Fourteen months after a cobot cell started shipping, a mid-sized integrator discovered its torque records lived in a plant manager’s email folder.
The customer audit was in nine days. That’s the moment quality stops being paperwork and starts being the reason revenue gets held hostage.
You can’t spot-weld discipline into a hundred weldments spread across three shifts using spreadsheets and hope. If your operation is scaling past a handful of robot cells, the fix isn’t hiring another quality engineer. It’s putting the records somewhere a machine, a supplier, and an auditor can all agree on. [Read more…] about How Quality Management Software Keeps Robot Production Lines From Falling Apart