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Generative AI Industrial Copilots to Deliver Contextual Intelligence

Gary Mintchell

Digital Manufacturing Copilot streamlines and strengthens manufacturing operations by seamlessly tying workflow, production, and asset data together to unveil invaluable production process optimization and bottleneck prevention insights.

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Machine Monitoring Enhances a Mold Builder's Automation Strategy

Mold Making Technology

By monitoring machine performance, communicating key data points and analyzing data, a company can identify bottlenecks, downtime and other issues, like lengthy overrides, that may be slowing down operations.

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EAC's IoT Platform Connects Shop Floor With Actionable Data

Modern Machine Shop

Teams can highlight problematic situations, identify trends and bottlenecks, as well as observe sequential events. View real-time data KPIs such as availability, performance, quality, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and other critical metrics in user-friendly visual dashboards with filters and drill-downs.

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Takt Time in Manufacturing

ATS

When setting up a new production line: The cycle time of the bottleneck operation must be at least equal to the takt time. For planning maintenance activities: Preventive maintenance should be focused on the bottleneck operation to avoid breakdowns eating into available time.

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Make your factory more efficient, sustainable and profitable with machine monitoring

MEM

Connecting manufacturing equipment to machine monitoring software such as FourJaw’s productivity improvement software improves production visibility in real-time, providing key productivity measures such as utilisation and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). FourJaw 2.1

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Understanding Total Effective Equipment Performance (TEEP)

ATS

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. Identifying bottlenecks Bottlenecks are one of the biggest causes of low equipment utilization.

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Reinventing a Precision Shop With a Data-Driven Mindset

Modern Machine Shop

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.