We mentioned the development of manufacturing in the previous article. When we get back to the future of manufacturing, the human factor comes in play.
A leading manufacturing company was aware that improvements were necessary. It wanted to take advantage of digital technologies, particularly advanced analytics.
The company started by getting specialists to gather data from the most important production equipment. They discovered many considerable gaps in basic manufacturing maintenance. That was the reason for the piece of machinery's frequent downtime.
Production quality was uneven and even the overall efficiency wasn’t as good as the efficiency achieved by their competitors. Without finding solution for these basic issues, any new technology added would just be a waste of money.
