“Manufacturers invest in minimizing or eliminating the yield loss they experience because at the end of the day every rejected product or lot is simply a loss of dollars. The fiscal impact is different depending on the industry but between the material, time, labor, energy, and opportunity wasted when product produced is discarded the monetary loss experienced is often significant” – Greg Sullivan, ATS Digital Solutions Specialist Manufacturers monitor several key performance metrics to determine how manufacturing operations are performing. One such metric is yield loss, the amount of product produced that is rejected or defective or otherwise discarded as a percentage of the total … Continue reading Reduce your Yield Loss rate with High Quality Process Data
Maximize Maintenance Impact Through Analysis of Automation Equipment Data
“I think the biggest benefit of being able to monitor near real time machine health and performance is we consistently see our customers experiencing a significant reduction in unscheduled downtime.” – Reliability Development Manager, ATS Manufacturers across a variety of industries are learning to leverage insights from machine condition data to prioritize corrective maintenance efforts and optimize preventive maintenance plans, while at the same time developing the … Continue reading Maximize Maintenance Impact Through Analysis of Automation Equipment Data
Illuminate™ Manufacturing Intelligence Powers COMECER Industry 4.0 Pharma Production Solution
COMECER has integrated Illuminate™ Manufacturing Intelligence (“Illuminate”) into its aseptic processing and containment equipment for pharmaceutical and nuclear medicine industries The Partnership provides COMECER customers with real-time visibility to the health of manufacturing systems, and a suite of advanced diagnostic and production management tools including event-triggered video capture and predictive maintenance CAMBRIDGE, ON Feb. 9th, 2021 – Illuminate™ Manufacturing Intelligence, a division of ATS (ATA.TO) has partnered with … Continue reading Illuminate™ Manufacturing Intelligence Powers COMECER Industry 4.0 Pharma Production Solution
An Agile Approach to Digital Transformation in Industrial Enterprises
“We always look at data and we get some insight, and we think it’s interesting, but it is about taking it to the next level … what it is telling you, and how do you take action?” – Mike Tidy, General Manager, ATS Digital Solutions It has never been easier to get data out of … Continue reading An Agile Approach to Digital Transformation in Industrial Enterprises
2021 Advanced Manufacturing Outlook Report Featuring Mike Tidy – GM of ATS Digital Solutions
The focus of the 2021 Advanced Manufacturing Report is Industry 4.0, or more specifically if Canadian manufacturers are ready for digital transformation, the challenges, and the rewards. The 2021 edition features perspectives from a variety of leaders across the Canadian manufacturing industry on a range of current topics, from the ways manufacturing processes have been … Continue reading 2021 Advanced Manufacturing Outlook Report Featuring Mike Tidy – GM of ATS Digital Solutions
How Manufacturers Are Leveraging Digital Transformation to Improve Operations
Mike Tidy, General Manager, ATS Digital Solutions – joins Jim Beretta, host of the Robot Industry Podcast, to discuss a variety of topics related to Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation of manufacturing. The conversation focuses on the increasing use of automation and data within manufacturing operations and several related topics. They tackle questions such … Continue reading How Manufacturers Are Leveraging Digital Transformation to Improve Operations