Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

With 300 functions and more than 30 apps, CELOS X perience offers consistency across all DMG MORI control variants which will also be usable for third-party providers in the future, making it possible for the first time to map entire manufacturing processes end-to-end in a standardized solution. Vibration signature analysis.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Automation Value chain Function 52

Cisco Industrial Automation

MAY 3, 2022

How will work processes change? Good business cases for small-loT manufacturers include integrated data models, optimizing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and mobile apps for workers that give them a pulse on production. Who will benefit? How will you measure success?

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 238

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Manufacturing Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 238

Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 2, 2023

BIC’s primary business drivers for digitalization and transformation are the standardization of production processes and integration across machines, people, and business layers. The benefits of this project include improved inventory control, waste reduction, reduced error from manual processing, and overall equipment efficiency (OEE).

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) 147

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Smart manufacturing Automation Function 147

Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 26, 2022

As part of this research, IoT Analytics surveyed 500 decision-makers working in discrete, hybrid, or process manufacturing in April and May 2022 and conducted in-depth interviews with a subset of them. Most important operational KPI: Increase in OEE. All the top five manufacturing KPIs are related to operational goals.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 130

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Supply Chain Benchmarking Manufacturing 130

Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Complex part production becomes more efficient with Sandvik Coromant’s ATC-enabled turning center, streamlining the manufacturing process. In complex part production, the time-consuming process of manual tool changes often results in low utilization of turning centers. ATC also offers significant sustainability benefits.

Automation 52

Automation Robotics Robotics Manufacturing 52

Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 14, 2023

All three copilots contextualize, process, and analyze data from various manufacturing sources. It interacts across all relevant data sources for critical asset processes, delivering targeted user assistance, recommends actions, and forecasts plant performance through contextual, proactive insights and automated workflows.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 147

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Bottleneck Digital manufacturing Sourcing 147

Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Wintriss Controls Group has introduced its economical and easy-to-use Tracker hardware solution for its ShopFloorConnect OEE and Production Tracking Software. The new, cost-effective device is designed to simplify and maximize data collection, while minimizing operator involvement.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Grantek created a solution for SiO2 Materials Science , which was scaling up its production process and also investing in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. And the site had no OEE system or production dashboards that would indicate to management how the facility would operate.

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 94

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Automation 94

ATS

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Share Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a practical and effective means of raising Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). As TPM reduces breakdowns and accidents, it reduces waste, increases capacity and improves metrics such as OEE. Tangible benefits include: Higher OEE: Fewer unplanned breakdowns increase effective capacity.

Lean manufacturing 52

Lean manufacturing Six Sigma Manufacturing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 52

MEM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Balluff’s Guided Changeover Solution Increases Overall Equipment Effectiveness (0EE) : Changeover processes on production equipment can take a lot of time, especially if multiple settings and pieces of equipment need to be changed by the operators or maintenance crew. So how does it all work?

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 98

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Smart manufacturing Automation Function 98

ATS

MARCH 25, 2025

While the primary goal in maintenance strategy is to keep machines running, it also impacts larger corporate objectives such as lean manufacturing initiatives or overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). For example, lean processes focus on reducing waste. Credibility also plays a critical role.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 52

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Lean manufacturing Automation Robotics 52

Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 18, 2023

With this data on the shop floor, Pioneer Service can easily calculate and keep track of its overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) using various uptime, quoted time and actual cycle time statistics to calculate how well the shop is performing. The typical industry OEE figure is around 60% , while a suitable long-term goal is closer to 85%.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 98

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Aerospace Bottleneck Cycle time 98

Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Getting new workers up to speed quickly is a difficult process. AI can gather information about the training processes and tailor that information to help specific workers for their jobs. Utilize and automate onboarding and training processes to help get workers skilled and operational faster to offset a rapidly churning workforce.

Artificial Intelligence 98

Artificial Intelligence Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Beverage Manufacturing 98

Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Our resistance welding process produces inconsistent results: Most of the welds are good, but we get too many weak welds that require rework or cause scrap down the line. A1: Process consistency is a common issue in resistance welding. What process parameters can be measured by a weld monitor? Monitors and checkers.

Artificial Intelligence 98

Artificial Intelligence Process control Sourcing Fit 98

ATS

MAY 14, 2025

Heijunka fundamentals Heijunka isnt a made-up word; its a foundational Lean concept that supports Just-In-Time production by balancing workload across processes. It works by smoothing out the peaks and valleys in production demand, creating a more predictable production process.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Lean manufacturing 40

Control Engineering

JUNE 6, 2023

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) insights OEE helps manufacturers determine how effective productivity is for equipment, line or an operation. OEE measures availability, performance and quality and creates a calculation manufacturers can use to determine its past performance as well as its performance against like systems.

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Automation Form Manufacturing 52

Factory Worx

MAY 19, 2022

How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry? Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the go-to metric for food manufacturing facilities to recognise losses and benchmarking advancement toward improving throughput performance. Why OEE Is Critical for Food Industry. OEE in food industry: Four Benefits.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 52

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Manufacturing Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 52

Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Digital transformation is an ongoing process, so we can expect to see this year’s breakthrough trends continuing to shape society into next year. If software development has sometimes felt like digging with a shovel, the introduction of AI is like bringing two horses and a plow to the process.

