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Strictly speaking, we don't need it. But there's real demand in the industry to use networked IoT devices wherever possible and harvest the data so you can do
by iSnow 3y ago
Strictly speaking, we don't need it.
But there's real demand in the industry to use networked IoT devices wherever possible and harvest the data so you can do things like QC (hand an audit trail to your customer that all bolts have been tightened with the exactly right torque) or preventive maintenance.
No one wants to fall back to non-networked ways of manufacturing.
- bobim 3y agoI don’t see how this is working. The QC audit will just testify that a bolt, somewhere, has been tightened. Or we need nuts with chips that communicate with the wrench and the part it’s fastening.
- bigbillheck 3y agoYou'd also be logging time of tightening, location of the wrench (to some granularity), user of the wrench, and so on, and on the other side you'd be tracking the state of whatever it is you're building so you know where it is at all times and can cross-reference.
- iSnow 3y agoYou also track who tightened the bolt when with which torque (could be wrong if the machine is defective and that is exactly what you want to be able to audit). Some machines are even able to tell in which spatial position they were used - kind of a micro-GPS. Some trials are running with AR glasses that show the position of a bolt to the operator and also log the actions.