Part 10 – Improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and increase OEE

What are your most expensive resources in manufacturing? For many, it will be people, equipment, and raw materials. To be more profitable, you need to make the most of these costly elements. In this Fit for the Future series article, we’ll be looking at how to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and increase OEE.

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Part 9 – Improve maintenance performance with Augmented Reality

Maintenance is an essential part of any operation. While figuring out when to do maintenance is the purview of smart systems such as Predictive Maintenance, the performance of that maintenance is the responsibility of your engineers. It is here that inconsistencies can appear, be that engineer experience, training, or availability, and begin to have a real effect on your operational performance. So, how can you support your maintenance teams in completing vital work?

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Part 8 – Using Predictive Maintenance to reduce unplanned downtime

Return on investment is the goal of any effort aimed at improving profitability. With the ‘Fit for the Future’ series so far, we’ve detailed the steps to take in achieving a digital transformation in manufacturing and with the topic of this article we’ll begin to explore the profitable outcomes available to a modern, competitive operation; specifically predictive maintenance.

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Part 7 – Improve visibility & aggregation through IIoT

In the last article of the ‘Fit for the Future’ series, we looked at the benefits of implementing a data historian to provide a repository of actionable information you can leverage to develop a greater awareness of your operation and undertake intelligent planning and optimisation. This month, we’re looking at the ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ (IIoT) which offers the opportunity to kick-start digital transformation through increased connectivity, improved visibility and greater operational efficiency.

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