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Chicken or the Egg – How to Perform Root Cause Analysis in 3 Steps

Chicken or the Egg – How to Perform a Root Cause Analysis in 3 Steps

02 Dec 2020, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, Production, Technology

“I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I’ll let you know which one comes first!” Unfortunately, metals production is too complex for a simple answer like this. Production defects can often only be detected when it is already too late. So what if you could identify the root cause of a defect and thus once and for all answer the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Advanced Quality Evaluation – Why Quality Engineers Love Both Cats and Foxes

11 Nov 2020, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, Production

A quality management system should be reliable and fast, like the cat in the Aesop fable, where he perfected one trick and climbs a tree in order to escape from the dogs. At the same time the solution has to be intelligent and versatile – just like the fox who analyzes numerous strategies to find the best one. Quality experts often face similar challenges – they have to ensure the quality and react quickly and flexibly to unforeseen quality problems. 

How Industrial Intelligence Takes Quality Management to a New Level

29 Oct 2020, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Production

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere: it’s there when we search the internet or drive our smart cars. The explosion of new AI applications is directly related to the digitalization of our society. But AI is also increasingly playing an important role in industry, especially in the metals production. Learn how new technologies like AI or Machine Learning can help improve your production quality and to finally reach the silence on the shopfloor.

Enjoy the Sound of Silence – on the Way To Advanced Quality Management

14 Oct 2020, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, Production, Technology

When you listen to steel and aluminum production – often all you hear is deafening noise as customer satisfaction drops or production costs rise due to missed quality expectations. The wave of digitization offers great potential for optimizing the quality and making it easier to handle at the same time – to finally take a deep breath and enjoy the silence of a smooth shopfloor.

How to Break the Automation Pyramid with the Metals Service Bus

27 Aug 2019, Research, Industry 4.0, Technology, Artificial Intelligence

The organization of systems relevant to metal production has been successfully carried out for many years on the basis of the “automation pyramid”. This structure, however, reaches its limits when it comes to adopting new methods. By eliminating the strict layering of the pyramid, a standard is required that allows these peers to communicate. Learn how the PSIbus technology closes this gap.