2021 was a special year for Oqton. Overcoming challenges and creating new opportunities, we learned valuable lessons and expanded our vision for future growth. We are grateful to partners, customers, and employees for making all our goals happen and being with us...
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) centres around one core proposition — the digitalisation of data. Over the last decade or more, data has become an extremely valuable commodity. We’re not talking about personal data here, which is an important issue on many...
Have you noticed how frequently the phrases “end-to-end” and “workflow” are utilised as part of the lexicon within the additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing industry these days? There is a good reason for that. It is because users of AM technologies — whether...
Manufacturing Execution System – or MES – can come across as a rather generic term, but understanding the real meaning and implementing it in a factory is about as important as it gets for any manufacturing operation, wherever they are located and however big or...
For years, 3D printing has been heralded as the “future of factories”that will “radically change the world” – but so far, the reality hasn’t exactly lived up to the hype. 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM) as it’s more appropriately termed by the industry,...
Manufacturers we speak to say that they’re gathering industrial IoT (IIoT) data from their factories but aren’t necessarily getting the anticipated insights and benefits they expected from that data. The challenges we see with factory implementation are that many...
Lean manufacturing is a collection of principles which align to accomplish one major goal — identify and minimize non-value-added activities during the production process. Phrased another way, lean production is about “doing more with less” while remaining highly...
Technological innovation drives change—and yes, disruption—in manufacturing. Ever since the first Industrial Revolution, manufacturing has evolved in response to technological advancements. This is often driven by a single catalyst; for instance, Henry Ford’s assembly...
We’ve been on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for a while, and it’s still not clear when or how it will come to fruition. Sure, these massive industrial changes rarely follow a straight line of implementation, though it may seem that way when we look at...
