Improving productivity and consistency is something that many manufacturing facilities strive to achieve. How you achieve those qualities depends on where you could improve your assembly. For one aerospace company, they wanted to achieve better consistency regarding the tightening programs each plant was running on their controllers.
Before coming to Atlas Copco, our customer had hired someone to manually track their tightening programs. When they realized they needed more consistency and a faster process, this company turned to us for answers. Our experts knew just the solution they needed: ToolsTalk 2 software on a single server. This would give them the traceability they desired while reducing the chance of errors and achieving the kind of productivity that you might expect from a manual process. Keep reading to learn more!
Traceability on the line
Keeping track of tightening programs is essential to ensure that each application is completed accurately. However, manually keeping track of the tightening programs can become tricky, especially if this is being done for multiple plants. That’s the dilemma our customer was facing.
Our ToolsTalk 2 software
ToolsTalk 2 is one of Atlas Copco’s software solutions. This one, in particular, is a server-based software solution that gives you quick and easy configuration as well as complete visibility and traceability to your entire line structure. In our customer’s case, they were trying to achieve this manually. By offering them ToolsTalk 2 on a single server, we were able to provide just what they needed in a faster and more accurate solution.
ToolsTalk 2 is able to provide our customer with improved productivity, increased uptime, full line control, reduced defects, and quick and easy line configuration, unlike their previous solution, which was tedious, took longer to complete, and was less accurate due to its nature and the greater possibility of human error. Furthermore, this solution enabled them to access data at any time about either plant, thus making programming and changes much easier, faster, and more efficient than before.
Implementation of ToolsTalk 2: An update
Since implementation, our customer has found great success with our software. They are now benefiting from easier shareability of their tightening programs between two of their plants. Additionally, they are delighted that this software alerts them to software updates for all the controllers in one location. This has allowed our customer to keep up to date on important information pertaining to their tools or the plants.
Why choose Atlas Copco?
Our experts are determined to find the right solution for you. No matter your needs, we will work with you to find a solution that satisfies everyone.
In this case, our customer needed a unique solution that allowed them all the features and benefits that ToolsTalk 2 can provide; however, they also needed full traceability of both their plants in one location. So, we modified their ToolsTalk 2 licenses, enabling them full traceability of both plants on just one server. This provided them with improved productivity, quality, and visibility of their assembly.
Could your manufacturing facility benefit from improved productivity, increased uptime, full line control, reduced defects, and quick and easy line configuration? Then ToolsTalk 2 might be the software solution for you. Contact Atlas Copco to learn more and to schedule a demo today!