Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation offers a downloadable e‑book titled How Small and Medium Enterprises Can Benefit from Smart Manufacturing. In it, you will learn about the main advantages of intelligent production. Improved flexibility, efficiency, accuracy and reduced downtime are all benefits of implementing a smart manufacturing strategy.
However, many small to medium-sized manufacturers have not yet started because they fear that it will mean radical changes, disruptions to their operations and also significant investment.
The good news is that this is no longer the case. Currently, there are already practical solutions that help solve some everyday and regularly recurring problems and answer questions such as: “How can I ensure that I do not run out of products or that I do not, on the contrary, have an excess of parts?” These problems may seem primitive , but removing them will play a key role in improving the running of your business.
DOWNLOAD THE E‑BOOK How SMEs can take advantage of smart manufacturing. Learn the first steps you need to take to start reaping the benefits of digital transformation in your business without high initial investments.
The main benefits of smart manufacturing include, for example:
- Real-time monitoring of material consumption to increase productivity and efficiency.
- Digitization of production, thanks to which it is possible to actively react to problems and thus prevent downtime.
- Less manual data entry from machines, so the production operator has more time for value-added work.
- Lower impact of production on the environment due to less consumption of electricity needed to operate machines due to greater efficiency.
Source: www.cad.cz