Smart Manufacturing: How to Make Your Factory Smarter

<p><br></p><br><p>With technological advancements all around us in the manufacturing industry, it's important to understand how improving machinery operations is dependant upon making your factory smarter.</p><br><p><strong>Today</strong>, in our fourth and final podcast of these series, Bill Davis — the Director of Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment Solutions at Siemens — and I, we're discussing the smart manufacturing techniques to use to improve machine assembly, shop layouts, and process simulation.</p><br><p>So, listen to the <strong>Final</strong> <strong>Episode </strong>of the <strong>Siemens PLM Podcast series,</strong> to learn how to be more efficient in terms of generating more cash and reducing the quality problems overall, with the help of the digital twin.</p><br><p><strong>In this episode, you will learn:</strong></p><ul><li>How to make sure you get the right parts to the right spot on the assembly floor at the right time. (01:53)</li><li>Why process simulation is important for continuous improvement. (02:55)</li><li>Why scheduling machines and multiple product lines at the same time is as important as the individual assembly process. (05:12)</li><li>What you can do to bring a machine into the commissionable state as quickly as possible so that you don’t have idle time for your cash. (06:30)</li><li>Examples of use cases where companies have implemented the simulation and seen a reduction in errors and time, while an increase in cash flow. (09:49)</li><li>What closed-loop quality is and how does it work. (14:29)</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Connect with Bill Davis:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-davis-345875/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></li></ul><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>