The fabrication industry involves complex processes where every step plays a critical role. Your best welders actively look for opportunities to explore techniques to improve your operational metrics. And while the productivity of welding and cutting operations is determined by many factors, having the ability to easily implement data insights to improve overall performance provides your business with a distinct competitive advantage. In this article, we’ll explore the areas of opportunity where data can be used to improve your operational KPIs.

Uncover Your Hidden Advantage

Embracing welding software and connectivity solutions is the easiest way to uncover your hidden competitive advantage.  Solutions that streamline or automate processes significantly reduce wasted time and resources, reveal opportunities to improve, optimize or automate processes, and provide a clear, data-based strategy for increasing operational efficiency, capacity, safety, and quality.

Digital solutions offer decision-makers:

• Simplicity – A simple platform to view fabrication data or documentation highlighting hidden opportunities for improvement.

• Insight – Access to real-time insights and records to maximize operational capacity, equipment health, worker safety, and process compliance.

• Control –A 360-degree view of your operational data for strategic, data-driven decision-making in order to achieve desired growth.

Top Benefits of Embracing Digital Solutions

Tracking every aspect of your operation’s workflow is a major challenge for shops of all sizes. Digital solutions that are designed with you in mind offer the required simplicity, insight, and control needed to compete in an increasingly data-driven marketplace. Here are just a few of the important operational KPIs where digital solutions provide an operational advantage. 

Maximize Welding and Cutting Productivity

Digital welding and cutting solutions save time and money by allowing you to program equipment for optimal weld and/or cut quality and productivity. Software applications highlight various productivity bottlenecks, help to improve overall safety and minimize downtime. 
Digital solutions standardize your welding and cutting processes with the right software solutions in place for your operation, and improvements to process, production, and profits are realized almost immediately. Digitizing your operation provides decision-makers with accurate and actionable operational data for budgeting, planning, and more.

Minimizes your Robot Programming Time

Offline Robot Programming (OLRP) is the ideal way to manage complex robotic applications by automating manual programming processes. Manual programming processes often require on-site expertise and halt production. With OLRP, you can program your next job in a secure, virtual, offline environment, minimizing process disruption and maximizing your ability to effectively scale your operation.

Optimize Your Fleet Management

Digital software solutions provide welding equipment tracking and optimization for your fleet from any location. View the status and location of your assets, program safe and proven processes to deliver consistent results and improve safety. Take the guesswork out of equipment servicing with predictive maintenance data to keep your operation running smoothly.   

Digitalize your Welding Documentation

Welding management software empowers you to gain superior control over PQRs (Procedure Qualification Records), WPS (Welding Procedure Specifications), and WPQs (Welder Performance Qualifications) tools to automate and streamline documentation administration, improving compliance, safety, and consistency in process and results. Software designed with fabricators in mind effectively reduces administrative paperwork with an easy-to-use and feature-rich interface. 

How to Get Started

Digital solutions connecting data, machinery, and processes to improve operational efficiency, quality, and safety are a competitive game-changer. Choosing a solutions partner is an important decision. An ideal partner is one who can quickly and expertly understand your operational challenges and provide the support you need to achieve your desired results. That’s where we come in.

About InduSuite

InduSuite is a brand-agnostic portfolio of software applications developed by fabricators and engineers to revolutionize your workflow, quality, and business performance. InduSuite software applications are compatible with all major welding, cutting, and robotics systems used in shops around the world. For more information about InduSuite visit https://indusuite.com.