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The Dexterous Manufacturing Design Engineer is Stirring up a Storm with Cognitive Predictive Maintenance

Have you ever stepped back and given a thought to that agile team of design engineers, who work relentlessly to bring your dream car to reality? Without the design engineer’s razor sharp focus and impeccable skill set on leading cutting edge technology, your car would be a mere blueprint, stacked up on an auto manufacturer's desk somewhere.

That’s the magic of the Dexterous Manufacturing Designer- Bringing your dreams to life.

What can the Dexterous Manufacturing Designer do for you?

The Dexterous Manufacturing Designer thrives on finding solutions to the most complex problems at hand. From building much-needed structures in the middle of nowhere to erecting mammoth towers which can withstand the test of time, our Dextrous Manufacturing Designer has a plan of action ready for you at any given moment. Specializing in the minutest of technical design aspects, this engineer is responsible for making the end product.

To an extent where, even the C-Level Executives seek their approval to suggest the most suitable course of action on the design of an equipment, a machine or a finished product that reaches the customer.

He is a multifaceted superhero gifted with remarkable superpowers. He is the ‘Brain’ behind researching the nitty-gritty's of a product that can contribute to the overall success of a process or a system. He functions as the ‘Limbs’ of a manufacturing outfit, by creating the much-needed drawings for the manufacturing team. He also is the ‘Backbone’ of a manufacturing organization as most operations are supported by his reflective technical leadership and guidance.

Storm of Challenges faced by the Manufacturing Design Engineer

The manufacturing industry is changing at a rapid pace. The industry as we know it today was never imagined to be this way even a decade ago. While the priority has always been ‘cost reduction’, the pressure to achieve this has increased tremendously with the onset of large-scale digitization and automation of services. The engineering team working on these next-gen products are faced with superlative demands to reduce costs while increasing production efficiencies and the Design Engineer is not left far behind in this fierce battle.

Here are some of the roadblocks the Manufacturing Design Engineer faces on a daily basis:

1.      Raving Customer Demands = Constant Need to upgrade / Keeping products relevant

He faces the need to continuously upgrade his design skills to meet rising customer expectations

2.  Technical Design Constraints = Lack of an Appropriate Solution

Each time there is a technical difficulty in creating a specific design, this leads to a less than satisfactory solution which can create a dent in the market share

3.    Abrupt machine failure = Loss of quality/ Delay in Service SLAs

Since ‘design’ marks the beginning of the product lifecycle journey, any equipment breakdown can lead to significant delay in the overall service cycle, thus affecting the quality as well

4.  Lack of Predictive Capabilities = Inferior Design Quality

With limited predictive analytical capabilities, he might face sudden unexpected setbacks in the regular course of operations, which can adversely affect his design output.

“What can’t be predicted, holds zero value”-With this guiding principle as his north star, our Dextrous Manufacturing Designer sets off on a mission. A mission to slice down operating costs, a mission to spike up design quality, a mission to reduce the much-dreaded process downtime.

Here is how he makes this happen using Cognitive Predictive Maintenance as his artful tool. 

1.The Dexterous Manufacturing Designer can boost productivity by 25%

With Cognitive Predictive Maintenance, he identifies equipment problems in a jiffy and puts a halt to unnecessary machine downtime in the initial stages itself. He is able to use this saved up time and resources, in creating Remodeling designs of the highest quality.

2. The Dexterous Manufacturing Designer cuts down maintenance costs by 30%

With Predictive Analytics in place, he ensures his design equipment is repaired only when needed (as opposed to routine disassembly), hence being able to deliver more satisfying and worthwhile results while keeping the costs of maintaining the machinery as low as possible.

3. The Dexterous Manufacturing Designer hikes the machine uptime by 30%

 Using Cognitive Predictive Maintenance techniques, he continuously works on analyzing the design equipment’s performance data and ensures the overall efficiency of the equipment is monitored constantly. He, therefore, can significantly boost the machine uptime and hence delivers a superior quality product in lesser time.

Remodelling the World of Machines - Time to Demystify Human Potential

In a world ruled by complex industrial automation, there is no place for ‘Dark Data’. Manufacturers no longer have the luxury to sit back and wait for a solution, to analyse their vast expanse of data sets. Time has come to take the reins into their hands and use the advances of Predictive Maintenance and Analytics to instantly enhance efficiencies by predicting and preventing asset failure. It’s time to welcome the Dextrous Manufacturing Designer, powered by his cognitive toolkit and predictive superpowers, to unravel the mysteries of unmanaged data logs. So, the next time you sit down thinking about those dream gadgets you aspire to own, remember- somewhere the Dexterous Manufacturing Designer is working hard on realizing your wish list using his secret weapon – Cognitive Predictive Maintenance.

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This article was originally posted on LinkedIn.