SELECT LANGUAGE ECATALOG ORDERNET DISTRIBUTOR LOCATOR SALES LOCATOR CONTACT COMPANY PRODUCTS KEY MARKETS LITERATURE NEWSROOM Home NewsRoom 2021 11 Warner Electric Deploys Mbrain Factory Intellegence System Back To Newsroom Warner Electric deploys “MBrain”, a factory intelligence system that provides enhanced process control, order traceability and operator support November 18, 2021 Facility Announcement Warner Electric, a brand of Altra Industrial Motion Corp. and global market leader in electromagnetic clutch and brake technologies for demanding applications, has chosen MTEK’s MBrain, a method-centric software tool, to digitize its high-volume/high-mix manufacturing operations at its plant in Columbia City, Indiana. The goal was to connect a diverse array of machines, including CNCs, hydro presses, delta robots and testers, to read, visualize and analyze machine and process data, such as real time SPC, yield analysis, changeover metrics and OEE, as well as digitizing the first Article Inspection and documentation for change-over and work instructions. “Warner Electric has a strong culture of engagement by every individual on our shop floor. For us, choosing a software platform that enhances team member productivity by leveraging process, product and component data to support their work, while automating non-value added time, was essential”, says Sean Bracken, senior manufacturing engineer and quality manager at Warner Electric. MBrain’s advanced data collection, analysis and improvement functionalities, enables Warner Electric to improve cycle times, stop times, control machine pressure, and identify micro stops, etc. MBrain will also allow Warner Electric to eliminate thousands of pages of paper by deploying dynamic work instructions, fully integrated to the manufacturing operations – freeing up time for the shift leaders to focus on throughput. With AI functionality, the system can signal deviations and abnormal patterns in real time. This enables the factory to get insights about what to improve, and to manage the machines even better. This will lead to longer machine and equipment life, improved product quality, decreased scrap and more efficient production flow. “We’re very pleased that we have the ability to scale the platform ourselves, across the shop floor. With the system’s no-code design, we can adapt and adopt this product as we wish. And the best part is we don’t have to rely on consultants”, adds Bracken. David Ebling, president of Warner Electric, commented. “It was impressive to see how extremely smooth the deployment was, as the system was up and running, creating value, in less than one week, with no impact on production as machine data was read immediately. I’m convinced that MBrain will support our ongoing Kaizen journey of continuous improvement, as the capability and power of the method-centric system has become a central part of our digitization vision beyond Industry 4.0”. Visit: Warner Electric Browse News Archives Select Month January 2014 ( 1 ) March 2014 ( 1 ) May 2014 ( 1 ) July 2014 ( 1 ) August 2014 ( 1 ) November 2014 ( 1 ) February 2015 ( 1 ) March 2015 ( 1 ) April 2015 ( 1 ) May 2015 ( 2 ) July 2015 ( 1 ) August 2015 ( 2 ) September 2015 ( 2 ) November 2015 ( 2 ) January 2016 ( 1 ) February 2016 ( 1 ) May 2016 ( 3 ) July 2016 ( 1 ) August 2016 ( 2 ) October 2016 ( 3 ) November 2016 ( 2 ) December 2016 ( 2 ) January 2017 ( 1 ) February 2017 ( 3 ) April 2017 ( 1 ) May 2017 ( 1 ) June 2017 ( 1 ) July 2017 ( 2 ) August 2017 ( 1 ) September 2017 ( 2 ) October 2017 ( 2 ) November 2017 ( 3 ) March 2018 ( 1 ) April 2018 ( 2 ) June 2018 ( 1 ) July 2018 ( 1 ) August 2018 ( 1 ) September 2018 ( 1 ) November 2018 ( 3 ) December 2018 ( 1 ) January 2019 ( 1 ) March 2019 ( 1 ) April 2019 ( 1 ) May 2019 ( 1 ) June 2019 ( 1 ) July 2019 ( 1 ) September 2019 ( 3 ) October 2019 ( 1 ) November 2019 ( 3 ) January 2020 ( 2 ) February 2020 ( 3 ) March 2020 ( 3 ) April 2020 ( 2 ) May 2020 ( 1 ) June 2020 ( 2 ) July 2020 ( 1 ) August 2020 ( 2 ) October 2020 ( 1 ) November 2020 ( 1 ) December 2020 ( 2 ) January 2021 ( 1 ) March 2021 ( 1 ) October 2021 ( 1 ) November 2021 ( 1 ) Browse News Categories Select Category --------ALTRA BRANDS Warner Electric --------LITERATURE Application Profile Brochure Catalogs Innovation Spotlight --------Other News Release Tradeshows Website UpComing Tradeshows October 04-07, 2021 NAEC 2021 New Orleans, LA December 01-05, 2021 Robotics Show RS 2021 Shanghai Contact Us Warner Electric 449 Gardner St. South Beloit, IL 61080 - USA Phone: 1-800-825-6544 Email: info@warnerelectric.com Quick Links Third Party Code of Conduct OrderNet Distributor Locator Sales Locator Media Application Profiles Literature NewsRoom Follow Us At facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube 2021 © Altra Industrial Motion Corp. ALL Rights Reserved. Legal, Privacy Policy | SiteMap