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Robotics Robotics Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Logistics 138

Mold Making Technology

MAY 22, 2025

A: I currently have 100 molds equipped with digital systems that track various information, including cycle time, cycle count, process overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), water temperatures and melt pressures/temperatures. A: Sustainability, in my view, centers around the plastic components produced by molding processes.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 80

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Cycle time Sourcing 80

Control Engineering

JUNE 2, 2023

These tools are universal and can be leveraged across a variety of processes and systems. The alarm analysis is focused on creating a better understanding of what drives alarms during the process. Both allow for historical comparisons to see if things are getting better or worse on the process over time.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 105

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Manufacturing 105

Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 22, 2024

Digital transformation is an ongoing process so we can expect to see this year’s breakthrough trends continuing to shape society into next year. If software development has sometimes felt like digging with a shovel, the introduction of AI is like bringing two horses and a plough to the process.

Robotics 130

Robotics Robotics Automation Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 130

Control Engineering

AUGUST 21, 2022

There is so much data in the manufacturing process it is often overlooked. While this is certainly true, many steps of the production process generate valuable data as a byproduct. Is your process producing more scrap than you want? Do you need a real-time dashboard to track overall equipment efficiency (OEE)?

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 98

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Manufacturing Industry 4.0 98

MEM

JANUARY 23, 2023

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is seen by the majority of manufacturers as the gold standard in productivity monitoring, taking into account performance, availability and quality. OEE identifies the percentage of manufacturing time that is productive. methods can bring. FourJaw 2.1 FourJaw 2.1

Industry 4.0 52

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Lean manufacturing 52

Control Engineering

MARCH 27, 2023

While manufacturing is more flexible, traceability still depends on the mark, read, verify and communicate (MVRC) model to help ensure the traceability process is a smooth one. Manufacturers are often dealing with marking large numbers of parts and components and reading these markings at every key step in the manufacturing process.

Automation 98

Automation Supply Chain Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Industry 4.0 98

ATS

OCTOBER 23, 2024

TEEP has similarities with OEE, but is less widely known and used. Like Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), TEEP includes losses resulting from machines running at less than 100% of full speed, and losses due to quality problems. For investigating those though, OEE is sufficient. This blog starts out by asking, what is TEEP?

Bottleneck 52

Bottleneck Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Manufacturing 52

ATS

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Complex, often energy-intensive, processes and sophisticated machinery bring hazards to manage and regulations to satisfy. Capacity Effective machinery maintenance is essential for high levels of OEE. This results in increased operational efficiency and greater sustainability.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Compliance Function Form 52

Modern Machine Shop

MAY 30, 2023

Cutting Through Process Complexity Eric Ostini, GF Machining ’s head of Business Development, is well aware of the staffing issues plaguing the US machining industry. Force modules enable a “push to escape” function for both safety and process security in the event of unexpected obstacles.

Automation 98

Automation Robotics Robotics Fit 98

Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In the year ahead, we expect to see generative AI: performing guided machine maintenance for new workers (and in the process, helping new workers to upskill). The more assets measured, the more efficient a plant runs which impacts cost, inventory and OEE targets – it’s a win/win.

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Form Automation 130

Control Engineering

JANUARY 8, 2023

In one example, Catania Oils, partnering with a system integrator, used a HMI/SCADA suite along with a plant data historian to improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and key performance indicators (KPIs). The key to improving operations was to focus the right resources on the actual problems and to use OEE for gaining insight.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 52

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Supply Chain Compliance Manufacturing 52

Modern Machine Shop

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

To avoid scrap, the company makes test parts out of aluminum to prove out machining processes and programs before embarking on a beryllium version. And despite being a high-mix, low-volume job shop with little ability to leverage traditional statistical process control, WessDel also found these other aspects of Harmoni incredibly useful.

Revision control 105

Revision control Made-to-spec Process control Automation 105

Factory Worx

JULY 26, 2022

Digital transformation in manufacturing comprises integrating digital technologies into products and processes to increase manufacturing quality and efficiency. Improved Processes Manufacturing operations could be revolutionised by digital transformation. How does OEE Help in the Food Manufacturing Industry? Categories.

Industry 4.0 105

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing 105

Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The partnership is set to provide manufacturers with fast and easy-to-use tools for improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and optimizing machine performance. With actionable insights from combined human and machine sources, manufacturers are empowered to optimize production processes, reduce downtime and boost revenue generation.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 52

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Sourcing 52

i4.0 today

AUGUST 14, 2024

The partnership is set to provide manufacturers with fast and easy-to-use tools for improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and optimizing machine performance. With actionable insights from combined human and machine sources, manufacturers are empowered to optimize production processes , reduce downtime and boost revenue generation.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) 52

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Sourcing 52

Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

With 300 functions and more than 30 apps, CELOS X perience offers consistency across all DMG MORI control variants which will also be usable for third-party providers in the future, making it possible for the first time to map entire manufacturing processes end-to-end in a standardized solution. Vibration signature analysis.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Automation Value chain Function 52

Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

Key features of the AC Line include: Precision Automation: The AC Lines precision-engineered automation ensures consistent and reliable changeovers, eliminating human error and optimizing machining processes. In complex part production, the time-consuming process of manual tool changes often results in low utilization of turning centers.

Robotics 52

Robotics Robotics Automation Smart manufacturing 52

ATS

MARCH 26, 2024

Share In tire manufacturing, quality and consistency are achieved by monitoring and controlling key manufacturing process parameters. What’s more, having instrumented the processes, these tire manufacturing sensors can also support preventive maintenance. The problem is that it creates downtime, which eats into OEE.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Beverage Process control 52

ATS

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These strategies reduce the occurrence of unplanned, and very disruptive, downtime, helping raise OEE and improve operational efficiency. Field service management (FSM) refers to the process of coordinating field operations. Reactive maintenance (i.e., What is field service management?

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Automation Form 52