Manufacturing today is revolutionized. At one point in time, a standardized product, steady demand, and far-reaching supply chains were sufficient for the manufacturing industry to not just survive, but also grow. These parameters granted an adequate market and business competence.
However, the picture today is not so simple. Advanced manufacturing and distribution patterns require more versatility in every parameter- be it the product, demand, distribution, and supply chain management. So, how is this so-called versatility defined and drawn in?
The answer is a straight one- a more resilient technological infrastructure! Since the Industrial Revolution, technology has witnessed a unidirectional boom of demand and consumption patterns, too, uphold rising figures. This scenario has undoubtedly changed. The rate of requiring technology in manufacturing has drastically magnified.
Effects caused by technology-driven manufacturing
A deep-felt and penetrating effect on the ability and efficiency of manufacturing & distribution has occurred due to dynamic technological advancements. Extending technical implementations and technology-based methods into manufacturing and distribution models, order fulfillment, etc., has served businesses to manifest vital reforms to performance, workflow, and eventually, to the grass-root level workmanship.
The current global marketplace experiences increased connectivity, and customer tastes stir every minute. Demand is more unpredictable, stimulating more assorted products, quicker and more agile product cycles, and a faster go to market.
Here are some of the pre-eminent manufacturing technologies that can keep your business a tad step ahead of the others in the game.
Process Automation
Automating processes in manufacturing can lead the way to increase quality promptly. Manufacturers use digital technologies that append process automation, eliminate errors and outages caused due to tedious and monotonous manual entries.
The collected information is automatically transferred to a system that you can audit and access far more easily. A rise in quality, effectiveness, and lower downtime lets you center on other business operations to expand their progress.
Analytics & Reporting
When harnessed well, data drives critical insights, independent decision making, and foresight performance to spur exceptional proficiency standards. Analytics screen out essential data purposes, correlate them, and then confer reports in an actionable way. Analytics and Reporting are evolving into more effective manufacturing tools by the day and are crucial to managing a world heading towards Big Data. Analytics and manufacturing intelligence expedite machine learning that can create determined steps and procedures and be an indispensable element of modern manufacturing.
Industrial Internet of Things
Last-mile connectivity and networking remit expert insights, relevant data, and the expertise to deliver secure and sound decisions. IIoT is a suave technology that can fundamentally alter your ways of designing, planning, and manufacturing products. This is an innovation that typically connects sensors, smart gadgets, Internet-enabled devices, and machine learning into the business unit. IIoT fundamentally renders data to upgrade manufacturing machinery and performance. Examples of this are wearables, doubles, smart glasses, etc. that help shop floor directors perceive production data passively. IIoT is now building a colossal transformation in how flourishing manufacturers distinguish themselves from their counterparts.
Use Case: Doubles and Virtual Supervision
Doubles are service robots that assist in virtual supervision. This is a perfect technology that’s full-time compatible with the strains of distance brought about by the pandemic. Organizations hunkered down due to social distancing and work from home has become the new norm.
Also, when separate new branch units are devised, staying afloat at each unit to conduct holistic supervision creates a huge load of administrative anomalies and disconnection. The Doubles here becomes the needed savior. So, what are the features that it renders and how is this beneficial to manufacturing?
Corporate locations with separate operating units can easily make use of the Doubles robots technology, which makes it convenient to oversee the unit performance and operations from a distance far away. The robot is capable of conducting star checks, shop floor samples, site and stock visits at scheduled periods and dates.
Double robots also let you lessen your travel time and frequency now that real-time monitoring and tracking are ever-enabled. At units where the management isn’t physically present, this robot can facilitate a quick response system to deliver a real connected conversation which is different from a phone call. It’s a much more personal interaction when you can look eye-to-eye.
Also, there is scope for modality usage. You may use a smartphone, a tablet, an iPad, etc., from almost anywhere at any time without having to wait to go through the unit secretary and other personnel.
It’s on the whole, a great investment especially when there are expensive robotic systems used in manufacturing. This one has sure shot a cost-effective, cost-reducing in fact, to be considered. The return on the investment (ROI) is huge that rolls out significant results in terms of boosting efficiency, productivity, operations control, monitoring and tracking.
Shoot your technological manufacturing today with VLC Solutions. Committed to delivering prudent solutions that leverage technology to meet business goals, our people are the best in the business, with far-reaching consulting experience, exceptional technical skills, and a healthy business perspective.
