No Shop Too Small for Industry 4.0

摘要

Smaller shops are reaping benefits ranging from solving quality issues to attracting and keeping talent. The ability to take Industry 4.0 software and implement it into your current server system, connect your machine tools, start collecting data and make it valuable to your business is very easy to do. That is according to Brad Klippstein, supervisor and product specialist at Okuma America Corp., Charlotte, N.C. A good example is Okuma's graphics-heavy, browser-based software, ConnectPlan. It gives users immediate visibility into their machines and equipment and can report on machine tool operating performance. That performance information can provide a roadmap to opportunities for fixes.