{"id":201272,"date":"2024-12-11T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/schaeffler-3d-scanned-48-of-its-factories-efficiency-surged-80"},"modified":"2024-12-11T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:38:13","slug":"schaeffler-3d-scanned-48-of-its-factories-efficiency-surged-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/schaeffler-3d-scanned-48-of-its-factories-efficiency-surged-80","title":{"rendered":"Schaeffler 3D Scanned 48 Of Its Factories, Efficiency Surged 80%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/schaeffler-3d-scanned-48-of-its-factories-efficiency-surged-802.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For giant manufacturers, such as Germany-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schaeffler.com\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.schaeffler.com\/en\/\" aria-label=\"Schaeffler Group\">Schaeffler Group<\/a> with nearly 100 factories worldwide, 10 in the U.S., streamlining production of precision industrial components is paramount. When it began to digitize its operations in 2016 to get more real-time data from the shop floor, Schaeffler realized that it wasn\u2019t enough to digitize the manufacturing processes, inventory, workforce, and logistics; it also had to digitize the physical manufacturing environment itself.<\/p>\n<p>Its efforts to 3D scan each facility and create full-color lifelike digital twins, has, so far, resulted in significant time and cost savings. \u201cProject lead times for data capture are up to 80% shorter compared to traditional methods,\u201d says Roberto Henkel, Schaeffler\u2019s senior VP of digitalization and operations IT. The full-color digital twins of its factories enables \u201cfar more efficient communication and planning among departments and third-party vendors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the company accelerates its factory relocation to shorten supply chains and move production closer to customers, accurate factory digital twins have played a key role and also delivered some unexpected benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For giant manufacturers, such as Germany-based Schaeffler Group with nearly 100 factories worldwide, 10 in the U.S., streamlining production of precision industrial components is paramount. When it began to digitize its operations in 2016 to get more real-time data from the shop floor, Schaeffler realized that it wasn\u2019t enough to digitize the manufacturing processes, inventory, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}