Introduction Industry professionals responsible for managing assets are faced with numerous challenges in designing cost-effective maintenance strategies for equipment. Intelligent approaches for identifying optimal processes and systems for managing assets ideally combine data-driven modeling of known degradation mechanisms with field…
When you think of the concept of a digital twin, the first thing that may come to mind is something like the movie Transcendence, where Johnny Depp’s character Dr. Will Caster develops an AI so powerful he transfers his consciousness…
The digital twin has long since established itself in industry, where it’s revolutionizing processes along the entire value chain. As a virtual representation of a product, production process, or performance, it enables the individual process stages to be seamlessly linked.…
Supply chain visibility starts with the right control tower architecture. Visibility. Of course that’s what you want. We all want it. After all, how can you run a supply chain without it? Changes in demand, late shipments, quality issues, point…
From cobots to augmented reality, new technologies are enhancing rather than replacing factory floor workers, empowering them to shift time and energy to more value-added work. Tucked within the emerging technology enclave in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a little-known company putting…
With ever-growing customer expectations of fast, accurate service, consumers increasingly want to know where products they have ordered online are, as well as what items are available at a particular store, at any given point in time. With the demand…
Many manufacturing software companies claim they offer visibility and control, but gaps in their functionality can leave an unsuspecting customer scrambling to fill the holes. MES vendors love to claim their software offers, “manufacturing visibility and control.” It sounds good,…
Never has this adage been more true than with Shop Floor Data Collection. What’s common today is that manufacturers are pulling lots of data from lots of different sources, but they are rarely using it effectively. Putting systems in place…
Source: https://www.cati.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-show-sheet-metal-bend-lines-in-a-drawing/ A customer had recently called in looking for a way to show his Bend Lines on the drawing of his sheet metal parts and while some people may say the answer is simple there are several ways to…
There’s a funny thing about digital tools that use Cartesian coordinate and movement systems — these are tools that operate in three-dimensional space. Though digital tools may look different, they have a lot in common. Digital tools in this group…
