Monitoring that makes a difference
In part three of At Your Service, we explore the many ways good monitoring can benefit manufacturers.
In today’s world, consumers want more of everything. More variety, more information on what they are about to buy, and more quality. And, they want all this without having to dig too deep into their pockets.
Monitoring plays a massive role in enabling manufactures to meet these demands while streamlining their operations. Allowing them to track and trace their products so they can pinpoint issues quickly and easily and, as a result, save on costs and downtime. Monitoring, when done right, can also enable manufacturers to provide consumers all the information they want about a product. Essentially, it means manufacturers can kill two birds with one stone – tightening up their supply chain while meeting consumer demands for greater traceability.
Monitoring change
Digital monitoring is also making it far easier for manufacturers to control operations remotely – something which has become especially important in light of COVID-19. For a long period of time in 2020, plenty of factory floors were far quieter than usual, if not closed down. Without people manually checking equipment, manufacturers had to find other ways to track the condition of applications. Digital adoption was the only forward, with the IIoT and smart tools enabling condition-based monitoring (CBM) from afar.
Among the many benefits of remote CBM and CBM in general are a reduction in maintenance checks – i.e., lower overheads – and an ability to react to any issues in near-real time, the latter of which is guaranteed to help your equipment perform better, for longer.
Trust as a tool for change
At SIG we understand the importance of great monitoring, with PAC.TRUST one of several connected pack solutions designed to help our customers in this area. By making use of QR codes and state-of-the-art backend technologies, PAC.TRUST allows manufacturers to monitor every individual product from farm to fork – information they can use to pinpoint issues quickly, in addition to offering consumers more transparency.
Monitor your way to a better future
Monitoring can also have a ripple effect on your business; helping boost your long-term success if done right. And, with consumer demand likely to keep expanding as various industries discover how to offer new and ever more creative products, the chances are monitoring solutions will play an increasingly pivotal role in a business’ future success.
Today, most innovations in monitoring are digital, enabling manufacturers to save even more time and manual effort by offering them a more streamlined approach to managing their supply chain. Solutions like our all-encompassing Asset Health Monitoring, which aims to help manufacturers carry out all their remote monitoring from one platform so they can focus on other more demanding tasks.
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- November 25, 2021