FACTORIES & WAREHOUSING
Using sophisticated metrology software like PC-DMIS, your quality engineers can create, test and optimise comprehensive measurement routines entirely offline. This strategy ensures that physical
machines remain dedicated to active inspection. It allows you to simulate paths to prevent costly collisions, reduce machine downtime and guarantee that when a new shift begins, the CMM is immediately ready to run flawlessly. By separating the programming process from the physical equipment, you eliminate bottlenecks and maintain a continuous flow of production.
TRACKING OEE AND MACHINE HEALTH Running unattended systems requires real- time visibility into machine performance, which is something that becomes increasingly to maintain as operations scale and shifts change hands without overlap. This is where tracking Overall Equipment
Effectiveness (OEE) becomes a critical component of resilient manufacturing. Dedicated condition monitoring software can connect to measuring systems and machine tools to track OEE, manage program progress and evaluate operating states continuously. The goal is straightforward: give quality managers enough visibility to catch problems before they compound.
Predictive maintenance capabilities, such
as flagging potential outages and adjusting service intervals based on actual usage patterns, represent a maturation of how manufacturers think about equipment health. Rather than scheduling maintenance around the calendar, teams can respond to what the data actually shows.
BUILDING QUALITY SYSTEMS THAT LAST The case for continuous quality operations ultimately comes down to where bottlenecks form and what they cost. When inspection can only happen during staffed hours, production doesn’t wait. It accumulates risk. Scrap rates climb, yield data lags and by the time a defect pattern is identified, it has already run through multiple shifts. Addressing that gap requires treating
quality infrastructure with the same rigor applied to production equipment. Shop floor CMMs, offline programming and OEE monitoring each solve a discrete piece of the problem, but their real value emerges when they’re designed as an integrated system from the outset, not bolted together after the fact. Manufacturers who get this right don’t just
reduce inspection backlogs. They remove quality as a constraint on throughput entirely, and that changes the economics of running a 24-hour operation in a fundamental way.
Hexagon
www.hexagon.com
TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION
ADVERTORIALS The Heat is on says Hart
The high-speed door is associated with protecting buildings and the manufacturing/storage activities within, says Doug Hart, chairman, Hart Door Systems. However, the c urrent mega climate event, which, at the time of writing, is delivering very high temperatures across Europe and is causing unheard of challenges for industry, the main one being high temperatures in manufacturing and storage areas.
Hart’s highspeed door brand, Speedor, is in daily use across significant areas of industry. As
Speedors help to maintain temperatures within a building so too Speedors can be used to protect buildings from the in-flow of very warm air.
Maintaining temperatures within a building is essential even if faced by external weather issues
be they extreme cold or heat challenges. The key is to reduce the inflow of very warm air and it’s the speed of Speedor which helps to reduce that.
How long this intense heatwave continues but with Autumn approaching there is some hope that
a return to our ‘normal’ climate is not too far away. Author: J Chris Dobson
Hart Door Systems
info@hartdoors.com
https://www.hartdoors.com/
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