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In some cases, FORD production engineer has to contact machine builder to get the recommendations on improving the machining process, while sending the process data to the equipment manufacturer. On the EXTE side the data undergo further analysis to provide recommendation on production process improvement. The recommended actions are manually introduced into the ZDMP platform. Afterward, the platform can assess the effectiveness of provided recommendations and improve its knowledge base.

The operator is involved in the working area scanning process. Afterwards the scanning results can be automatically sent to the ZDMP platform to be further processed and converted into the .stl format.

After the inspection process finished, a report is produced and if the product or material corresponds to the specifications the production process continues, but if some deviations are detected, report is sent to the operator for detailed check.

The assembly process is mostly automated. However, some manufacturing stages, as well as some quality operations are performed manually. In this regard, the production process can be improved when quality and performance details can be delivered in time and to the right person.

In the case of the negative automatic test, operator performs the manual check of the product comparing it with the reference images. The operator decisions with corresponding images are collected and stored to learn or extract the defects types and acceptance limits.

One of the goals of the use-case is to minimize the human involvement in the quality assessment process. However, it is not always feasible, as for instance to detect natural defects of material (stone), but still operator can get significant assistance from ZDMP platform and corresponding services to automatically detect some defects.

Each user will have different levels of interaction with the ZDMP platform. Both contractor and supervisor should have access to the construction schedule, but their own task schedules should only be accessible to each of them. Similarly, the Supplier will not have access to the Supervisor or Works Contractor’s areas and vice-versa.

Through utilization of ZDMP platform, the operator will get a notification, if a defect is detected. This releases the quality operator from their cursory monitoring task, and it is moved into a reactive role. Before, the operator was in charge for manual detection of possible defects. In its turn, ZDMP platform has the goal to reduce the load on operator and make the production process and quality control more self-reliant.