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Watch Now: Episode 4 of the Micro Webinar Series: ‘Smarter Manufacturing Enabled with Inspection Data’
March 29, 2023 | I-Connect007Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
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Episode 4, “Envisioning the Factory of the Future” from Koh Young’s new micro webinar series ‘Smarter Manufacturing Enabled with Inspection Data’ is available now.
In this episode of the engaging, 12-part micro webinar series, Koh Young topic expert Ivan Aduna shares how intelligent software solutions can help manufacturers analyze and optimize the production process by managing process data from connected SPI and AOI systems to speed the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Viewers can watch “Envisioning the Factory of the Future” in under 5 minutes.
Designed to complement Koh Young’s I-007eBook, The Printed Circuit Assembler’s Guide to...SMT Inspection, Today, Tomorrow and Beyond, this entire 12-part webinar series can be viewed in under an hour. In this series, viewers will learn about secure data collection, AI-powered solutions to manage and analyze data, and how to leverage the IPC CFX-QPL to succeed in the transformation to Industry 4.0.
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