Implementing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in Medical Device Manufacturing
âA lot of machine shops are stuck in the 20th century,â Lou Zhang, chief data scientist at MachineMetrics, recently told MD+DI. âBasically, they have machines sitting on their floors that are running and they're making parts, but nobody really knows, besides the operators, what they're doing on an hour-to-hour basis, and this is how manufacturing has worked for the last hundred years or so.â
Zhang said that this is one of the biggest problems hindering efficiency in manufacturing. But by implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a manager would be able to see in one centralized displayâwhether it be a computer, iPad, or phoneâwhether machines are on or off, whether they are running efficiently, and how many parts they have made, as well as if there are any errors, alarms, or warnings on them, he explained.
In his presentation at the upcoming MD&M Minneapolis show, âAutomation Challenges Slowing the Advance of IIoT in Manufacturing,â Zhang said he will focus on the first step of what he calls the analytics journey. âThe first step towards that analytics journey is getting your machines connected, getting some basic dashboards up, and having that descriptive analytics component enabled.â After the descriptive stage, diagnostic analytics and finally predictive a...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Susan Shepard Tags: MD & M Minneapolis Assembly and Automation Source Type: news