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INDUSTRY 4.0/IIoT
GETTING MORE OUT OF MOM
Mike Bradford, Strategic Business Development Director at DELMIA, shows how businesses can get the most out of IIOT and connected applications in MOM, and how they provide a real return on investment
moment, and there’s good reason for it. There is real power in IIOT and MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management), but business leaders must understand how to get the most out of these two capabilities working together to propel their business to the next level. Manufacturing bosses are tasked with
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squeezing every ounce of performance out of their overall operation on a yearly basis. With outside factors such as supply chain issues and the recovery from Covid playing a pivotal role in the performance of manufacturers around the globe, it’s essential that connected applications and IIOT are maximised to mitigate external issues. The key to maximising the value that your
business can get out of connected technology is being able to contextualise the information you have gathered, and then form it into an actionable plan. This is where the MOM side of the equation becomes powerful. Take for example the 3DEXPERIENCE from
DELMIA, as a MOM solution, it is capable of communicating with all manner of devices, using all sorts of different communication protocols. It also contains the logic to say, when this happens, you want to take this action. A “What-if” scenario. This type of solution gives business owners actionable advice they can act upon to improve their entire operation and overall efficiency. Let’s say something as simple as SPC
(Statistical Process Control). One of the rules of SPC is, if you see a result trending in the same direction for four different measures in a row, this indicates a problem is going to occur. At that point, it’s important to monitor the SPC information and alert your team to
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here’s no getting away from it, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) is a topic everyone is talking about at the
potentially stop whatever process it is collecting, as changes will be required. With any sort of IIOT information, whether it's the temperature on a furnace or the number of cycles on a machine, it is essential to not only identify any issues, but also be in a position to take action and automate solutions where possible. Anytime there's human intervention required, you'll slow down the process of automation. And whilst there will invariably be a point where a human will need to intervene, you want to do as much automatically as possible, as this enables your business to work in the leanest way possible. IIOT & connected technology are not just
limited to the manufacturing industry, as they can generally be used in any industry that utilises machines on a larger scale. In an industry that's highly automated with a lot of machines and equipment and robotics devices, IIOT & connected technology are going to be more useful there than in a manual assembly line. There aren't that many applications that are
fully manual anymore anyway, almost every type of manufacturing has some level of automation. Moreover, any level of automation at all can become valuable when connected to the right types of technology, that can help to better inform your business decisions. It’s no secret that business owners are
always keen on ensuring that they can attribute an ROI to anything they invest in, and that’s no different with IIOT & connected technology in MOM. In years gone by, everybody talked about
predictive maintenance using IIOT to collect data about equipment and then predict when there was going to be a failure before it happened, and so, then you avoid it. You would increase key measures or activity and efficiency and you decrease downtime. Those
all have value but, that's not the only applicable area anymore. Back to our SPC example, you can improve
your quality statistics. Using IIOT devices to automatically measure, alongside a solution to evaluate and react when things appear to be going out of control or going out into quality specification, is a great way to ensure you're reducing your total cost of production downtime. Regarding quality, you're improving your quality measures, such as Right First Time. The key to IIOT is that a lot of the processing
can take place at the device or near the device. People talk about cloud applications, such as MOM and MES. But the issue with cloud applications is the latency between the actual application and the devices. A couple of years ago many within the
industry discussed what they call, a “fog layer.” A fog layer is a layer of intelligence and architecture that still sits at the plant. It eliminates that latency issue between your IIOT devices and your cloud application. You can have a fog layer that takes care of the near term, which essentially means it’s more urgent. You need quick response calculations, playing out calculation’s execution and so forth. And then you can pass pertinent data up to the cloud for processing or to a data lake for analytics. This is another place where MOM can be valuable, because in our MOM solution we provide this capability. The MOM software from DELMIA can provide that fog layer, so rather than having the full MOM application on-premise, you can have the fog layer as a component of our MOM application on- premise, while the main server can be on the Cloud or at a Data Centre. You have then taken advantage of IIOT and fog and Cloud.
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