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Analytics and Actionable Insights: Arch’s web-based glob- al KPIs solution and its advanced analytics mapped the data to desired actions for target- ed use cases. Chosen KPIs were calculated for every SMT machine, line, area, and site. Steps 1 and 2 completed the
first major deliverable. The teams had collaborated to build an enterprise data broker and it had been successfully deployed within Flex’s global operations and pro- vided unprecedented visibility into operations. All data was stored in the cloud data lake to enable global utilization statis- tics, providing a real-time view of operations across different sites. This first ROI-generating
solution allowed Flex to continue funding and expanding its use of Arch. It repeated the data collec- tion playbook across additional factory machines in the SMT line, across mechanicals areas, and
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process used in metal additive manufacturing needs an inert atmosphere, because the materi- als used risk spontaneous igni- tion should they encounter oxy- gen. Until now, equipment had to be shut down and moved to a safe area for the saturated filters to be replaced by operatives wearing full PPE. With BOFA’s AM 400, fil-
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with quality testing machines. Mechanicals machines were inte- grated into its MES systems, pro- viding machine data automatical- ly and closing process loops.
ROI of Analytics Once the rollout of the global
KPIs program was completed, Flex could see the largest oppor- tunities for improvement across its hundreds of lines and thou- sands of machines. Next, Flex had to decide how to make improvements. Could the ArchFX system go beyond identifying problems to finding root causes and suggesting fixes?
Historically, companies that
identified problems using KPIs often failed to find solutions because only a small fraction of the available machine data was collected and made available globally. This reduced global data set would show that a line had low utilization but did not provide enough context to determine why. To identify the root causes or problems, an SMT expert would need to go back to the rich data stored on the machine and use their experience to figure out what happened. Arch took a different ap - proach. In addition to calculating
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top-level KPIs, ArchFX collected all the rich machine data that a human SMT expert would need to discover root causes. Arch col- lected millions of data points from each machine, providing detailed descriptions of every operation it performed and the errors it encountered. Now Arch had to determine
how to make use of this rich data. Could analytics automati- cally determine the top problems to address on an SMT line? Many previous attempts by others to feed rich data into generic “AI” or “machine learning” algorithms
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