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Digital Transformation of Magnet Wire Manufacturer: Increasing Throughput and Quality with Sight Machine

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries	Electrical Grids Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions	Maintenance Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Visual Quality Detection
Services	Testing & Certification
Challenge	Essex Furukawa, the world's largest magnet wire manufacturer, faced increased demand for electric vehicle (EV) motors while needing to address supply-chain challenges. They sought to digitally transform their manufacturing plants to increase throughput and uptime without sacrificing quality. Read More
About Customer	Essex Furukawa is the world's largest manufacturer of magnet wire/winding wire, which powers motors including EV motors. They needed to meet the growing demands of the EV market while maintaining their position as a market leader. Read More
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Solution	Essex Furukawa partnered with Sight Machine to unlock their plant data and improve manufacturing productivity. They deployed Sight Machine on Microsoft Azure, which provided a secure and scalable cloud platform for real-time streaming, analysis, and enhanced insights. Sight Machine turned all production data into a common data foundation for manufacturing operations and analysis, allowing Essex Furukawa to track Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) across all plants and continuously improve production speed, quality, and availability. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning

Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Electrical Grids

Equipment & Machinery

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Visual Quality Detection

Services

Testing & Certification

Challenge

Essex Furukawa, the world's largest magnet wire manufacturer, faced increased demand for electric vehicle (EV) motors while needing to address supply-chain challenges. They sought to digitally transform their manufacturing plants to increase throughput and uptime without sacrificing quality.

About Customer

Essex Furukawa is the world's largest manufacturer of magnet wire/winding wire, which powers motors including EV motors. They needed to meet the growing demands of the EV market while maintaining their position as a market leader.

Customer Name

Essex Furukawa

Solution

Essex Furukawa partnered with Sight Machine to unlock their plant data and improve manufacturing productivity. They deployed Sight Machine on Microsoft Azure, which provided a secure and scalable cloud platform for real-time streaming, analysis, and enhanced insights. Sight Machine turned all production data into a common data foundation for manufacturing operations and analysis, allowing Essex Furukawa to track Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) across all plants and continuously improve production speed, quality, and availability.

Benefit #1	The deployment of Sight Machine on Azure allowed Essex Furukawa to have a single, trusted, and dynamically updated view of production. This enabled them to adopt a unified method to track OEE across all plants and greatly improve throughput. The recommendations from Sight Machine's analytics models resulted in significant efficiency improvements.

Benefit #1

The deployment of Sight Machine on Azure allowed Essex Furukawa to have a single, trusted, and dynamically updated view of production. This enabled them to adopt a unified method to track OEE across all plants and greatly improve throughput. The recommendations from Sight Machine's analytics models resulted in significant efficiency improvements.

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Digital Transformation of Magnet Wire Manufacturer: Increasing Throughput and Quality with Sight Machine

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