Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The company was looking to quickly and efficiently improve the cycle time in a 2-robot cell that was welding car doors for the ID. Optimization-as-a-Service analyzes a customer’s existing digital twin, identifying bottleneck areas and recommending improvements based on the customer’s desired parameters. Buzz vehicle line.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

• CAM Assist Cycle Time Estimator, a new solution from CloudNC, uses AI to accelerate how quickly machinists can estimate new work will take - a bottleneck in any machine shop • By automating the estimation process for multiple parts simultaneously, Cycle Time Estimator allows CAM Assist users to turn around estimates for 3+2 axis parts up to 20 times (..)

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For shops with five-axis machining centers, this milling approach can yield time reductions of 90% or more and result in better surface finishes. What was once a 38-minute cycle time per pocket fell to just over 19 minutes, nearly a 50% improvement, all with just a small programming change. This is where the bottleneck happens.

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 10, 2023

You have been trying to point out bottlenecks to production on your machine. The video analytics point out the bottleneck. Low process efficiency—cycle time variability, too many interruptions. You are an operator on a production line. Vindicated. Proof in the data. The video is not for spying on employees.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 27, 2023

You have been trying to point out bottlenecks to production on your machine. The video analytics point out the bottleneck. You are an operator on a production line. Then engineers install streaming video pointing not just at a specific point on you or the machine but with wide enough scope to see the larger process. Vindicated.

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Bottleneck Assembly Line Cycle time Manufacturing 100

Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 15, 2025

Helping fabricators eliminate production bottlenecks in downstream operations is the focus of MC Machinerys newest FABTECH-revealed equipment and technology, including the FastBEND cell. www.aida-global.com The post Faster Cycle Times and Consistent Output Empower Fab Shops appeared first on Fabricating & Metalworking.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 15, 2025

Helping fabricators eliminate production bottlenecks in downstream operations is the focus of MC Machinerys newest FABTECH-revealed equipment and technology, including the FastBEND cell. www.aida-global.com The post Faster Cycle Times and Consistent Output Empower Fab Shops appeared first on Fabricating and Metalworking.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Ultimately, a face grooving attachment from Big Daishowa met KAM’s needs, enabling the manufacturer to reduce cycle times for the operation, extend tool life and improve repeatability. Machining these from billet would cause problems with both machining cycle times and tool life, so the parts are made additively instead.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2024

“With Flexxbotics and FOBA together, customers can optimize cycle time, expand capacity, and increase profit per part.” Enabling Flexxbotics robot-driven manufacturing with our FOBA laser marking and engraving equipment to enable autonomous process control can remove bottlenecks and deliver continuous operation.”

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 11, 2024

CloudNC – a manufacturing technology company – today announces the launch of CAM Assist Cycle Time Estimator, a new tool that accelerates the CNC machining estimation process and eliminates bottlenecks in the quoting workflow.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Bridging the gap between shop floor activity and operational systems is key to understanding actual cycle times, analyzing production runs, dialing in quoting, planning work, and identifying process bottlenecks. By the time the data is pulled together, it’s delayed, highly inaccurate, inflexible, and lacks context.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 15, 2025

By automating tasks like process planning, optimizing tool paths, and synchronizing multi-channel machines, this solution enhances efficiency and reduces cycle times. In addition, KUKA.Sim can program robots offline, analyze cycle times and expand with new functionalities through add-on modules.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JANUARY 8, 2024

Momentum for Realtime Robotics’ Optimization-as-a-Service Solution Continues, as Industry Leaders Use It to Identify and Eliminate Production Bottlenecks

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 26, 2023

Our dashboards are intuitive enough to note repeat bottlenecks and downtime causes and determine how those affect current machine utilisation. What can Alora provide for you and your shop? Visibility for anyone, everyone, and from anywhere Anyone on the shop floor can benefit from full visibility with Alora’s uncomplicated dashboards.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

While desktop machines operate at slower speeds compared to traditional industrial machines (with typical cycle times around 60 seconds), they offer impressive capabilities. A desktop Swiss lathe can eliminate this bottleneck by producing these components with precision, reducing both lead times and labor costs.

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ATS

MARCH 5, 2024

Takt time is the drumbeat of a production line. What distinguishes takt time from cycle time is that it’s set by the customer and not the process. In this sense, takt time creates the “pull” that characterizes lean manufacturing.

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Modern Machine Shop

JUNE 11, 2023

Much like how bear-resistant canisters are refined for better quality if they don’t pass certification testing, the machining processes and data tracking for these parts have been refined by Above All to remove production bottlenecks and reduce scrap rates.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Large Hybrid Steel Insert Solves Deformation, Dimensionality, Cycle Time Problems Linear AMS , a company that originated in 2003 as a toolmaker and molder, swiftly adopted metal additive manufacturing (AM) early in its journey. Read the full article.

