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The ArchFX Platform: The Proven Fast Track to Transformation
The ArchFX Platform empowers electronics manufacturers to reclaim 20-60% in valuable machine performance and line utilization losses. Every day, Arch extracts data from thousands of SMT machines worldwide, accelerating Industry 4.0 and enabling real-time visibility...
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Finding Hidden Utilization in Manufacturing Machine Data
The Cost of Lost Asset Utilization Lost utilization is expensive. It’s as simple as that. Every misplaced part, every recipe imbalance, even if imperceptible, costs money. This is especially true for contract manufacturers with electronics manufacturing...
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2020: A Year of Growth and Connection
The accomplishments of our team this past year represent something more than hard work by exceptional people. They represent the unification of a diverse, distributed team working through extraordinary circumstances and times, in an industry marked by an indomitable spirit, supported by world-class partners and customers.
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The Hidden Cost of Data Silos
In many cases, the limiting factor for how quickly you can solve problems with data is how quickly you can put together a clean, unified dataset. Once you have clean data, it’s straightforward to get value from it.
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The Last 1%: What Can You Do With It?
If your product quality is at 99%, you’re probably wondering what the last 1% could possibly be worth. Using Industry 4.0 techniques and technology, we find it’s not so much what’s in the 1% that’s valuable- it’s what’s hiding behind it.
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Remote Factory Monitoring Installations: Can It Really Be Done?
Remote solutions are more critical than ever before. Here, we describe the process of a fully-remote installation of our factory monitoring platform.
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Restarting Manufacturing Operations After Lockdown: A Flex Shanghai Case Study
In the wake of COVID-19, many are looking at manufacturing operations that have already restarted. Many manufacturers in North America and Europe are now pausing manufacturing operations due to the coronavirus pandemic just as manufacturers in China did previously....
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Leading Manufacturing Operations Through the Coronavirus Pandemic
Executive Summary The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting that, in our modern connected world, manufacturers must now be ready to respond promptly to Black Swan events that pose challenges for business operations and business continuity, both in the short term and...
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Arch Systems Partners with Flex for Manufacturing Data Transformation
Arch Systems announces an agreement with Flex, the global supply chain and manufacturing company, to supply real-time access to and analysis of manufacturing data at its facilities.
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Arch Systems embraces a distributed team
Arch Systems embraces the trends towards more distributed teams working with people across the world via digital technology both to empower our current people to live their best lives as well as to find the best future collaborators wherever you happen to be. The Arch team now has collaborators in 6 different countries as well as many different cities within the US.
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