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Process automation and digitalisation: Connected production
Are you lacking transparency in your production process?
If you don’t have an overview, a great deal of planning and management will be required for production.
Management
“It’s a shame that the transport times for external assignments weren’t taken into consideration for the project. If there were more transparency between departments, we could work much more efficiently.”
Work planning
“It would be handy if I finally had transparency about all available tools! I’ve got to finish documenting yesterday’s orders too – where was that bit of paper again?”
Machining
“Having to manually transfer tool pre-setting data into the machine every day costs me too much time and is prone to error. Can we not link up the existing systems?”
Quality assurance
“I’m always looking for the right measuring tool or need one that is being calibrated. For how much longer can it continue without a rapid exchange of information? Preferably directly between me and my colleagues.”
Today , tools must be one thing above all: simply connected.
Unfortunately, the search for a specific tool in industrial production still often resembles the infamous search for a needle in a haystack. The result is that processes are nowhere near as economical as they could be, and that affects employee satisfaction. Does this situation sound familiar?
What’s more, you as the person responsible for tooling are quite often confronted with a wild mess: there is unrecorded stock at the workstations and your work day generally becomes dominated not by finding, but rather searching for various tools, each one with multiple copies, and each with an unknown service life remaining. Keeping track of all this? No chance. You cannot ensure targeted and effective tool management like this. You need one thing above all: structure – based on information prepared from various sources and which is available at any time.
Connected Manufacturing supports you with serialisation concepts for (entire) tools, enables you to reduce sources of error and informs you about the storage location and status of tools in your production.
What a relief: finally a tool – usually consisting of several, individual parts – can be assembled correctly, quickly and without lengthy searching, which ultimately is best for the quality of the end product. With a unique marking, your tools can be identified easily and quickly anywhere and at any time. CAM programming is also much simpler as colleagues can use existing or available tool data. Don’t forget: you also have an overview of your jigs and clamping devices at all times. By precisely recording usage times, you can easily get the full service life out of your tools.
In production you, as the person responsible, benefit from having an overview of all tools that are available or in use. Reduce non-productive time by up to 30% – done!
We connect your production: Connected Manufacturing
Hoffmann Group Connected Manufacturing is the solution for confidently tackling issues like increasing workloads and a lack of skilled labour.
Your top advantages at a glance:
- Good. Better. Best: You decide when and how deep to enter into the world of networked and digital manufacturing. You benefit from optimised processes in every case.
- Well connected is well produced: comprehensive knowledge from the Connected Manufacturing solution gives you peace of mind for your production processes. You have round-the-clock transparency on all tools and their parameters, your machines and all upcoming orders.
- Quicker to learn means quicker to use: the Connected Manufacturing solution is intuitive to use.
- Less searching, more finding: the Connected Manufacturing solution makes time-consuming searches for tools, clamping devices, etc. a thing of the past – the storage location and stock levels are transparent at all times. Use the time you gain productively.
- Tool stock levels made transparent: what do I currently have in? Connected Manufacturing automatically takes you to the answer.
- Your personal knowledge database: store existing production solutions from the minds of your skilled workers in a central system. The simple way to ease the burden and ensure reproducible results.
- Make the most of capacity instead of overloading: the Connected Manufacturing solution helps ease the burden on your employees and lets them recognise and exploit potential for improvements. It has never been so simple and logical to plan how tools will be used and complete your work. Prevent chaos in your workflows and simulta?neously optimise capacity utilisation with clearly defined work steps.
- From tool parameters to machines that run themselves: make it easy for yourself and automatically transmit tool parameters to your machining centre. When you’re finished with your order, the touch of a finger is all that’s needed to document the production job.
- Quality at its best: significantly reduce the error rate in your company with the Connected Manufacturing solution. You no longer have to worry about manually entering parameters, transmitting data to the machine or syncing data.
