Manufacturing consultants provide manufacturers with guidance and experience to boost product quality and overall business success. Operations, profitability, management, structure, and strategy all fall within their remit. That’s why businesses should consider selecting a manufacturing consultant to obtain the information and abilities needed to achieve their business goals.

I immediately thought it would surely be helpful for factory floor workers to translate that data into visualizations in a format that can show you historical trends over time. Then I began building a prototype of an ingestion system for capturing that data. The process was a collaborative back-and-forth effort to get some data into a system where we could show simple charts and visualizations through dashboards.

Digital transformation technology is essential because it allows companies to run the line even if there is a turnover in the labor force. Moreover, it makes training the workforce better, cheaper, and faster while transferring accumulated knowledge and reducing the barrier to proficiency for a new worker starting on the factory floor.

The IML Insights team took a trip to Tochigi, Japan, to Daiwa Steel Tube Industries, a steel tube manufacturing company founded in 1932. We spoke to Yumi Nakayama of the Glocal Strategy Promotion Department about her experience working with the IndustrialML platform, how to deploy a smart factory solution and the future of the manufacturing industry.

Over the last four years, Arjun Chandar, the founder and CEO of IndustrialML, has been building and finely tuning the company to make factories smarter with his enterprise software as a service (SaaS) platform. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Arjun to take him back to where it all started before digging into the details of his fascinating story and garnering his insights from the industry he holds dear.

The IML Insights team took a trip to Tochigi, Japan, to Daiwa Steel Tube Industries, a steel tube manufacturing company founded in 1932. We spoke to Atsushi Yamada, Manager within the Glocal Strategy Promotion Department, about his experience working with the IndustrialML platform, the manufacturing industry, and how using a smart factory system can improve the manufacturing processes.

When it comes to manufacturing, the Millennial and Gen Z generations simply don’t have glowing aspirations to enter the industry—this is a big issue moving forward. These young workers don’t feel they can advance their careers in manufacturing because businesses are often marketed poorly, allowing negative perceptions to proliferate.

The IML Insights team took a trip to Tochigi, Japan, to Daiwa Steel Tube Industries, a steel tube manufacturing company founded in 1932. We had the opportunity to sit down with Kazuhiro Yamasaki, Managing Director of Factory Operations, and talk about his experience working with the IndustrialML platform, the manufacturing industry, and how using a smart factory system can improve manufacturing processes.