Smart Factory : The Future

In recent research undertaken by MAVERICK Technologies, A Rockwell Automation Company *, the smart factory fails due to a lack of clear goals and objectives, no real justification or real business benefits. Add to this vendors and consultants selling you what they have and not what you need, which is a recipe for disaster.?The key is to deliver a cognitive system solution.?

Today most Global Systems integrators are using analysts to sort #sensor output data into databases manually, or large companies like 西门子 are spending literally #billions on creating adapters to manage the complex path from sensor to the #database, adding to it security and root #trust overhead, and eventually you end up with a #security breach when customers start the operational phase, something gets lost in the process, and #cybercriminals have presented an opportunity.?Take the latest examples of social engineering on credentials or the lack of certificate rotation.?It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that we are moving from a legacy headache to a new world headache, albeit more complex and more at stake with automation.

How to fix this: Firstly, we need more than off-the-shelf components; an engineering challenge requires an engineering design, a platform with enough personality to adapt and assist with the moving changes of old legacy sensors and new intelligent sensors and reducing the amount of admin overhead whilst minimising the amount of BareMetal needed.

The Platform and the Client:

According to a recent study with 德勤 , Connectivity is the most #critical part of any smart factory in simplifying the gravity of data, just in time use; #legacy systems are closed off, i.e. #Scada, #plc and very rarely can they be reversed #engineered to update coding, so a practical approach on encapsulating and the #automation of classifying data is critical to ensuring simplification of data and the exit of data into the necessary databases to be analysed, pivoted and make usable.?

Solution: Our platform assists with exiting data regardless of its source and empowers inter-departmental productivity, including the human-machine interface

Optimise: The smart factory cannot be constrained with tech that is not agile and is constructed linearly.?This applies to the exchange of information, both logical and physical.?The manual handling of sensor data due to legacy constraints could be more optimal, leading to misinformation, costly budgets, and unnecessary capital expenditure.

Solution: Our platform and client encapsulate, classifies and streams the data with reduced dependencies on hardware, reducing manual data sorting whilst supporting legacy systems.

Transparency: Smart factory success depends on the accuracy and availability of data.?This upscaled design concept of a transparent network requires the physical design to contain no single point of failure present not just in the physical but in the logical interpretation and dissemination of data which will impact visual data sets that will be critical to the decision-making process and efficient operations.

Solution: Our platform rationalises and processes datasets into just-in-time, simple and manageable streams to be visualised, understood and actioned into meaningful data, driving value from the much more simplified connectivity supporting real-time visualisation with point-to-point data exiting and processing.

Proactive: The logistics require proactive support of the supply chain to enable the operational process to run efficiently, keeping the production line running.?Another aspect of logistics requires the support for the physical components of the infrastructure to be supported, i.e., to be maintained, avoiding unforeseen downtime. The third arm of logistics blurs between the correct level of physical hardware data versus security to ensure end-of-life/security aspects are not compromised.

Solution: Our platform monitors changes to the hardware, software and system environments supporting IT security and the logistic chain, driving more value from the available data.

Agile: The deployed technology must allow the owner to minimise the impact of adopting new processes as the company expands or extends its production into newer product lines and geographical areas. Any tech not agile enough to meet these criteria is not enabling innovative processes required to support productivity and competitiveness.

Solution: The Application Programming Interface empowers the owner to rapidly reconfigure, monitor and adapt enhancements to meet the minimising vendor lock-in and the impact on operations and growth

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