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Industry 4.0
Create a smart, connected facility with reduced downtime and increased productivity. Pull data from devices and integrate with your systems. Utilize dashboards to make informed decisions and accelerate your business.
PLC, HMI, and SCADA
We support your automation projects with a variety of capabilities.
- Material Handling / Packaging
- Custom Programming
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrades
- System Integration
- Equipment Integration
Web Applications
Control your operations, process your data, and visualize performance with our custom dashboards. Optimize your processes in real time.
API Integration
Connect data streams to contextualize your data and harness valuable insights. We can integrate your systems with existing client APIs or create an API for your customers to utilize.
Data Analytics
You're collecting all the data you thought you'd need but not seeing results. Now what? Raw data is rarely useful on its own. We organize, process, and share your data in a way that generates insight and leads to action.
Industry 4.0
What is Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0, simply put, is the concept of connecting data from a variety of sources and utilizing that data to create smarter operations. The data comes from any condition, material, equipment, or process that might be useful. Industry 4.0 also encapsulates the booming concepts of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. We like to break it down into Inform, Optimize, and Automate.
Why Industry 4.0
As the saying goes, "What get measured gets managed." Simply being aware of KPIs such as OEE leads to improvements in the metric. Beyond that, Industry 4.0 is quite literally the advancement of automation and intelligence in your facility. The whole point of Industry 4.0 is to improve efficiency, margins, profit, productivity, and quality through sustainable and ever-evolving solutions. Typical improvements per a McKinsey & Company case study are 15-30% labor productivity increases, 30-50% machine downtime reduction, and 10-30% throughput increase, among others.
How to Get Started with Industry 4.0
Implementing Industry 4.0 can be difficult, but we handle that complexity for you. Begin with data collection. Gather useful data on any operation or process. Then identify how you can improve and implement solutions to enhance your bottom line. Finally, automate the process. Make adjustments on the fly and learn in near real-time what the best action plan is for your facility.
Inform
Inform is all about getting data. Collect data from equipment, systems, processes, and external sources relevant to your operation. Utilize APIs or industrial protocols like MQTT, Ethernet/IP, Modbus, or BLE. Add middleware that can integrate data sources.
Optimize
Put data to work. Identify bottlenecks or areas which would benefit from enhanced visibility. Create models for predictive maintenance or defect analysis that rapidly improves all-around performance of your operations.
Automate
Implement models that learn and adapt to the production environment in near real-time. Take action automatically and don't wait for instructions down the chain of command. Eliminate manual processes that are error prone or subject to dangerous operating conditions.