NEW YORK, NY—
By the end of this decade, manufacturers worldwide will generate 4.4 zettabytes of data. Many organizations currently lack the expertise needed to leverage this massive influx of data fully, resulting in inefficiencies and revenue losses of hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
TUVE, Sweden—Every time an assembler uses an electric fastening tool at the Volvo Group truck factory here, the data from the operation is logged and stored. Engineers are now using that data to increase quality.
Assembly and test systems must have the ability to gather and analyze significant amounts of data at each step of the manufacturing process.
April 10, 2024
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