thinkiq, Author at ThinkIQ

Manage Your Floor Operations from the Beach

by thinkiq | May 6, 2022 | Blog

Regardless of the level of sophistication of your systems or the complexity of operations, there is no easy way to monitor a work center today. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems push work onto the floor in batches or via kan bans. Manufacturing Execution or...

Why Quality Control Is Important In Food And Beverage Manufacturing

by thinkiq | May 4, 2022 | Blog

Quality control is important in any industry, but perhaps none more so than the food and beverage industry. Food manufacturers source and manage highly sensitive raw ingredients that consumers continuously depend on, and even a minor incident compromising quality can...

Shop Floor Controls & Manufacturing Execution Systems Meet Computer Vision

by thinkiq | May 2, 2022 | Blog

Computerized Shop Floor Control (SFC) Systems and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) date back over 40 years and were designed to track and document the transformation of raw materials first into work-in-process (WIP) and finally into finished goods. MES systems...

Truck Monitoring Meets Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence

by thinkiq | Apr 29, 2022 | Blog

There has been a great deal of interest in tracking truck movements on the open roads using IoT technology. Some of these systems use the driver’s smartphone and a microcontroller based on GPS/GSM/GPRS technology. The GPS is great at capturing geographic coordinates...

Industry 4.0 Smart Manufacturing: 5 Real World Examples

by thinkiq | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog

Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing: There’s a lot of buzz today, and yet there can still be a lot of confusion about what they are and how they apply in manufacturing. Let’s explore some of the real world ways the digital solutions of Industry 4.0 Smart...