Today, massive improvements are needed in Productivity, Quality & Machine Health to enable TRANSFORMATION of Indian Industry.. Which will generate Profits & increase Competitiveness.
However, there is ONE Major Problem that is severely impacting Indian Manufacturing – Chronic Shortage of Suitably Skilled or Trained Machine Operators.
The standard solution would be to set up more ‘Training/Skilling Centers’ but this is a slow process and it cannot meet Industry’s need for an immediate solution.
Fortunately, an elegant solution exists, which uses the ‘Three Low Hanging Fruits of Industry 4.0’ and embeds them in machines in a seamless, integrated manner that the end product becomes a UPM, i.e. Untrained Person operable Machine.
The UPM removes the ‘3 Obstacles’ effortlessly with the ‘THREE LOW HANGING FRUITS of Industry 4.0’
OBSTACLE # 1: Lack of ‘Real Time’, Accurate, Automatically Generated Shop Floor DATA. With Actionable Insights.
UMM allows seamless transfer of operational data of machines to cloud based software that sends real time alerts & reports to authorized persons at any location. This allows ‘Visibility into machine shops‘ for senior managers, while removing a layer of supervisors who manually collected & processed data earlier. This ‘pure’ & ‘real time’ data results in continuous improvements in PRODUCTIVITY.
OBSTACLE # 2: Lack of System based, Operator-Independent QUALITY.
OBSTACLE # 3: Lack of ‘Early warning’ systems to prevent sudden breakdown of machines.
CONCLUSION: The SYNERGY between the THREE Industry 4.0 technologies embedded in the UPM ensures that the benefits of the ‘WHOLE’ are greater than the sum of the ‘parts’ UPM, i.e. Untrained Person operable Machines are THE solutions that manufacturing needs TODAY and these should be adopted on War-footing for PROFITS & PEACE OF MIND!
Jai Hind.
