Manufacturing
Use Cases
Automate product testing and quality assurance
Product testing and QA accelerates product quality assurance testing by optimising the tests and/or combinations of tests that cause products, components, suppliers, and contract manufacturers to fail more quickly.
Deploy robots to replace human staff
Robotics can automate many route activities that typically require human actions. This is inevitably a very broad use case and the requirements will vary - from reducing potential physical risk to humans, to maximise process uptime or simply to reduce variable costs. These will drive different configurations of project.
Optimise factory throughput management with better resource planning
Providing more relevant data so finance, operations, and supply chain teams can better manage factory and demand-side constraints.
Optimise manufacturing process in real time so as to determine where to dedicate resources to reduce bottlenecks and cycle time
Optimise manufacturing process in real time—determine where to dedicate resources to reduce bottlenecks and cycle time. This requires building clear data-led models, often with IoT input and can lead to significant savings - although getting it wrong can be disastrous.
Optimise run speeds on key equipment
With a complex modeling of the manufacturing system linked to supply chain and demand forecasts, modelling can help determine the optimum run speed and throughput
Predict potential quality issues with products through visual recognition
Use technologies, such as machine vision, to better detect quality control issues during key processes - vegetable sortign for quality for example. This will potentially help generate a better understanding of which internal processes, workflows and factor contribute most and least to meeting quality objectives.