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Ryan Lanham, IT manager at Dynomax, says: “FORCAM’s Industrial IoT solution has allowed our shop floor to understand that they are important to the production process as well as the outcome of the entirety of our business. Transform your shop floor in six steps” (see below table).
“The Impact of FORCAM’s IIoT technology is measured with the vision to uncover even greater results for our business.”
Dynamic shop floor management
Today’s modern manufacturers are efficient. As the demands on manufacturing change to single-loT orders and new business models emerge, more efficiencies are required to meet customer expectations.
For a value-added manufacturer of complex multi-stage products, the Industrial IoT’s primary areas of business benefit are: increased connectivity, interoperability, and better data analytics. From design office to the machine operator, data analytics bring the entire manufacturing facility up-to-speed swiftly. Data reaches workers with the speed they need to make the right decisions quickly. It begins with data, delivered to those who have the skill to make informed choices to turn data into action and improved bottom-line results.
Ready-configured solutions
FORCAM delivers IIoT for manufacturing by providing a unified template approach for sustainable manufacturing excellence across all operations on a single platform. The ready-configured IIoT solution, FORCAM FORCE™, with MES applications built in, is designed for rapid implementation and fast delivery of business benefit.
Shop floor connectivity and Interoperability
The heart of the engine, FORCAM FORCE™ Bridge, is so flexible that it collects data from machines of different manufacturers – and makes it available to third-party systems via OpenAPI, enabling easy scaling of the application.
Any ERP, PLM, CAQ, Tool Management, Predictive Maintenance or Artificial Intelligence (AI) now become an integral part of the holistic IIoT solution.
Transforming business and manufacturing performance
Advanced shop floor management supported by FORCAM’s award-winning Industry 4.0 technology has been proven to increase productivity significantly. Offering transparency in capacity planning in a demand-driven supply chain, CFOs confirm swift return-on-investment (ROI) with FORCAM in less than 12 months.
Comparing data in real time
Big data becomes smart data: the FORCAM FORCE™ Bridge prepares machine data user-friendly reports and displays succinct information and metrics in dashboards and online visualisations. Benchmark current data with historic data from your regional plant to apply digital manufacturing. Advanced process optimisation turns these analytics into cost reduction and quality improvement.
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SMART FACTORY EXPO
November 13-14, 2019, Liverpool, UK
Exhibition Centre Liverpool
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