In the roar of the factory, a race to determine the fate of enterprises has long been playing. Industrial automation,
by no means “icing on the cake” of the fashionable word, but the lifeblood of the life and death of the manufacturing
industry. Do not understand the importance of it, is the beginning of the competition is eliminated. The 6 hard truths,
the reason to say through:
Efficiency is life: if you can't get it up fast, you have to die.
Artificial have limits: people will be tired, will be wrong, capacity is stuck in the bottleneck not to go. Automation equipment
can be 24 hours a day, faster, more accurate beat, doubling capacity is not a dream.
Time can not afford to delay: the delivery time is getting shorter and shorter. Automated production line compression of
the production cycle, so that orders come quickly, out faster, to grab a single have the courage.
Equipment can not be idle: automated scheduling so that the machine less “daze”, the material on time to send, reduce
the empty waiting, equipment utilization (OEE) to rush high, every investment is worth more money.
Quality can't be kept, customers can't be retained
Difficulty of manpower consistency: the same process, different people do, the results may be very different. Automated
equipment to dry a million times are the same, high precision, fluctuations in small, rock-solid products.
The cost of omission inspection is large: artificial eyesight, small defects are easy to slip away. Machine vision like “eyes of fire”,
high-speed scanning, small defects are also pulled out, scrap rework is greatly reduced, the reputation is preserved.
Data to find the root cause of the disease: automated record production data. Where is prone to problems? How to adjust the
parameters better? Data speak, the more the quality of the harder to do.
Costs can't be suppressed, profits can't be talked about
Labor is the big head: especially where labor is expensive, the use of machines to replace the repetitive, simple, dangerous
work, the people used in more valuable places (management machines, optimization), the unit cost can come down.
Waste of too much heartache: misloading and omission, material consumption, energy burning... Automation to reduce
human error, material counting, energy supply on demand, less waste, money will be saved.
Inventory pressure funds: automated logistics (intelligent warehouse, automatic feeding) so that the material turnover
fast up, inventory less hoarding, money can live up to use.
Security problems, everything equals zero
Lives are at stake: high temperature, poisonous gas, heavy lifting ... these high-risk work, the machine, the people
withdrawn, the risk of major accidents is basically zero. Employee safety, the enterprise is secure.
Equipment security: automation system comes with multiple insurance (emergency stop, grating, safety locks), more
reliable than the human eye, the accident automatically stops to protect people, but also to protect the equipment.
Human-machine collaboration is more at ease: new collaborative robots, encountering people on the collection of
force to stop, man-machine work together is also assured.
Data is gold, decision-making can not be fooled
The factory becomes transparent: Is the equipment turning well? Where is the output? Is the quality okay? Automation
data in real time, production is no longer a “black box”, the heart has a clear account.
Decision-making is based on evidence: equipment can be known in advance when it breaks down (predictive maintenance),
where the bottlenecks are, and high energy consumption can be found immediately. Relying on data to make decisions
is ten thousand times stronger than patting your head.
Optimization has a direction: the accumulated data is a treasure trove. Analyze it, find better process parameters,
dig efficiency improvement points, continuous progress has a foundation.
The market is becoming fast, if you are not flexible, you will be finished.
Small orders must also be taken: large quantities are becoming less and less, more varieties, small quantities is the norm.
Automated production line for production fast (fast mold change), adjust the program flexible, take a small single, do
customized to not lose out.
Response should be rapid: customer demand changes, the supply chain may break the chain. Strong internal scheduling
of automated factories, can adjust the production faster, carry the risk of a higher capacity.
Conclusion: automation, not to choose or not to choose, but must take the road!
Industrial automation, is a manufacturing enterprise to live, live better lifeblood. Efficiency, quality, cost, safety, data, flexibility
- these six lifelines, all rely on automation technology to open the reinforcement.
Now not on the automation, efficiency will be crushed, quality is difficult to ensure that the cost can not come down, safety has
hidden dangers, decision-making like a blind man feeling an elephant, the market changes on the blind. Rivals in automation
running wild, you stand still, is waiting for death.
Don't hesitate to look at these 6 points. Embracing automation is not about being trendy, it's about building your organization's
viability for tomorrow. Your factory, ready to seize this “life and death lifeblood”? Act now, is to seize the future.