AUGUST, 20248BESTChronicleIndustryBUSINESS LEADERS OF 2024Simplest Way to Accelerate Digital Factory Transformation42QThe development of 42Q started 25 years ago, and was first placed into production in a few dozen factories in Sanmina and SCI, producing some of the world's most complex telecommunications, industrial and medical equipment. Sanmina deployed the first fully automated `lights out' production lines for the production of high volume medical devices twelve years ago. All electronic travellers had these lines, all electronic test data uploading (through 42Q) and traceability of key data components hyperlinked to electronic travellers. At the same time, the company had the vision for real-time global factory visibility by connecting factory and test equipment to 42Q. This capability became real eight years ago, enabling Sanmina executives to see real-time factory data anywhere in the world from their laptops.The team saw the benefit of 42Q as a cloud solution when 42Q deployments expanded at Sanmina. The team made 42Q a cloud solution six years ago, creating the industry's first, multi-tenant cloud-based MES, enabling Sanmina to dramatically reduce costs, increase production efficiency and, more importantly, increase accessibility while providing the ability to scale up or down securely as required, a challenge that cannot be addressed by traditional on-site MES systems. 42Q is deployed in 15 countries around the world in over 70 factories. Over 100,000 unique top level assemblies were produced using 42Q last year. Fortune 50, Fortune 500 and smaller businesses use 42Q as the base of their digital factories. For highly controlled Rajeev Gollarahalli, chief business officer, 42Q.
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