Manufacturing Insights | TwinThread

Why accept being forced to physically go somewhere to inspect operations when you can “see” critical processes right from your desk? This is the question you should be asking when allocating your subject-matter experts in the field. There’s no reason to have your domain experts bouncing here, there ...

We live in a world where the only way to stay competitive is to know what's going on with your operations 24/7. There’s no good reason for someone needing to be somewhere specific to understand what's happening at the factory they oversee. Your operations continue on, whether you're there or not. ...

Through the better part of a century, the industrial sector has shifted from operating with no data whatsoever, to attempting to manually manage and interpret large swaths of data (to no avail), to fully curated data sets that allow problem-solvers to exploit the operational information that ...

With all great optimization efforts comes planning. There are long-term plans and short-term plans (otherwise known as priorities). Within a manufacturing environment, planning in the long-term involves predictive maintenance and proactive strategies. When you’re proactive, you’re identifying ...

An article from the Harvard Business Review has made it clear that executives understand the importance of AI being meaningfully implemented within their respective organizations - “...84% know they need to scale AI across their businesses to achieve their strategic growth objectives…”. However, ...

The greatest threat to success in production is unplanned downtime or, in a worst-case scenario, unforeseen catastrophic failure of an asset. It is for this reason there has been a very evident and aggressive evolution toward the prevention of such circumstances. Asset maintenance is, of course, ...

Picture this as a use case for remote manufacturing: One of your pump experts is capable of monitoring your entire fleet of pumps globally and across your entire operation, instead of just interpreting data on a per-asset or per-location basis. Imagine what that could mean with regard to scaling ...

Continuous improvement, as a concept, is nothing new. Maybe that’s why it’s time to brush away the cobwebs and reimagine what continuous improvement can be. AI and machine learning technologies are bringing new life and innovation to continuous improvement and are truly empowering operations teams ...

Be impatient when it comes to improvement. The less time your domain experts are waiting for a predictive solution to provide what they need, the more time they are implementing optimization (resulting in more profit).

TwinThread's CEO, Erik Udstuen, interviewed by GrayMatter's emPOWERUP Podcast We encourage you to go have a listen to the conversation our CEO, Erik Udstuen, participated in during his time on GrayMatter's emPOWERUP Podcast. The discussion explored the various ways in which predictive analytics can ...

TwinThread’s CEO, Erik Udstuen, interviewed by Next Frontier Capital

For most customers, the cost of production, uptime, and quality will always trump energy consumption as a priority. But what if you didn’t have to make that trade off? Imagine being able to easily see - in real-time - your optimum machine settings and process setups that minimize energy while still ...