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Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 3: Additional Quality Control Tools

November 4, 2025November 4, 2025 by Christoph Roser

In my last two posts, I talked a lot about the free Analysis Platform application, used by Denso and others to dig deeper into big data to understand what exaltiert is happening on your shop floor. I showed you the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7). But beyond these seven tools, there are a few more included in the application, which I also would like to show you briefly here.

And, on top of that, I will also briefly show you Seven New Quality Control Tools that are not really part of the application, but aim to dig deeper into problems that are hard to quantify, and many of these tools are more based on relations than on data.

Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 2: The Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools

October 31, 2025October 28, 2025 by Christoph Roser

In my last post, I started to talk about the free Analysis Platform application used by Denso and others (especially in Japan) to tackle big data. In this post I will go into much more detail on what Denso calls the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7). These data analysis tools go way beyond the usual things you can do in Excel, and are designed to tackle big data analysis for industry 4.0. Beyond that, this application also includes more tools, which I will also show briefly in my next post.

Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 1: The Analysis Platform Application

October 31, 2025October 21, 2025 by Christoph Roser

A lot of problem solving is about understanding the current situation. Ideally this includes data. There are a couple of ways to analyze data. Denso uses seven traditional ways of analyzing data, which you are all familiar with. However, they expanded these tools with the goal to analyze big data. They call it the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7) …and of course I will share this with you. Even better, there is a freely available tool “Analysis Platform” that does these analyses for you (albeit it is not that easy to use).

KUKA FAMULUS Turns 50—The First Modern Industrial Robot

August 21, 2025May 16, 2023 by Christoph Roser

Fifty years ago, the FAMULUS industrial robot was introduced by the German machine tool maker KUKA. This articulate-arm kinematics industrial robot with six axes was the first of many modern industrial robots. This design is nowadays still the most common type of industrial robot.

The Impact of ChatGPT on the Future of Work

November 12, 2025February 7, 2023 by Christoph Roser

You may have heard of ChatGPT, the latest buzz in artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is a chatbot by OpenAI that can answer your questions and hold a conversation. And, it is very good at this. It can handle almost anything connected with text. This tool (and the many others that are likely to follow) has the ability to fundamentally change how we work. Let me show you.

What’s Buzzing?—Vibration Sensors in Industry

August 21, 2025January 24, 2023 by Christoph Roser

During our Van of Nerds tour in France in 2022, we came across a few vibration sensors. In manufacturing, vibration sensors are frequently used to measure machine- or tool-related data. Some of these sensors were variations of what I have seen before, but the one for measuring machine performance was stunningly good and something I have not seen before. Hence, in this blog post I would like to share my findings on vibration sensors in industry.

The Van of Nerds in France—Trains and Cars

August 21, 2025December 27, 2022 by Christoph Roser

In this post I would like to talk about two other plants that we visited as part of the Van of Nerds in France. One is a railway repair and maintenance plant by SNCF, and the other is a body shop and final assembly by the well-known French car maker Renault. Both offered interesting insights. I am personally quite familiar with automotive assembly. The railroad repair facility, however, was something quite new to me. Let me show you.

The Van of Nerds in France—Internal Logistics in Well Exploration and Military Products

August 21, 2025December 20, 2022 by Christoph Roser

This post looks at two plants we visited during our Van of Nerds tour in France in 2022. Both plants are in areas in which I have little experience. The first one was SLB, specializing in sensors for oil field exploration. The second one was the Thales Group, where we visited the location manufacturing military sensors. In both locations we had a deeper look at internal logistics. This is (from the point of view of car manufacturing) a low-volume but definitely not a low-cost business. Let’s have a look.