Abstract

DEWA, M.T.; VAN DER MERWE, A.F.  and  MATOPE, S.. Digitalisation of shop-floor operations in the South African tool, die, and mould-making industry. S. Afr. J. Ind. Eng. [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.2, pp.153-170. ISSN 2224-7890.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7166/29-2-1899.

Digitalisation has been advocated as a possible strategy to improve the competitiveness of tool, die, and mould-making (TDM) companies in the 21^st century. The recent rise of digital technologies, such as Internet of Things devices, now makes digitalisation an achievable reality. This paper focuses on the digitalisation of shop-floor operations in the South African TDM industry through the development of a novel mobile data collection (MDC) tool known as a shop-floor management system (SMS). The developed SMS was deployed to, and validated in, a selected tooling company for various products. The developed system improved the shop-floor's real-time data collection.

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