ATS BLOG Industry 4.0: Solutions for Today - Strategies for the Future This interview with Martin Kelman was first published in the Engineering magazine. Do you have a working definition of Industry 4.0? Industry 4.0 is about data and the services that can be enabled using data. [...]
How does Advanced Planning & Scheduling Software (APS) fit in a Just-in-Time (JIT) World? Dan Hahn, Senior Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Lean Scheduling International, with over 20 years in manufacturing technologies including system selection, project management, implementation, and development. Whether you have a Just-in-Time (JIT) program in place with your vendors [...]
What is the True Cost of Your Wasted Products and How Can You Reduce It? The true cost of wasted products in process manufacturing industries goes far beyond the cost of lost product. It spills over into stockpiles, productivity, downtime and much more. On the plus side, this means that as you [...]
Knowledge, it spreads like wildfire. Yet all this knowledge does not yet translate to increases in productivity. The Manufacturing Operations Management Institute and the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association are trying to change thatThis article was first published in the Spring 2019 issue of The Record Magazine. When the first Industry 4.0 report was handed over [...]
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 BLOG A Rapid Deployment Solution for Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) Market pressure, demand for high quality, attention to reduce manufacturing costs, improve operational efficiencies are some of the examples of the continuous challenges that our customers face every day.Nowadays digitalization has to be at core of [...]
ATS BLOG The IIoT and Convergence of IT & OT (Operations Technology) How we folks at ATS view IT OT Convergence, keeping our feet solidly grounded in the real world, today and tomorrow.In manufacturing environments, there is a constant push to increase connectivity between machines, people, and [...]
ATS BLOG Smarter Digitalised Product Quality Inspections: Introducing ATS Inspect 6 Take the Leap Forward to ATS Inspect 6 To keep manufacturers at the top of their game ATS Inspect is under constant development. New features and improvements are frequently suggested by customers as well as by the ATS [...]
ATS BLOG Digital Transformation Changing the Face of Manufacturing Industry According to Desmond Savage, medical device manufacturing operations management consultant at ATS Global, “it is crucial to define and follow the smart manufacturing transformation strategy in order to achieve tangible business benefits. ATS plays a significant [...]
Introducing the second in a series of four articles on the matter of Industry 4.0. This time, we take a look at developments around artificial intelligence.This article was first published in the Summer 2017 issue of The Record Magazine. Current Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing developments clearly point to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI).And [...]
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