Smart Manufacturing
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing
The COVID-19 global pandemic has disrupted many industries & caused enterprises to re-think their global strategy. In Manufacturing, the traditional approaches to engaging Suppliers, Customers, Workforce & driving Productivity have been irreversibly altered.
At the same time, Manufacturers now have access to a wealth of modernization options through technology to unlock digital transformation for their production lines. These technology options include the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing (Edge), Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins Augmented/Mixed Reality which are almost always delivered from the Cloud, increasingly leveraging 5G. Manufacturers are therefore increasingly harnessing the Cloud to deliver competitive advantage through New Product Development, engaging with Suppliers, Customers, Employees and collaborating with partners. These options allow Manufacturers to deliver agility, unlock global innovation and digitize production lines rapidly, at scale and a pace never seen before in the Industry.
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing
The COVID-19 global pandemic has disrupted many industries & caused enterprises to re-think their global strategy. In Manufacturing, the traditional approaches to engaging Suppliers, Customers, Workforce & driving Productivity have been irreversibly altered.
At the same time, Manufacturers now have access to a wealth of modernization options through technology to unlock digital transformation for their production lines. These technology options include the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing (Edge), Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins Augmented/Mixed Reality which are almost always delivered from the Cloud, increasingly leveraging 5G. Manufacturers are therefore increasingly harnessing the Cloud to deliver competitive advantage through New Product Development, engaging with Suppliers, Customers, Employees and collaborating with partners. These options allow Manufacturers to deliver agility, unlock global innovation and digitize production lines rapidly, at scale and a pace never seen before in the Industry.
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Kennametal, an American supplier of tooling and industrial materials with annual revenue of over $2B USD, has moved 90% of its business applications—including SAP—to Azure. As a result, Kennametal has cut IT capital investments by nearly half, expedited disaster recovery scenarios, and increased productivity in its first IoT-enabled factory. IoT-enabled machines serve up a constant stream of data that operators can use to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance.
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Manufacturing processes such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) no longer have to operate in pre-pandemic aged IT (Information Technology) or OT (Operations Technology) silos. For the first time, the Cloud can bring these disparate systems together, allowing them to share data seamlessly, at scale, positively impacting production optimization and accelerating digital transformation. Open Technology standards including OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) have become the foundation for communication and data modeling to deliver Industry 4.0.
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Majans, a consumer goods manufacturer with $30 million USD in annual revenue, adopted a Cloud-based ERP system, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and IoT in its production lines. With these technologies, the company has achieved an end-to-end data thread across its entire supply chain from farm to consumer, breaking down old siloes and bringing all its data together.
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Another key consideration for Manufacturers is upskilling their workforce to be able to take advantage of the Cloud. Enabling the upskilling requires more digital tools for Training, Communication, Collaboration & real-time, on the job training solutions leveraging Augmented/Mixed Reality which are available today for all manufacturers. The ones that harness these capabilities fastest, will be able to out-compete in the market.
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Airbus, an international pioneer in the Aerospace industry with annual revenues of 70 billion euros, is using mixed reality to train employees in an immersive virtual environment without the need for an actual physical aircraft or parts. Airbus also uses mixed reality to overlay instructions or diagrams on real pieces of machinery to aid in complex or hard-to-reach tasks. These kinds of mixed-reality solutions have allowed Airbus to cut manufacturing time by a third while improving quality.
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Similarly, connecting legacy Industrial Assets to new-age Digital ready assets is possible now, with the robustness of Industrial IoT on the Edge also delivered on the Cloud. This can significantly accelerate Industry 4.0 adoption, because it mitigates the equipment life-cycle challenges for Manufacturers, who can further monetize their legacy investments, once they are connected to the Cloud while also deploying new-age Digital Assets.
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Industry reference: To differentiate its offerings, GE Aviation is digitizing its view of the maintenance and performance records of each aircraft it builds using digital twins. When the aircraft are in use by customers, these insights will empower an analytics-based approach to maintenance rather than the current time cycle–based maintenance, reducing unnecessary spend and improving reliability.
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Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing
Optimations understands your business prioritizes delivering fierce customer loyalty, taking out non-core legacy costs while increasing core digital productivity and empowering your human capital to realize its true potential. To achieve that & enable your competitive success…
Optimations unlocks global innovation bringing the following on-demand resources:
- Leading Industry & Domain Digital Transformation SMEs & Analysts.
- Digital Customer Experiences & Case Studiesin the respective domain/industry.
- Technology Guidance in IoT, Edge, Edge/AI, 5G, Machine Learning, RPA & Artificial Intelligence.
- Sprint Strategies to accelerate Time to Market (TTM) & Value (TTV)
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing
Optimations understands your business prioritizes delivering fierce customer loyalty, taking out non-core legacy costs while increasing core digital productivity and empowering your human capital to realize its true potential. To achieve that & enable your competitive success…
Optimations unlocks global innovation bringing the following on-demand resources:
- Leading Industry & Domain Digital Transformation SMEs & Analysts.
- Digital Customer Experiences & Case Studiesin the respective domain/industry.
- Technology Guidance in IoT, Edge, Edge/AI, 5G, Machine Learning, RPA & Artificial Intelligence.
- Sprint Strategies to accelerate Time to Market (TTM) & Value (TTV)