Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring

Question 1

Digital Manufacturing

Answer 1

Digital Transformation: the changing of business processes enabled or forced by digitalisation technologies

Digital Manufacturing: The application of digital information [from multiple sources, formats, owners] for the enhancement of manufacturing processes, supply chains, products and services

Question 2

Industry 4.0

Answer 2

A framework for enabling the intelligent integration of physical and digital resources, services and human resources in manufacturing in real time

Vertical integration and networked manufacturing systems

Horizontal integration through value networks

End-to-end digital integration of engineering across the entire value chain

Real Time optimisation

Question 3

Challenges

Answer 3

Primary tech driven
Sold as a Strategic weapon / new paradigm -> difficult to turn that into specific solutions meeting real needs
Need to accommodate the existence of legacy Systems

Complexity of Business Case

“67% of companies consider missing digital skills as the key hurdle to their Digital Transformation.”

Digitalisation is percieved as inaccessable

Question 4

Solution

Answer 4

Commercial Tech

Digitise old analogue displays

Job tracking

Equipment monitoring

Question 5

Shoestring Process

Answer 5

Select a solution which will benefit your business and be straightforward to implement: Brainstorm the potential beneficial outcomes that the solution could have if it worked as expected
Consider everything that could go wrong
Balance potential benefits to challeneges

Specify the solution and its uses in the words of the operational team
User stories
Functional modelling
Planning

Design the solution by choosing or adapting an existing one, or create a new one using Shoestring techniques

Build the solution and deploy it on-site alongside your processes
Encapsulate core technology elements
Standard interfacing options
Hardware
Software
Service Modules: connect to each other with a bus like module
Data collection: barcode
Analysis: flowrate
State and Data storage: local system
User interface: display the result

Review

Question 6

Priority Areas for Small Companies

Answer 6

Job tracking
Digitised work instructions
Internal lead time monitoring
Digital job cards
Process monitoring
Capacity monitoring
Cost modelling of disruptions and changes
Gathering and analhysis of product or customer demand