Intro to Industrial IoT/Data-Driven Manufacturing
Data-Driven Manufacturing/Industrial IoT is making decisions on manufacturing based on facts, not guesses and opinions. This creates the capability to make decisions based on the combination of three concepts.
What is Data Driven Culture?
A Data Driven culture is a company that provides one version of the truth of its data with everyone, the people are trained and empowered to find problems in the company, analyze the related data, make decisions, and most importantly take valuable action to solve the challenges. Companies with a Data Driven culture typically beat out companies that don’t in their markets.
Having a Data Driven Culture requires two things:
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- A positive, progressive, problem-solving culture within the people: This culture starts with leadership driving the company forward, being open minded about how to improve, and empowering people to take valuable actions.
- A positive culture around data: The people also need to understand data at a basic level have access to true, accurate, single-version-of-the-truth data, empowered to use it, and interested in using the data for the betterment of the company.
What is IoT?
IoT is where the data comes from…that single version of the truth discussed above.
So, what is IoT (Internet of Things)? In it’s purest form IoT is:
Pulling data from sensors, pushing the data over a backhaul, transforming that data into valuable information, and using the information to enable powerful business outcomes.
To be clearly, IoT is the source of data, or better yet, information. That information becomes the basis on which decisions are made and valuable action is taken.
IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) is an idea that obviously originates from IoT. It is the application of IoT in manufacturing and heavy industry.
Helping Manufacturers Do More
There are inefficiencies in operations. Labor is more expensive and harder to find. You don’t have solid data to understand what’s going on at the plant floor.
We can help you get real-time visibility into the factory floor.
Real World Solutions
Link to: SensrTrx Manufacturing Analytics Platform
The value of floor visibility
Manufacturers often ask if implementing an Industrial IoT / Data Driven Manufacturing solution is worthwhile. Yes. Read some typical numbers we see in our work and across manufacturing in general as a result of Industrial IoT / Data Driven Manufacturing solutions.
Link to: Why Data Driven Manufacturing gives You the Competitive Edge
Data Driven Manufacturing Journey
Are you working to create new and update existing business processes and company culture to meet the demands of your changing business and market? Read about the high level “best practice” journey when implementing Data Driven Manufacturing. It ensures the right solutions are solving the right challenges with the optimal results.
Link to: Software Solutions
Our Process – Digital Operations 360
See how Ectobox’s unique Digital Operations 360 review process ensures the right solution is put into place providing you with the best solution provider and processes for implementing the solution in the short term and the long support and extension of the solution.
Industrial IoT Platforms
SensrTrx is a Data-Driven Manufacturing / Industrial IoT platform that takes all the data on the plant floor and makes it immediately understandable and accessible. You know exactly how the floor is running, in real-time.
ThingWorx is an Industrial IoT platform with exceptional flexibility. Given how the system is built and works it is an exceptional value for the enterprise organization. It has incredible levels of flexibility and was built for manufacturing.
Compare Industrial IoT to Other Solutions
Solutions like Industrial IoT / Data Driven Manufacturing have a unique place in companies and provide a lot of value. That value comes from our solutions’ unique ability to pull data from machines on the plant floor, innately understand that data, add other contextual data to it, and make the data understandable and valuable to all users. These tools are unique to and work with manufacturing processes and machines on the plant floor. We see some manufacturers trying to use other products and they end up missing a lot of the benefits otherwise available.
ERP
ERP systems are great for planning for the future by evaluating what happened in the past. ERP systems don’t provide real-time analytics on manufacturing processes and machines on which you can take immediate action. Using an ERP system for manufacturing analytics would be like driving by looking at your rearview mirror. Don’t get us wrong, ERP systems are valuable. Though, their place isn’t in providing that immediate, actionable data on what’s going on now on the factory floor.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Many BI systems provide insights into processes and are very general products used at the enterprise level. However, these products falter because they aren’t built to work with machine data and manufacturing processes. To adjust them to work in that way requires a very significant investment in additional time, people, and money to get the solutions to work optimally.
SCADA
SCADA systems primary focus is controlling the manufacturing process and what shouldn’t happen in that process. They aren’t able to provide explanations of what’s right and wrong. Additionally, many of the SCADA systems are built on older technology and struggle to make data available to the wide audience that requires the valuable manufacturing analytics data. Manufacturing analytics provides visibility.
