Sensors and Control Systems in Manufacturing
Rising costs, shorter lead times, complex customer specifications, competition from across the street—and around the world. Business today faces an ever-increasing number of challenges. The manufacturers that develop more effective and efficient forms of production, development, and marketing will be the ones who meet these challenges.
The use of advanced sensors and control technology makes a fundamental commitment to manufacturing solutions based on simple and affordable integration. With this technology, one can integrate manufacturing processes, react to rapidly changing production conditions, help personnel to react more effectively to complex qualitative decisions, and lower the cost of and improve product quality throughout the manufacturing enterprise.
The first step in achieving such flexibility is to establish an information system that can be reshaped whenever necessary, thus enabling it to respond to the changing requirements of the enterprise and the environment. This reshaping must be accomplished with minimal cost and disruption to the ongoing operation.
Sensors and control technology will play a key role in achieving flexibility in the information system. However, this technology alone can not shorten lead time, reduce Inventories, and minimize excess capacity to the extent required by today’s manufacturing operation.
This can be accomplished only by integrating various sensors with appropriate control means throughout the manufacturing operation within computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) strategy. The result is that individual manufacturing processes will be able to flow, communicate, and respond together as a unified cell, well structured for their functions.
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