Festo partnered with Octotronic to develop a “Digital Rework” concept aimed at improving decision-making processes for operators, ensuring efficient rework of defective products, and reducing waste.
FESTO is a global player and independent family-owned company based in Esslingen am Neckar. Since its inception, Festo has set standards in industrial automation and technical education, contributing to the sustainable development of the environment, economy, and society. The company provides pneumatic and electrical automation technology to 300,000 customers in over 35 industries. The LifeTech sector, including medical technology and laboratory automation, is gaining increasing importance.
Festo sought to optimize the rework process for products that fail the final quality inspection. The objective was to provide operators with better decision-making tools, ensure comprehensive documentation of rework actions, and ultimately reduce the amount of waste generated.
Octotronic and Festo collaborated to integrate existing data systems and create a “Digital Rework” system that supports operators in their daily tasks and captures valuable knowledge from rework activities.
Key Achievements
Needs Assessment: Detailed on-site analysis to understand objectives and initial conditions.
Concept Development: Creation of a comprehensive concept and definition of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with prioritized functionalities.
System Integration: Utilization of existing data structures and systems, integration into a Data Lake House for data transformation and analysis.
Closed-Loop Process: Implementation of a system where rework actions are recorded, analyzed, and used to continuously improve the process.
The implementation brought significant improvements:
The digitalization of our rework process by Octotronic has accelerated our workflows. Thanks to their solution, we were able to reduce our rework effort by 30%. Additionally, access to our data has been significantly sped up by a Superset dashboard. Now, we can effortlessly access product data from the past 5 years and analyze and filter it interactively. Octotronic has helped us work more efficiently and opened up new analysis possibilities. We are very satisfied with their professional and customer-friendly approach.
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