How to Keep Full Traceability of Parts (Material, Workcenter and Operator) While Minimizing Hi Lo Moves (Container Movement)
Manufacturing traceability continues to be important as businesses need to be able to track back through the manufacturing process to the origin of raw material when a quality problem occurs, but what happens when your batch size changes with each step of your manufacturing process? The session will present best practices to keeping full traceability of material, workcenter, operator and parts while keeping production container movement to a minimum.
Jeffrey Sawka - AIM Computer Solutions, Inc.
New Machine Concepts with Fully Integrated Robots Revolutionize Manufacturing Technologies
Modern manufacturing environments are currently furnished with production machines and handling devices, which are working side by side. Side by side does not necessarily mean working together! There are many limitations and limits regarding possibilities, quality and efficiency. In which direction do the future developments go in order to shift the known limitations and limits? The latest CNC technology is already prepared today and ready for future applications. It enables new possibilities in all production processes and will bring metal manufacturing to a new level. It opens new avenues for a variety of innovations and technology solutions for which numerous patent applications are already pending. Using robot kinematics for machine operations in a fully integrated way, machine and handling devices merge into one system. Initial systems are already launched, which broaden the horizon of the metal manufacturing world.
Christoph Roehm - WAFIOS AG / WAFIOS Machinery Corporation
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