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The Journey towards autonomous manufacturing Dr. Michael Grant, CTO, DataProphet
As data are increasingly aggregated across manufacturing lines, the reality of autonomous lines is likely to be reached in the next five years. Here’s a look at what a typical journey towards autonomous manufacturing looks like and best practices for how manufacturers can begin to achieve this.
Within the industrial world, leaders are defining their journey to autonomous manufacturing. Manufacturers are focusing on digitization strategies that will help to drive efficiency across their plants.
When reflecting on the concepts of Industry 4.0, we need to consider where production systems have come from and the changes that have been made over time to improve throughput and efficiency. Production improvement starts with robotic process automation (RPA), where you take a repetitive process and apply some form of mechanization to improve the throughput rate. The interesting thing here is that it doesn’t improve the processes quality, but does make it less variable—simply because the process
When reflecting on the concepts of Industry 4.0, consider where production systems came from and the changes made to improve throughput and efficiency. Production improvement starts with robotic process automation (RPA) that make processes less variable because the process is more repeatable.
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