Avantguard: Enhancing throughput and quality

In production, every second counts. Ensure your assembly is optimized with the right solutions to safeguard your reputation and your bottom line.

Faulty repairs, whether due to human error or other factors, comprise 30-40% of product recalls and safety concerns. These errors can result in serious failures that undermine product safety, performance, and reliability, significantly impacting your assembly through potential bottlenecks, wasted labor, and quality issues. The impact of faulty repairs cannot be overstated.

Safeguarding your assembly requires attention and a solution that can help prevent quality risks in real time. This solution enables operators to promptly correct errors and minimize the time and costs incurred on rework and repairs later in the assembly process. This approach enables manufacturers to simultaneously reduce the cost of scrap materials and protect their reputation while enhancing production and improving uptime.

Introducing Avantguard, Atlas Copco’s ultimate error-proofing solution designed to achieve efficiency and unmatched product quality in manufacturing operations. Integrating Avantguard into your daily assembly can enhance production and prevent headaches, offering a promising future in the industry.

During production, every second counts. The more time operators spend correcting mistakes, the less productivity and the higher the costs. Faulty repairs are no better, leading to increased recall costs and warranty claims. To catch mistakes in real-time and eliminate faulty repairs, the answer is simple: Get it right the first time to safeguard your reputation and enhance product safety.

It all starts with the most basic component: the fasteners. These seemingly simple components play a crucial role in maintaining products' structural integrity, safety, and reliability across all industries. Improper fastening can pose significant safety risks to your customers.

To protect them, your reputation, and your profits, you must integrate smart solutions that analyze your production in real time and alert you to potential risks and errors.

Avantguard is the solution. Developed with tool interlock features, Avantguard ensures reliable and consistent fastening processes by selecting the appropriate tool with the correct program, maintaining the tightening sequence, and capturing tightening results for repair analysis.

On the line, mistakes happen. Bolts are missed, sequences aren’t followed, components are missing, the list is endless. If not caught in time, these mistakes can lead to bigger issues down the road. From high costs related to defects, rework, and repairs, increased downtime, and even costly warranty claims, catching these errors the moment they occur is vital to the success of your facility.

With solutions that provide operator guidance through the assembly process, these mistakes can be flagged and corrected the moment they occur. With this proactive approach, you and your operators will save time, money, and energy. This ensures the success of your assembly by minimizing the likelihood of errors and preventing them from being overlooked until later stages.

Avantguard provides comprehensive operator guidance, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in production processes through step-by-step instructions and real-time feedback.

Depending on the industry, losing just one hour of production ranges from an average loss of $39,000 to more than $2 million. Considering the average manufacturing facility experiences around 20 downtime incidents monthly, the costs can quickly add up.

To ensure product quality and protect profits, manufacturers must integrate intelligent solutions into their rework stations to improve the rework process. Avantguard is the solution to assist here as well.

Whether you’re facing high levels of scrap and rework at a single station, an assembly line, or across the entire shop floor, Avantguard is the solution you need. With Avantguard, you can easily scale the solution and set up a rework station to best suit your needs. Whether you need a stationary or mobile station, Avantguard can handle it all, helping you streamline the rework process and stay on top of quality risks that may affect your facility later in production.

Avantguard also tracks all your NOK products, providing full traceability throughout the process. This information includes missed or incorrect tasks from all stations, parts, and products, providing you with a full overview of the process and the next steps for the rework or repair station to prevent defective products from leaving the plant. The solution adds traceability to help identify the root causes, such as missing or loose tightening, incorrect or defective parts, or the assembly process, to speed up the repair process and get you and your operators back on track.

Related: Read our article, ‘Optimizing Production Efficiency with Avantguard Rework Stations’ to learn more about Avantguard’s impressive rework station capabilities.

Ensuring the safety of your assembly requires careful attention. While it's true that humans can make mistakes, with the right solutions in place, you can have a reliable system constantly monitoring your production and identifying any errors that may arise on the line.

Avantguard is the solution you need to minimize the risk of downtime due to errors and rework. But it doesn’t stop there. If rework is unavoidable, Avantguard supports rework stations by providing clear feedback and steps to resolve the issue. With Avantguard, you can enhance both the quality of the rework process and achieve improved uptime and throughput.

Are you interested in learning more about Avantguard? Our experts are here to help! Contact us today to discover more about our impressive solutions and schedule a demo.