White paper: How to reduce throughput times, boost overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and transform your production into a Smart Factory, step by step.
High part variation, fluctuating order volumes, rising material and energy costs: many sheet metal processors have already partially automated their systems, but continue to struggle with media breaks, manual workflows and opaque processes. This white paper shows how you can systematically connect your existing production facilities and synchronise the flow of materials and information to achieve a quantifiable reduction in costs per part.
- Practical Smart Factory concepts for networked sheet metal processing with a large warehouse and autonomous cells
- Specific effects on OEE, throughput time, part costs, and power input (e.g., up to 35% lower part costs)
- Comparison of stand-alone vs. fully networked solutions for punching, laser cutting, and bending
- Examples from series production: unmanned night shifts, automated guided vehicle systems, automated factory flow
- "Philosophy of Growth" process model: Step-by-step digitalization without production risk