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- That is the big question our innovations director, Yanesh Naidoo, attempts to answer as he dives into some of the possibilities for modern manufacturing. In this article, he shares not just hypothetical, science-fiction scenarios but real solutions and actual use cases that are starting to change the way that production facilities operate in the age of AI.
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- In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, minor oversights can trigger major crises. As Benjamin Franklin cautioned, ‘A small leak will sink a great ship.’ In modern manufacturing, these leaks occur in the form of missed maintenance, overlooked safety checks, and untracked procedures – leading to costly operational failures.
- If only buying a production line were as simple as clicking ‘add to cart’. When your business is investing millions of euros or dollars on an assembly system that will serve as the heart of your manufacturing facility for the next five to seven years, you need to choose your service provider very carefully.
- As we head into a new year, it’s time to clean house and explore new ways of making your manufacturing processes smarter, leaner, and more efficient.
- For a walking example of digital sceptic turned digital ambassador, we chatted to Jaco Bezuidenhout, workshop manager at Mertech Marine. After implementing ODIN Checkpoint, an operational task management app, an initially reluctant Jaco saw the radical time-saving efficiencies it brought to his working day.
- In pursuit of cost reduction and short-term profit, many manufacturing and technology companies make a critical misstep: they outsource the very functions that underpin their core value proposition.
- For the past century or so, modern manufacturing has been guided largely by Lean and Six Sigma principles. But is that all about to change with the rise of the digital factory?
