Digital Technologies in the Service of Human Intellect

Embodiment of Conception in ABM Technology, Limited Liability Company

There is no any spheres of modern life wherein the digital technologies would not play their role. In some cases, such influence has a fundamental character. For advanced enterprises, this fact opens up the new opportunities. Integrating into the digital environment, their business becomes more competitive and prospective. The business is flourishing, and the Customer receives high-quality product. Everybody is on the winning side. 

A company of such level is in Ukraine. This is ABM Technology, Limited Liability Company in Dnipro. Thanks to the digital automation, the time expenditure for production cycle of product manufacturing at Bauer’s Implants, Dental Implant Plant is minimal. Thus, the human resource and resource base are released for the innovations and improvement of available business areas. 

According to the Production Director Vadym Vozniak, a large-scale implementation of digital technologies in ABM Technology, Limited Liability Company is not an exception from the rule. At the same time, due to the fact that the Plant is new and meets all modern criteria of high-tech manufacturing, there is something to be proud of: a complex approach to software and completing of automated lines are implemented in every technological chain. The digital technologies “work” starting from machining of the blanks and ending with output of the finished products. 

Japanese CNC machines manufactured by Tsugami PrecisionCo.are among the equipment being used. Different materials are cut and machined with the help of these computer-controlled high-precision devices. The heightened requirements are specified to the sizes and tolerances of products being manufactured. The exact matching is ensured due to the work of an expert programmer.

The help of this specialist is necessary in order to convert data received from the design engineer to executable machine code and transfer them to the machine operator. Only after that, the “intelligent hardware” becomes intelligent in fact: automated equipment precisely performs actions being programmed in it by a man. The Company programmer engineer Danyl Lukianov told about it. 

The machine operators do their work after the programmer. According to the senior operator Oleh Khorishko, a role of these specialists lies in the fact that to place a tool and ensure running of programwithin the parameters established for certain product. 

The compliance of finished product sizes is also checked with the help of digital devices in the Quality Management Department. If the new products are manufactured, all this responsibility is imposed on a process engineer of ABM Technology, Limited Liability Artem Obukh. In order to ensure compliance of small-sized products with the drawings, he checks their sizes with the help of special equipment – comparator - selecting the most suitable ones. When the design stage is passed, and the serial productionis organized, a specialist of relevant department will control quality. 

The surface of finished implants shall be microporous. This promotes the process of osseointegration. With this end in view, it is used acid processing of products having dropped out of the machine. The digital technologies are also necessary at this stage. According to the Production Director Vadym Vozniak, Swiss equipment (manufactured by KKS, Ltd) is computerized. The task of a laboratory worker of ABM Technology, Limited Liability Company is to control the operation of automated equipment for acid processing. It maintains preset temperature and ultrasonic frequency in the chamber within a specified time according to preset program. 

According to assurances of experts, it is coming the new upsurge of the industrial revolution called as Industry 4.0. Then, the role of a man in the manufacturing process will be minimal. However, in ABM Technology, Limited Liability Company it is said that a man is still playing a major role in the manufacturing process regardless of the level of its automation. 

The operation of relevant equipment depends on a preset program and the accuracy of actions of the machine or acid chamber operator. A man’s participation is also required in the intervals between the automated production stages. Consequently, just the high skills of the personnel determine the utility and efficiency of modern digital computers. They will turn into the ordinary “hardware” without human intellect.