In the second of a new series of articles, Mike James from ATS highlights how smart advisors are the perfect starting point for the journey into smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0.This article was first published in OnWindows. I first read about ‘smart advisors’ in a report published by industry analyst Gartner. The idea aligns well [...]
ATS ADOS is the Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0 software suite that will allow you to collect, combine, analyse, report and act on production data. Your browser does not support the video tag. The Smart Manufacturing Issue In any manufacturing plant you’ll have a lot of design and production data. It’ll be in several different [...]
This reporting template contains a graph, which shows a trend or “run chart” with limits and highlights out of tolerance events quickly using red crosses in the graph.ATS CM4D provides quality validation, reporting and analysis tools for quality management of manufactured products and parts. Download Example of Automotive Trend Report as PDF. This graph [...]
This reporting template contains a graph, which shows a trend as a series of coloured bars. The proximity to limits is shown by the bar colour: Yellow - 70% of tolerance Pale red - outside tolerance Dark red - outside double tolerance The graph contains a number of key statistical values including Mean, Standard Deviation, [...]
This reporting template contains a type of graph, which is quite specialised and should only be applied to 3D components and assemblies.The template divides all data into it’s primary direction of measurement: X (Fore/Aft) Y (IN/OUT) Z (High Low) Each direction must be shown on a separate page, or set of pages. And the CAD [...]
This reporting template contains a very simple type of graph, which shows all features on one page. The boxes show the feature name and direction measured plus the mean and the direction the mean is in. e.g. Z shows Hi/Low or Y shows In/Out. If the mean is close to a tolerance limit it will [...]
This reporting template contains a useful management level graph, which shows the overall quality of all features in a part or assembly using the four most widely used measures of repeatability.The usual target value for any company working towards 6S quality standards is to have Pp/Ppk above 1.66. Typically Pp/Ppk will be used during development [...]
This reporting template contains graph set, which is similar to other trend analysis graphs. There is a central trend graph with out of tolerance events highlighted in red and some key statistics (Mean, Range, Pp and Ppk are shown). In this graph however XY and Z are replace by TB and H to match the [...]
Press Release ATS CM4D v21 Released ATS International B.V. is thrilled to announce the release of ATS CM4D v21. This release of CM4D contains many new and exciting features, but we wanted to highlight a few of the biggest achievements this version has to offer: ATS CM4D Web We [...]
There is much talk about the internet of things. However, ‘things’ are just part of the plumbing. We connect devices, giving them, no more than, nominal intelligence. The real innovation is the internet of services. Manufacturers need to think through their business model: how can a product become a service with the long term related [...]
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