Bill Frahm

AI can assist metal manufacturing businesses with data capture for FMEA and reliability programs.

Trained and prepared employees have the knowledge and experience to define where smart manufacturing can add value.

Implementing smart manufacturing is a slow process that can create confusion and distrust among employees. Here’s how to encourage acceptance among staff throughout a metal fabrication business.

Before adopting smart manufacturing, you need to evaluate it deeply. These eight questions about can help define a metal fabrication shop's objectives and capabilities.

Data is king only if used correctly. For smart manufacturing to be successful, employees must be trained to understand analytical results based on quality data.

Smart manufacturing can help metal fabrication and forming shops measure and analyze data to gain efficiency for better sustainability and product quality.

Having a well-defined vision and being open and honest with employees go a long way in helping a manufacturing organization navigate change successfully.

Like recording artists reusing samples from previously recorded music, fabricators can use previous hits to build new products that meet user demands.

Success and safety in tomorrow’s manufacturing plants will be decided by how well we prepare employees to master technology and respond to both good and bad analytical results.

A press shop experiences many types of failure. The right approach to troubleshooting can give employees better skills for the process and prevent more failures in the first place.

To ensure the variables in a manufacturer's sheet metal forming operation are working together well, a shop will need to measure each one and understand its acceptable operating range.