and even cloud-based solutions, more shops are seeing the advantages of leveraging real-time machining and tooling data from the shop floor.
The Digital Factory Advantage “There is a global move toward smart manufacturing,” said Mohamed Abuali, CEO of Forcam USA (Cincinnati, OH). “As we are based out of Europe, there is the Industry 4.0 movement that’s called Fourth Industrial Revolu- tion. In the US, some people have been pushing Digital Manufacturing.” Working with the Digital Manufac- turing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII; Chicago), Forcam is developing new shop-floor management solu- tions with Lockheed Martin, and the company’s Forcam Force shop-floor data management software systems are installed at many large companies, including GKN Aerospace (Irving, TX). Manufacturers are exploring this tech- nology in many ways, Abuali said, citing Lockheed’s Digital Thread program. Forcam will hold its second Smart Fac- tory World Symposium on June 2 at the DMDII’s headquarters in Chicago. “Lockheed’s direction in shop floor management is what they call Digital Tapestry or the Digital Thread,” Abuali said. This means the digitization of machine, part and labor efficiency, he said. “Those are the key elements of the shop floor that make up the Digital Tapestry, and then they define what’s like the DNA of the factory. The DNA they call the Digital Thread. “Imagine every part coming off the
shop floor, every part has a DNA, or the genealogy of that part. You could easily trace back what happened to the part during the process on every operation by every person who touched that part and on every machine where that part has been produced.”
Several elements are key to shop-floor management, including the machines or assets, the parts being produced on the machines, and the communications of machines and the machine operator, he added. “A critical element is the operator
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