The welding line is one of the harshest environments in a plant, so avoiding downtime is a particularly key challenge for plant personnel.
According to the Global State of Information Security Survey 2016, 38 percent more security incidents were detected in 2015 than the previous year.
While CE marking may appear to be one of the simpler European Union requirements to get right, it is in fact one of the most misunderstood. Neil Dyson reports.
The £22 million Proving Factory in Coventry provides process development and ‘proving volume’ production of low-carbon technology automotive components and systems. A flexible manufacturing cell, complete with Kanban storage, was designed and built by MiniTec UK as part of the facility’s original equipment.
Marquardt GmbH recently converted every signal tower at its Rietheim-Weilheim plant into a machine data collection and monitoring system - and gained a ten percent increase in manufacturing efficiency as a result.