December 1, 2022
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Gain the assurance your mechanical design puts functionality and safety first, using decades of factory floor experience.
Developing a custom automation solution involves many different engineering disciplines, the best solutions seamlessly integrate these disciplines and marry them up with the customers goals to produce a final solution that matches a project brief.
Business Goals
What are the business outcomes that the client is trying to achieve, for example: Return on investment, Health and safety gains, Increased productivity etc.
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Performance Criteria
What performance criteria is the system to be measured on?
- Units / Hour
- Up time %
- Defect Percentage
- Hours run / year
- Expected Machine life
Mechanical criteria
- Product
- Product Mass
- Product geometry
- Handling characteristics
- Product variability
- Number of products
- Environment
- Temperature
- Vibration
- Frequency of access
- Existing equipment
- Footprint
- Power
Key Interfaces
- Physical
- Digital
- Services
- Control Infrastructure (ERP/MRP, existing control systems,
- SCADA, industrial network)