Manufacturing plants have a lot of machines requiring regular maintenance. There are procedures in place to protect both the equipment and the employees during scheduled and unscheduled repairs. A lot of care is put into following the guidelines correctly because...
If your company is just at the beginning of its digital transformation you may ask yourself what technologies are required to get started with data and machine learning. In my opinion not much has changed in 2023: the bread and...
Manufacturing software systems don’t change often. I’ve worked with command line MES-systems that were older than me. Production is king: as long as the software that runs the process works, there is little desire to modernize it because we don’t...
Data pipelines found at a typical manufacturer continuously extract data from production systems and load them to a centralized place, for example a data lake. When the involves data coming from production, i.e. machine sensors, there is often already a...
In my previous post about Data-Centric AI I talked about how this paradigm of focusing on improving data instead of improving code (i.e. AI models) enables manufacturers to do better machine learning.
One common type of project I find myself doing is moving calculations from Excel to Python. The reason why it’s nearly always good to “productionalize” Excel files as code, is the incredibly high cost of getting things wrong in manufacturing....
Yesterday I had a discussion with a manager from another plant where they had implemented a new, modern MES system using SAP a while ago.