Manufacturing information and troubleshooting system and method

A method for providing a troubleshooting response for a manufacturing process, said method being suitable for use in connection with a web converting manufacturing process producing a composite product from a sequential addition of component parts during a production run of composite products, wherein the production run is monitored by a information exchange system linked to a communications network, wherein said communications network is linked to a registration system, a quality system, an alarm and an inspection system, wherein said registration system, quality system, alarm system, and inspection system have raw material data, waste data, delay data and machine set point data related to the production run, said method comprising:

• automatically inspecting at a first aspect of a composite product being produced during the production run to determine a component attribute of said first aspect;
• automatically determining a plurality of machine settings of a machine associated with the web converting process at a first time;
• obtaining from the information exchange system via the communications network a relationship between the component attribute of the first aspect and the plurality of machine settings wherein the obtained relationship is a function of the raw material data;
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• identifying a troubleshooting action based on the relationship between the component attribute of the first aspect and the plurality of machine settings obtained from the information exchange.