7 production data gaps that are slowing down manufacturing engineers
How to improve defect detection on your assembly line, starting with these 7 common tasks
Regardless of where your plant lies on the digital transformation scale, your most essential tool for achieving practical and profitable change is your production data. Below, we look at 7 common tasks required on nearly any assembly line and how you can use your production data to do them better and more efficiently, achieving new levels of product quality and profitability.
How to use process monitoring to catch early signs of machine wear affecting product quality
Manufacturing analytics: So you’re collecting data, but can you use it in a recall?
It’s when manufacturers are faced with a recall or warranty claim that they realize data collection alone has little value if they can’t easily access and analyze it. Learn how we helped one manufacturer of agricultural machinery use their data to improve their root cause analysis time from weeks to minutes!
Choosing the right camera for your vision inspection
Are your machine vision needs on the production line better served with a smart camera, or a “dumb,” more basic one? Before you make the investment, consider these factors that can dictate which option is better for a given situation.
How the network edge can help your plant or industrial operation optimize cloud resources
Many manufacturing and industrial facilities have chosen to recruit capacity from a public cloud service provider to help them manage their data. However, while the cloud is a relatively cost effective, simple to manage, and scalable solution to suit your needs, it can also create some other challenges. Learn more.
Integrators Part I: Reduce your risk, be on time and budget
Machine builders are always struggling to stay on budget, on schedule and on spec with their manufacturer customers. Joe Ventimiglio discusses how incorporating the data-driven quality management of Industry 4.0 into their builds can save them a lot of grief.
Driving quality, traceability for medical device batch manufacturing
In process testing and digital waveform analysis isn’t only for discrete manufacturing where each part is serialized. Ron Pawulski explores how it can also be used to improve yield and quality control in pharmaceutical and medical device batch manufacturing.
The Repair Bay, Part 3: A day in the life
Concluding our three-part series, Patrick Chabot looks at how individuals from the plant floor to the office engage with and benefit from a repair bay data analytics system that’s integrated with the rest of the data collection and analysis from the production line.