By adopting digital technology, suppliers can improve their productivity while optimizing material efficiency and standardizing cut part quality through high-precision cutting.
Digital cutting technology’s extremely high level of accuracy optimizes material consumption by minimizing buffer and reducing the scrap rate, dramatically improving productivity.
The following are just a few of the ways digitalized processes contribute to cost optimization in the cutting room.
Digital cutting technology makes it possible to cut material with no buffer between parts — an impossible task using die-presses. The unmatched precision of digital cutting technology substantially lowers material consumption and manufacturing costs.
Digital cutting technology enables superior process capability and repeatability (CPK/CMK), which make it possible to reach the highest industry standard for optimal quality standardization over time.
Digital cutting equipment allows engineers to track KPIs previously impossible to measure and adjust them at will to meet continuous improvement objectives.
Digital processes make it possible to adopt a design-for-manufacturing approach and iterate designs before investing in physical prototypes.
Suppliers can start a new program, change the steering wheel design or overcome a production peak in a matter of days using digital technology.
Digital cutting equipment reduces time to proficiency for new hires by two-thirds, making the estimated turnover cost of manual cutting methods 50%.
Digital cutting solutions enable seamless integration with ERP or MES systems. This allows suppliers to eliminate paper-based reporting and send jobs instantly to the shop floor.
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