00:00If you want to ask what SPOT's doing for us, it's gathering data that we didn't have before.
00:05And it allows us to build a database filled with records of critical equipment, statistics,
00:10that we can go and eventually use to diagnose or prevent machine failures,
00:15to help keep uptime, and even safety of the people that work around the machines.
00:20My name is Mark Hemling. I'm with ST Engineering.
00:23We're a 1.5 million square feet facility, and we manufacture composite components for aircrafts.
00:29So primarily we make here our thrust reversers or nacelle systems.
00:34Anything you can see from the window of the airplane around the engine.
00:37The only thing most people ever see of the engine is the blades. Everything around it is what we make.
00:42As we continue to grow the business and we bring in new technology to help us both manufacture our products,
00:48but then also maintain our facility, we need to push to not only bring the equipment and technologies
00:53that we use to manufacture components, but also the facility itself to ensure that we can run at peak efficiency.
00:59And maintain the quality and production level required to make our customers happy.
01:05The process we use here are energy intensive.
01:08On a monthly basis, just in electricity, we spend maybe $300,000 worth of power, right?
01:13So one of the things that we do is that we want to make our systems here that utilize that
01:17energy the most efficiently that they possibly can.
01:19You try to do daily machine checks, weekly machine checks, but as your maintenance team gets pulled on hotter tasks,
01:26more urgent matters,
01:27there's times when those routines and daily tasks can be skipped.
01:30And what we found is skipping those when you have the amount of equipment that we have in this factory
01:35just continues to have a pileup effect in some ways.
01:39You could miss something critical in between those times.
01:43We currently have Spot doing inspections throughout the facility for our critical equipment or Category 1.
01:48It's utilizing its SpotCam for thermal inspections, but also the Fluke SV600 for acoustic imaging.
01:54It's looking at things like motors, electrical components, and it's really capturing the current status of our machines and equipment.
02:02It is inspecting things like our autoclaves.
02:05They are dangerous pieces of equipment.
02:07They are pressurized vessels.
02:09But also, if the autoclave run were to fail, it's a large monetary loss for products that sometimes they're not
02:16recoverable.
02:18Being in a facility that is 95 years old, we do have engineer drawings of the facility, but they don't
02:25really capture everything.
02:26There are components and things that may have been left from 60 years ago that are still here and not
02:33captured.
02:33But now, with the added capability of the Leica scanner, we can now create a 3D model of our facility.
02:40It allows us to almost take a snapshot in time and something that you could walk through and see the
02:46changes that we make.
02:47There's been three areas where we're really getting a lot of return for our investment.
02:51Automation in the manufacturing side of it, and then our digital technology, our digital thread through our factory, such that
02:57the factory kind of talks to us.
02:59And SPOT will be part of that, right?
03:01There's also a personal sense of comfort that I know that when I'm not here, when my people aren't here,
03:06the maintenance crew is thin, there's somebody out there looking, keeping an eye on things.
03:10Several times a year, we're making big moves throughout the factory.
03:13Keeping up with that is very hard.
03:15It would probably be a multi-week operation with multiple people.
03:20As soon as they're done, we'd probably need to scan again because we'd change something.
03:24Having the dog walk through the factory and routinely capture the facility will be the backbone of our scans, and
03:32it will provide a lot of insight.
03:34You go and you set these missions up, and then say we want to run it every quarter, every week,
03:39every day.
03:40The ultimate value in the BLK arc is time.
03:43Time is what it saves.
03:46Not only is it going to be great for our business in terms of the inspections and everything, people see
03:52it, and they're just amazed.
03:54Say you brought SPOT to a job fair.
03:56I don't know how to explain it, but SPOT has this ability to just draw people in.
04:00The younger population, it's natural to them.
04:03They've grown up expecting this to be the future of manufacturing.
04:08The way we present it to them is that it is part of our strategy, part of how we're going
04:11to grow our business.
04:12We've been here 95 years.
04:13I'd love to be here for another 95 years.
04:15Those kids are the ones that are going to be here.
04:17The work we're doing now isn't for me.
04:19It's really to put things in place so that 10, 15 years from now, as those children become part of
04:24the workforce, our operators, our engineers, our staff here, for them it's just normal.
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