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The Shift Toward Smarter Shops: Real-World Stories of Data-Driven Manufacturing

Modern Machine Shop

These automated guided vehicles (AGVs) at DMG MORI’s assembly plant in Tortona, Italy, will soon serve as active transport systems to guide DMG MORI’s universal turning centers through different stages of the assembly process.

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MES and ERP Data Integration

ATS

Share Manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools both play critical roles in production line performance. While MES/ERP integration offers both immediate and long-term benefits, several challenges are common during the process. First is data formatting.

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Cloud-Based System Designed for Mold Asset Management

Mold Making Technology

Source | Progressive Components Progressive Components presents ProFile v4, a cloud-based system for mold monitoring and asset management. Progressive proports several benefits to using the ProFile system. The system also sends automated alerts to the user to remind them to schedule preventive maintenance on their machines.

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Updated Control, Cooling Water Distribution, Electromechanical Ejector and Injection

Mold Making Technology

This is particularly beneficial for short cycle times and high dosing quantities. Source | Boy Machines Boy is also introducing a manufacturing cell based on its LR5. Boy also demonstrates its operational data acquisition (ODA) system.

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Case Study: Lockheed Martin’s Flight to Perfect Quality

iBASEt

For example, Lockheed Martin implemented iBASEt’s Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to streamline and remove paperbased procedures on the shopfloor. Performance and quality data are collected in real-time as work is performed. percent delivered quality level and 100 percent on- time delivery level.

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Machine Data Collection in Manufacturing

ATS

It includes machine production data such as quantities processed, cycle times achieved, yields or measurement and other inspection results. It can also cover operational information such as run time and down time. Log data This type of data quantifies what the machine has done and is often retained on a PLC or in PCs.

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How to get started with industrial data analytics

Control Engineering

It’s all of the back-end systems and in the front-end systems inside an operational technology (OT) stack. Inside a facility, the different data sources are included in the things that enable analytics. The place to start is in the manufacturing facility, specifically in the operational technology (OT) stack.