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AUTO MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

ADVANCING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS

Manufacturing technology in the automobile industry is directed to a
place where there are a lot of experts in AI and machine learning. Digits
are driving physics.

Source: MMS

Robots driven by information are given 'a better picture of reality'.

hen you talk with different information streams ments and adjustments in ma-
W Tim Shinbara, Vice to the controller’. Information chining are possible.
“It is important to normalize the
President and Chief
about the environment. Vibra-
Technology Officer, AMT—The tions. Stiffness data. Information data so that it can be used for an-
Association For Manufacturing streams that can be translated alytics,” he says. Given the num-
Technology, you might think into what could be considered ber of inputs, this can be heavy
that the discussion is going to be actionable intelligence. lifting, data-wise.
focused on physical things like, Shinbara says that machine tool Some of this work is being done
well, machines. And were you to vendors and academic research- in the cloud. But he says that
think that, you’d be wrong. ers alike are working on systems several companies are perform-
Because when he talks about the that will help ‘tune’ machines ing the work off the machine
on-going advances in manufac- so that operations can be per- but closer to the operation, such
turing technology they are large- formed to meet requirements. as at the work cell or factory
ly predicated on digital tools. There will be, he says, much floor level.
Machine learning algorithms, ar- greater consistency from part to Although there are plenty of
GARY S VASILASH tificial intelligence, and the like. part to part. companies working on this
Editor-In-Chief
Gardner Business Media And when the subject turns to While there is a significant tech—machine builders, control
gsv@autobeatonline. more tangible things like ma- amount of existing sensors and vendors and third-party soft-
com
chining center spindles, the instrumentation available on ware providers—and although
point he makes is that advanced machines at present, Shinba- Shinbara says that there is really
integral motor-type spindles ra says this will be amplified in a noticeable acceleration in the
are not only providing quick scope such that a comprehensive work that is being accomplished,
response times to G-codes but suite of inputs will be analysed it is still not off-the-shelf avail-
are providing ‘a whole suite of and evaluated so that improve- able. Yet.

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