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Customer Stories: Composite Machining for Components of Scale
Facteon has worked closely with a global customer to design, manufacture, build and install a CNC rotary axis. This machine will produce large, composite aerospace components. We specialise in the custom design and manufacture of precision equipment that supports the manufacturing process.
Five Takeaways from China’s Largest Automation Show
Recently the Facteon team visited China’s largest automation show, China International Industry Fair (CIIF), to take the pulse of automation and factory technologies in China. We also met with various Facteon partners and saw their latest innovations in action.
Universal Robots & Facteon: A Partnership Between Innovators
Facteon is pleased to announce our partnership with Universal Robots, the undisputed market leader in the cobot space.
Southern SaaS 2019: Three Key Takeaways
Facteon’s Head of Industrial IoT, Reinaldo Silva, attended Callaghan Innovation’s Southern SaaS 2019. He shares the key learnings from the event and how these have shaped Facteon’s own Industrial IoT (IIoT) product offerings.
Facteon People: Introducing Steven Wu, Service Manager
As a science fiction movie buff, Steven knows Star Trek from Star Wars. He’s also a maintenance expert with over two decades of experience on factory floors across the globe.
Starting a Lean Journey: Where we're at & where we're heading
Born from an international manufacturer that embraces Kaizen manufacturing principals, Facteon has inherited these principals. Over time, our business has evolved. With new opportunities and personnel, we decided that it was time to re-examine the state of our operations. The lean principles on which we were founded must inform every stage of our business’ operations. The journey to get back in touch with our lean roots started in June 2019.
Facteon China's GM Unveils the Capabilities of our New Facility
Facteon China’s rapidly growing team has recently moved into a new facility in Qingdao, Shandong, China. The team and our business had quite literally outgrown its previous Qingdao location. So, we made the move to a state-of-the-art facility. Prior to moving into our new location, Facteon China served as a regional support office for China-based customers operating Facteon production lines.
Customer Stories: Maintenance Visibility & Digitisation Across Multiple Sites
One of New Zealand’s largest bottling companies is working with Facteon to implement a new manufacturing system to manage the maintenance of more than 700 machines across multiple plants.
Turning Industry 4.0 Talk into Impact
Industry 4.0, Industrial IoT and digitisation are movements currently influencing the decisions of manufacturers across industries and countries. The applications of Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT technologies are substantial. These span from data collection and instrumentation through to smart automation of equipment for greater efficiencies, improving product quality and yield.
We Do It All: Custom CNC, Manual Milling & Turning
Many of Facteon’s Machine Shop projects are critical to our clients' successes. So, we’re sworn to secrecy via non-disclosure agreements. However, there are a few projects we can share with you. Our CNC machines, manual mills and large format machines have been working overtime.
The Quest for Improved Reliability: Industry 4.0 Technology & Predictive Maintenance
Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promises to bring changes to the way predictive maintenance is done and the implications that has for how we manage factories. Predictive maintenance isn’t new, with various forms of condition monitoring being used within industry for decades, but in the Industry 4.0 environment the concept is taken to a new level due to the volume and detail of data collected, the software tools available to analyse that data, and the technologies on hand to make use of the results as actionable intelligence. For businesses willing to make the investment – not just in dollars but in time and training to get the maximum advantage from the technologies – predictive maintenance promises to deliver greatly improved up-time, significant savings and productivity benefits.
Industry 4.0 Insights: Top Smart Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know
Today marks 12 months since the launch and commercialisation of Facteon’s Industrial IoT product range. In that time, our Industrial IoT team has quadrupled in size and capability. We have also launched our products across the globe (that’s the beauty of the Cloud).