Smart Operations And Next Generation Manufacturing

The manufacturing companies produce innovation every day. Powerful smartphones personal aircraft, unmanned drones, personal aircraft, driverless vehicles or even rocket. All these advancements proffer the apparition of next-generation manufacturing.

However, market research reports suggest that manufacturing industry hasn’t got its tech-turn as in the case of other industries such as 3-D printing. The industry still depends on the conventional pipeline process. Even the process of using workflow and intelligent automation tools.

Finance, retail travel, and numerous other industries have room for tech-transformations. Following are a few manufacturing industry struggles which can be maneuvered if emphasized in the area of technology.

• Poor system of communication
• Coordination between mechanical engineers and manufactured
• Delayed and costly processes.
• Difficulties in processing multiple projects at once.

To complete with the notion of efficient manufacturing industry, there’s a need to underline the area of software-driven solutions for better improvements in the hardware sector.

This may enable a smooth start-to-end process to production and hardware teams. This will further shape the key areas and accelerate the needful advances in the industry.

As per manufacturing market research, the following are some of the areas where innovations and improvements can be made:

Workflow

Online collaboration software solutions will simplify the whole internal and external coordination process in the manufacturing company. Some of the 3-D viewing tools can be incorporated in the industrial administrative process which will enable to capture exact feedback, resolution to issues and assemble the production bundles for quotation.

Automation

Some of the automation and machine learning techniques can be employed in this industry to improve the process of  DFM and quotations. This will remove the conventional manufacturing timelines which require manual interchange for each process involved.

Vendor Management

Connected manufacturing networks which are scaling on an international level with global and local support can be done well. Real-time views through intelligent systems will ease the process for vendors and also help them ensure high quality in the service delivered.

Though the complexity has increased with various advancements in other industries, The two-decade-old MS office tools are still being used in the manufacturing industry to manage the overall workflow. Applying machine learning and software advancements will allow the manufacturing industry to transform to the extent that there will be faster service and high quality maintained.