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ATS

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s almost inevitable though that there will be a bottleneck process within the series of steps needed to make the product. Optimizing this bottleneck process so more can flow through increases output from the whole production operation and lets it run more efficiently. Production is optimized by optimizing the bottleneck process.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

MSI Mold Builders identified a bottleneck at the very start of its manufacturing process where it squared mold blocks and drilled and tapped eye-bolt holes to rapidly and safely move large blocks around the floor. It’s a multifaceted machine that solves our bottleneck and meets our needs. MSI Mold Builders.

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Modern Machine Shop

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The difficulty of finding people to operate its machines and the lengthy downtime waiting for the crane became bottlenecks for FIBA. While the actual cycle times for completing machining operations on the dome are similar between the Soraluce and the older machines, the time savings from eliminating the extra operation are significant.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The platform enables users to collect, manage, and analyze data from hundreds of factory devices, including ABB robots, to determine key performance indicators including cycle time and overall equipment efficiency (OEE). As a result, the customer has added the deployment of over 580 robots in its operations.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MAY 2, 2023

The WCP program tests and evaluates abrasives to compare product life, reduce cycle times and increase efficiencies. The WPS program focuses on providing industrial grinding and automated deburring solutions to alleviate bottlenecks in high-volume production operations.

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ATS

APRIL 5, 2024

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. This can mean focusing on downtime reduction, maintenance cost savings or bottleneck utilization improvement.

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21st Century Tech

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But when we ordered a sofa trundle bed we ran up against a supply chain bottleneck. Recently, the CBS news program, 60 Minutes , ran a piece describing the very problem with global supply chain bottlenecks in the port of Los Angeles that likely had befouled our sofabed purchase. We repainted. No problem. We then ordered it.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Real-time shopfloor data for machine utilization, tool life, production bottlenecks and so on require humans to interpret and act upon that data. Data-driven processes and human expertise are not opposing forces. When treated properly, data enhances the decision-making process, rather than replacing it.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Platino Linear also features Smart Cut and Gas Mixer Cut to optimize operations, reducing cycle times by up to 30%, while enhancing cutting quality. Its what do you build, what do you make, and what are your bottlenecks? The ECO-TOUCH Cut feature reduces gas consumption by up to 40%, which contributes to sustainability.

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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.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Traditional scheduling tools struggle to accommodate this level of variability, often leading to bottlenecks and delays. After all, new product profiles will not offer the historical data to dial in estimates such as cycle times. Unpredictable Shop Floor Dynamics: The manufacturing environment is inherently unpredictable.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

is to leverage additive manufacturing to reduce maintenance cycle times, curb supply chain backlogs, and place manufacturing capabilities at or near the point of need. The DoD has high interest to make more 3D printed parts, primarily due to the supply chain issues that have become a major bottleneck,” Bredael said.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 11, 2024

On the other hand, if production output needs to be increased, multiple industrial robots with faster cycle times should be the focus. Innovative solutions like this often contain multiple robots to minimize weld and cycle time, while maximizing output.

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MEM

APRIL 12, 2023

The Throughput+ option enables manufacturers to reduce measurement cycle times and eliminate inspection capacity bottlenecks to increase production volume.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 15, 2025

By automating tasks like process planning, optimizing tool paths, and synchronizing multi-channel machines, this solution enhances efficiency and reduces cycle times. In addition, KUKA.Sim can program robots offline, analyze cycle times and expand with new functionalities through add-on modules.

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MEM

JULY 20, 2023

Firstly, it automates inspection processes, eliminating the need for manual inspections and reducing cycle times, and can quickly detect defects, measure dimensions and perform quality checks, thereby expediting the production process.

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Automation Mag

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Costs for some components are still high because of limited industrial capacity or long manufacturing cycle times. Additionally, the report highlighted bottlenecks in the development of AI and software for robot manipulation (such as grasping objects) and interaction (taking voice commands from a person without training).

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 19, 2022

These products can help minimize bottlenecks in the operation. Through real-life testing, users can compare product life, cycle times, cutting rate, cutting index, material costs (initial wheel price) and labor costs between different wheels used on the same materials and same tools with the same parameters.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Platino Linear also features Smart Cut and Gas Mixer Cut to optimize operations, reducing cycle times by up to 30%, while enhancing cutting quality. Its what do you build, what do you make, and what are your bottlenecks? The ECO-TOUCH Cut feature reduces gas consumption by up to 40%, which contributes to sustainability.

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