The ET’s Manufacturing Excellence Through Digital Transformation Program, which aims to help SMEs upgrade themselves to Industry 4.0, headed into its 2nd week on February 4, 2023. The 1st session of the program focussed on ‘Deep Diving Into Various Elements Of Manufacturing Processes’ and providing solutions for the different manufacturing processes. The industry experts and mentors who shared their knowledge and solutions in the session included Vishwajeet Abhyankar, Vice President of Piramal Glass Pvt. Ltd; Amit Saluja, Head at NASSCOM; Hamseswari Ranganathan, Product Strategist at Oracle and Dr. Chandan Chowdhary, Senior Associate and Professor at Indian School of Business (ISB). Vishwajeet Piramal, began the session on ‘Data Acquisition and Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) analysis’ and said that improving OEE means reducing availability loss, performance loss, quality loss and scheduled loss in the manufacturing of the products. This can be achieved by adopting advanced technology in data acquisition which clearly helps to reduce losses and prioritise corrective actions. For instance, wireless technology like tablets installed on the shopfloor and machines with predefined dropdown menus, AI-based automatic inspection machines for detecting defects can help minimise losses in a huge way. The challenges in a technology-driven data acquisition however can be additional […]
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