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Significant benefits are already achievable,
with the risk of non-added value investment
eliminated—for example, in middleware and
locked proprietary solutions. It is altogether
great support for a manufacturing business
strategy for success as we come to terms with
increased global challenges, promoting flexi-
ble, sustainable, environmentally responsible,
and profitable local manufacturing. SMT007
Michael Ford is the senior director
of emerging industry strategy for
Aegis Software. To read past
columns or contact Ford, click here.
smart factory shopping budget, justified as
being of direct contribution to manufacturing,
with an expectation that actual defect rates
become very close to zero over a reasonable
period.
If we are to truly embrace the potential of
smart factories, we need to be able to utilize
the latest revolutionary steps forward in tech-
nology that the industry has seen with stan-
dards-driven IIoT data exchange in the form of
CFX, for instance, which virtually eliminate the
costs of data acquisition. The use of IIoT-based
machine-learning, closed-loop line learning—
as well as contextualization of big data at the
factory layer through the use of IIoT-driven
MES solutions based on built-in ontology—are
all things that are available now.
by Sagi Reuven
SIEMENS DIGITAL INDUSTRIES
I have previously written about top-
ics related mostly to the shop floor, but
my last column swam upstream and
covered design for manufacturing. To make this list whole,
I need to cover the phase between design to manufactur-
ing: process engineering or simply
new product introduction (NPI).
In this column, I will describe why
this is an important phase and how
process engineers can make a big
difference. In my view, both terms
are too simple to describe this phase.
I would also like to focus on the dol-
lar sign—the bill of materials (BOM).
Approximately 75% of the product
cost is just the parts on the BOM.
To read the full column, click here.
Sagi Reuven is a business devel-
opment manager for the electron-
ics industry, Siemens Digital Industries. Download your
free copy of the book The Printed Circuit Assembler's
Guide to… Advanced Manufacturing in the Digital Age from
Mentor, a Siemens Business, and visit I-007eBooks.
com for other free, educational titles. You can also view
Siemens' free, 12-part, on-demand webinar series "Imple-
menting Digital Twin Best Practices From Design Through
Manufacturing."
Lean Digital Thread:
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