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Data-Driven Smart Manufacturing: The Key to Competitive Advantage

  • Advanced Manufacturing
In today’s competitive manufacturing landscape, businesses that can leverage data to drive insights and decision-making have a clear advantage. Data-driven smart manufacturing is the use of data and analytics to improve all aspects of the manufacturing process, from product design and development to production and quality control.

Lantek responds to the evolution of the sheet metal industry in 2020

  • Digital Transformation
The immediate impact of Covid was the need for staff to work from home if possible, which meant that tasks like programming the cutting machines and preparing quotations needed to be quickly made operational from home offices. About 40% of our customers had an immediate need for this capability as soon as lockdown started.

Rob Powell, Commercial Director, Lantek UK talks about Industry 4.0 for sheet metal manufacturers

  • Digital Transformation
Industry 4.0 is the next stage on from the automation systems that many companies within the sheet metal industry are already embracing. We have supplied many CADCAM systems in the UK and we see that manufacturers understand the need for sheet handling systems such as stacker systems for the automated loading of multiple sizes and specifications of material and the unloading, stacking and sorting of finished parts using automated handling systems such as chutes and robots.