Unique opportunity to test…almost Zero cost to try!
Manufacturing plants face multiple internal and external demands, many moving parts and significant number of decisions to make, all at the same time, while Quality product, more capacity and increased efficiency is expected every time. Sounds familiar?
In a Production line alone, Process and Machine operation requires huge amount of data, insights, controls and adjustments to operate. I remember my TPM days trying to move the time between stops/failure from minutes to hours and the immense amount of time, resources and training involved in the process. And technology was not friendly to use or easy to implement, so significant manual and semi-automatic interventions were required, and we still had challenges to get to the right conditions to deliver expected results and committed goals.
Good news is that in the last 3-4 years breakthrough technology has become available, specifically to step change process and machine health and reap the benefits in record time (Augury’s AI-Insights solution is a great example). However, a change in approach and in mindset is necessary.
A best practice I have seen in the industry, these days, about this new technology is a “quick and dirty” pilot. Different from previous technologies and improvement techniques, this one has a cost of entry close to Zero…no need to stop the line, no training required, no internal system needed, no capital or big expense and very little of plant people involvement. Sensors are installed externally, data is sent via Wifi, and in 2-3 weeks you receive actionable insights in your mobile…Close to 100% accuracy.
If it works for you, you pay it from your savings (5-7 ROI) and step change your operation. And if it doesn’t, you just retire the sensors and move on. Have you tried this approach already? How did it work for you?