MORryde Sees Production Output Improve via Digitization – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
MORryde’s heavily manual assembly of RV components and other vehicle parts is a good example of a smaller manufacturers that needs lower-tech paths to digitalization than what the stereotypical Industry 4.0 solutions offer. (Photo: Pico MES)
ELKHART, Ind. – In the all-hands-on-deck move toward manufacturing digital transformation, the usually touted solutions leave too many small- and medium-sized manufacturers out in the cold, particularly those whose operations can’t justify traditional automation, according to reporting by contributor Jim Vinoski at Forbers.com. Buzz about Industry 4.0 advances like robots and cobots, the often poorly understood catchall of the Industrial Internet of Things, and AI replacement of knowledge work has many smaller industry players just scratching their heads.
That’s because those ultra-high-tech solutions aren’t where the savings are for smaller manufacturers. MORryde, a manufacturer of RV components and other proprietary vehicle parts and accessories based in Elkhart, Indiana, has achieved a production output improvement of 50% and has greatly improved its product quality with Pico MES, a lower-tech solution for digitalization for industrial SMEs.
Pico MES is a factory workflow software package made by an eponymous startup headquartered in San Francisco. The company offers a manufacturing execution system based on the actual jobs factory line workers must accomplish, digitizing assembly processes and tool usage to improve speed of training, factory productivity and product quality. Pico MES closed a $12.35 million Series A funding round backed by Bosch Ventures in August.
“I believe no other software system has been built from the factory fundamentals,” said Pico MES co-founder and CEO Ryan Kuhlenbeck, a veteran of Tesla and General Motors. “We built a product that tackles the basics like labor, with an interactive environment that guides the workers. We want to be the backup system that tells you what to do, just like a YouTube video that tells you how to fix your fridge, then goes away when you don’t need it.”
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