{"id":25896,"date":"2020-10-27T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecnologiaparalaindustria.com\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:55:59","slug":"como-la-digitalizacion-industrial-esta-transformando-la-manufactura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecnologiaparalaindustria.com\/en\/como-la-digitalizacion-industrial-esta-transformando-la-manufactura\/","title":{"rendered":"How industrial digitalisation is transforming manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manufacturing is no longer about large plants and long assembly lines. Gone are the days of paper drawings, 2D schematics, specification sheets, and punch cards. Now, processes are digitised. Designs are completed in 3D CAD files, digital twins exist to mirror the objects being built, and everything is connected through the Internet of Things.<\/p>\r\n

The drawings are not transmitted to the workshops in books, but are sent to tablets designed specifically for that purpose. Finally, the paperless office has arrived in factories, although not 100% yet, we are well on our way.<\/p>\r\n

In this regard, we will now look at how digitisation is transforming manufacturing and what this means for companies in the industry. To begin with, digitisation is the process of taking non-digital information formats and converting them into digital formats.<\/p>\r\n

Mail to email, spreadsheets to Excel, typewriters to Google Docs, clay models to CAD files\u2014the list goes on, and that has only been the beginning. The key is that processes and systems remain the same when processes are digitised. For example, if your process is to obtain a signature on a design to approve it for the manufacturing floor, then the digitisation process could be an electronic signature on the CAD file.<\/p>\r\n

That's digitalisation. So, How has it transformed the manufacturing industry? We will examine this here.<\/b>:<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Manufacturing will move much faster.<\/b>\r\n

    The first thing we are seeing as digitisation transforms the manufacturing industry is the speed of manufacturing. Driven by rapidly changing consumer tastes and a fast pace of new product introduction\/innovation, manufacturing must find the best way to adapt.<\/p>\r\n

    Digitisation provides an instant boost to productivity, enabling projects to move forward more quickly and manufacturers to meet more aggressive deadlines.<\/p>\r\n

    Specifically, manufacturers will be able to move quickly from design to floor and vice versa as changes are made by the engineering team.<\/div>\r\n

    At present, this process is extremely manual in many circumstances. 3D designs are converted into 2D specification books, and then those books are delivered to machinists on the shop floor, who review and \u201cwrite\u201d (literally, mark up) the books.<\/p>\r\n

    These books are then returned to the engineering teams for review. And within that process, there are many inefficiencies:<\/p>\r\n