HARMAN selects Arch to be part of industry 4.0 initiative

“We’re deploying Arch’s technology globally to capture key analytics information to drive SMT production efficiencies, and to start using AI more effectively in our factories,” shared Ehab Beshay Sr. Director AME, Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation at HARMAN International.  “In choosing Arch, speed was critical, both on how quickly they could deploy connectivity to both new and older SMT machines, as well as the speed at which they have and are continuing to adapt the advanced analytics to our production environment.”

HARMAN was seeking a solution to drive digitisation and optimisation across its manufacturing footprint, which spans different components, but is most heavily concentrated on electronics manufacturing.  Arch is a leader in machine data and analytics with specific expertise on front-end electronics processes and surface-mount-technology machines, so there was a natural fit between the companies.

“HARMAN has a smart approach to manufacturing,” said Andrew Scheuermann, Arch CEO. “We’re excited to be working with Ehab and the global team to help enable this fundamental digitisation. Beyond connectivity, rapid progress has been made with our domain-specific data scientists collaborating with HARMAN’s domain-specific regional and global operations experts, a great example of combining human and machine intelligence. This is a cornerstone principle to capture the massive ROI potential in factory digitisation.”

Arch Systems is tasked with supplying real-time access to and analysis of SMT lines’ manufacturing data at all of HARMAN’s facilities. The companies are collaborating to expand capacity, increase efficiency, and further build on HARMAN’s well-known manufacturing quality standard with data and AI as a part of HARMAN’s Industry 4.0 program.