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COVER STORY

REAPING BENEFITS OF
TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

Advanced technologies such as the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and
additive manufacturing are proving to be a boon for the manufacturing industry,
bringing in benefits including reduction in the cost of production, downtime, and
errors, and improvement in the speed of operations. The case in point is a testimony
to how IIoT-enabled metal processing machines can prove themselves crucial with
their multitude of advantages.

Source: Magic Wand Media

ARVIND REDDY MARAM I ndustry 4.0, as many First, we start with understand- CTL machines play an important
Director would already know is ing how much does it cost in case role in multiple sectors including
yzThings Technologies the current phase of an such a machine goes down for Aerospace, Automotive and Con-
Pvt Ltd Industrial transformation (IX), unplanned reasons. Then we sumer Goods. In general, these
arvind.maram@ which interconnects – through generalize the concept to un- machines’ primary function is to
yzthings.com the use of the internet – people, derstand the impact of machine take a coiled flat metal roll, decoil
processes, and machines. downtime in a real scenario. the roll, level it and cut it to desired
Here an attempt is made to pres- From the calculations deduced in lengths. These operations are per-
ent a case wherein a metal pro- the article, we arrive at an hourly formed semi-automatically or au-
cessing machine such as a Cut to downtime cost and then extrap- tomatically. Most new machines
Length (CTL) machine fitted with olate the same on a real-world are automatic, with complex con-
Industrial IoT devices helped re- case to arrive at the total cost of trol electronics for precision mo-
duce downtime of that machine. downtime in that scenario. tion and hydraulic control.

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