Hackathons to Accelerate the Development of Low-Cost Digital Solutions

Towards a comparison of low-cost technologies for monitoring the consumption of power

“…Having solution demonstrators or pilots ready is important since they can be integrated into real manufacturing production environments while enabling early industrial assessment. Examples of demonstrators achieved with the DMS approach are the low-cost monitoring system reported in [34], the human robot monitoring system and the low-cost part tracking demonstrator reported in [35], the voice commanded digital drawing navigation or the voice commanded turntable reported in [36] as well as others detailed in [37]. Examples of industrial pilots deployed in companies are a dental manufacturer who wanted to start digitalising with a process temperature monitoring solution to improve wax production process, and help build staff confidence on digitalisation (see more at [38]), a bespoke shoemaking company who needed a job location tracking solution to track the production of each pair of orthotic footwear on the shop floor (see more at [39]) as well as the timber manufacturer who wanted a job location tracking solution to have visibility of the production status of doors across the shop floor at any one time (see more at [40]).…”

Designing Shoestring Solutions: An Approach for Designing Low-Cost Digital Solutions for Manufacturing

“…A further complication is that the people conducting these projects usually have other roles and responsibilities so developing a low-cost digital solution is seldom their priority. A possible way of alleviating these issues is by leveraging interns, student projects and/or apprentices (an example of how the authors have used this strategy for the development of proof-of-concept systems can be found in [16]).…”