Optimize and adapt: Avantguard empowers smart manufacturing

Is your plant dynamic enough? Avantguard ensures it is! Dive into this article to discover how Avantguard empowers your plant with real-time operator guidance, error-proofing, and data-driven optimization.

Today, your manufacturing facility's success relies heavily on its adaptability. As we continue to embrace Industry 4.0 for advanced technologic advancements, we must also accept some of its overlooked challenges that can wreak havoc on your production. Regular updates to the product portfolio, driven by various product variants and more options for customers, necessitate that your operators utilize cutting-edge technology to ensure assembly remains seamless and free of errors.

Once the potential of Industry 4.0 is realized, the opportunities are endless. As we explain in our Smart Integrated Assembly concept, when we combine innovative tools and solutions on the line that can collect data, flag errors, and streamline assembly, we can optimize the way you do business and react to changes on the fly. At Atlas Copco, we are revolutionizing manufacturing operations with assembly tools and solutions developed to cater to our customers’ needs. Further, by leveraging the adaptability potential of these solutions, we can cater to customers’ needs and desires like never before. Embrace Industry 4.0 with Avantguard and realize the true capabilities of your facility.

Discover Avantguard–the web-based error-proofing software solution revolutionizing our manufacturing! Avantguard adapts to the assembly process and optimizes the step-by-step operator guidance to the exact requirements of the product variants and options that need to be built at that time. Keep reading to uncover how this innovative solution can adapt seamlessly to your needs, thus improving productivity, quality, and profitability and ensuring the satisfaction of both the operators and your customers.

The world around us is evolving rapidly; we must adapt to these changes to stay relevant. The organization's sustained success is fundamentally tied to its capacity to evolve and innovate through the diverse tools and solutions we employ. With the latest innovations, we can continuously adapt to internal and external changes that may hinder us, allowing customers to adapt new products or variants quickly and efficiently, along with any updates to current processes. Error-proofing assembly in real time is one way to stay ahead of the competition and remain profitable.

We’ve come a long way since the first industrial revolution. Back then, it was powered by steam and gas. Today, manufacturing looks very different, and changes are occurring more rapidly. To keep up with demands, we must integrate smart software and solutions to collect data, flag errors, and remain versatile to our fluctuating needs.

This is where a solution such as Avantguard can help. Built with intuitive on-screen operator guidance, this web-based error-proofing software solution ensures the tools are activated at the right time and with the correct tightening program, eliminating the risk of operators using the tools at the wrong time or with the wrong parameters for the task.

Additionally, the solution can adapt to the assembly process and enhance the step-by-step operator guidance to meet the precise requirements of the product variants and options being constructed at that moment. This can be accomplished using Avantguard alone or by connecting to an existing Manufacturing Execution System (MES) or Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) solution to help drive the process. By integrating Avantguard with your existing systems, the solution can obtain the correct information to select the appropriate assembly steps in the right sequence.

You must fully understand your assembly to be able to enhance and streamline your operations. This will make your production more accurate, profitable, and productive. By integrating solutions that collect data and provide traceability throughout the assembly process, you can improve how you do business.

Thankfully, the data collected by Avantguard and the results generated by ToolsNet 8 can be used to guide operators through the rework and repair processes for faulty and defective products. With ToolsNet 8 at your operator’s side, you’ll be able to:

• Detect trends early​
• Prevent production halts​
• Experience rapid response to quality issues​
• Enhance production efficiency through analysis​

To remain relevant, we must adapt to the rapidly evolving world around us. By integrating smart software and solutions into our daily processes, we can better understand our complex assembly information, which enables us to enhance production, improve quality, and remain competitive in the fast-changing market.

Avantguard is one way we can achieve this. This smart software solution offers step-by-step operator guidance and data collection capabilities for manufacturers to use to their advantage by significantly reducing quality-related issues and costs, streamlining assembly, and more. Further, by coupling Avantguard with ToolsNet 8, you can reap even more benefits through ToolsNet 8’s ability to generate product reports and identify areas for improvement.

Related: Watch our on-demand webinar ‘Avantguard: The Future of Error-Proofing Software in Assembly’ to learn more about the importance of error-proofing your assembly and how Avantguard simplifies and enhances access to error-proofing.

Are you ready to improve your productivity, quality, and profitability and ensure the satisfaction of both the operators and your customers? Then Avantguard might be the solution for you. Contact our experts today to learn more about this innovative web-based software solution and to book a product demonstration.