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- At volume, some units will fail. What decides whether that becomes a bad quarter or the end of the business is not the failure itself. It is whether the manufacturer can produce evidence of how each unit was built.
- Walk through any factory and you’ll see machines whirring, parts moving, people working. It all looks like a well-oiled machine — until you dig deeper. That’s when you uncover the hidden complexity of modern assembly lines. And it’s often the reason digital transformation projects fail.
- Whenever news of a vehicle recall breaks, it serves as a potent reminder of a persistent challenge within the automotive industry: ensuring the integrity of every single bolted joint.
- 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.
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