Typical issues faced by manufacturing companies
- Machines in a typical manufacturing shop floor are idle up to 30% of the time; that is 8 hours per day
- Often the reasons for down time are unknown or partially known
- Shop floor data on production quantity and man-machine utilisation is manually collected and compiled, available the next day, and is often inaccurate or doctored; this results in poor decision making
- No mechanism exists to capture/measure down time of machines accurately
- It is not possible to monitor progress of productivity initiatives and processes
- Diverse machines with a mix of new and legacy technologies are huge entry barriers for IT enablers
Industries that will benefit most by using Ricoh’s solution
- Discrete manufacturing shop floors
- Auto component OEMs
- Large mass producing engineering companies with more than 20 CNC machines
- Aerospace parts manufacturing companies
- Power generation companies requiring remote monitoring
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