Manufacturing
Increase Factory Uptime for Your Manufacturing Operation
Manufacturers face two critical operational concerns, and both are equally important: one, how to increase factory uptime. And two, how to ensure the quality of their factory output without slowing down production. Tweddle Group’s offering suite provides a comprehensive toolkit for both. We offer a remote system that monitors factory equipment and prescribes preventive maintenance as needed. And TRACER™ tests electronic circuits as they come off the line to help technicians resolve electrical failures quickly and easily.
The question of how to increase factory uptime has been a primary manufacturing concern since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Since then, key innovations have created incremental improvements, but efficiency potentials have skyrocketed with the arrival of IoT, AI and related technologies.
And yet, if that’s the case, why hasn’t efficiency itself skyrocketed as well?
How to Increase Factory Uptime
The answer lies in how these new technologies have or have not been leveraged by manufacturers. Any effort to increase factory uptime should revolve around three central concepts.
Machine Monitoring
First, manufacturers should implement connected monitoring systems to track machine health and prescribe preventive maintenance. Regular, effective maintenance is the single best method for eliminating downtime. By proactively ensuring machine uptimes, factories enjoy long-term ‘always-on’ operations.
Improve Access to Quality Spare Parts
Second, companies should make it easy for team members and technicians to find and order high-quality replacement parts for on-site machinery. A proper spare parts ordering system makes it easy to find and order the correct part regardless of machine complexity or changing part names, numbers and suppliers.
Boost Repair with AI diagnostics
Lastly, manufacturers can increase factory uptime by finding ways to make machine repair faster and more efficient. Machines do fail, even with the best preventive maintenance. Cutting-edge AI diagnostics help manufacturers minimize downtime and bring production back online quickly.
