Discrete Manufacturing with ThingWorx IoT Platform

ThingWorx IoT Platform is a platform for the quick evolution and categorization of smart, connected devices. It is the set of unified IoT development tools that support connectivity, production, analysis and other aspects of IoT development.

ThingWorx Analytics is a technology that automates facilitated and predictive analytics. ThingWorx role-based applications put you on the rapid pathway to add value in your manufacturing, digital engineering and service transformations.

The technology utilizes exclusive artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to automatically learn from data, find patterns, construct formalized predictive models and send data virtually to any type of application or technology.

ThingWorx platform offers features like:

  • Easy connectivity of devices to the platform
  • A quick development platform
  • Machine learning joined in order to automatize complex big data analytics tasks.
  • Use cloud, embedded or on-premise IoT solutions.

IoT Use Cases to Optimize Your Manufacturing Implementation

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1. Digital Work Instructions

Give workers the cutting edge tools that they require to improve efficiency, quality, security and deftness while lowering costs.

2. Real Time Visibility

Decrease downtime, while increasing safety by unsealing real time insights into organization wide performance.

3. Plant Benchmarking

Timely data is an important component of any plant benchmarking strategy. Explore how to get the exact data, to the right person, at the right time and build a robust foundation for exact decisions and proven best practice.

The relation between products, services and customers is modifying—moved forward by dynamic markets, transforming customer assumptions and technology such as the Internet of Things. Over the next five years, International Data Corporation assumes more than 30 billion “things” to be connected and manufacturers will be responsible for generating them.

Why ThingsWorx?

Because distributed computing is analytical, ThingWorx supplies modeling tools for creating digital things. Also, developer can quickly create customized user apps. ThingWorx offers a powerful manage over data while nothing is determined in the technology space.

How Discrete Manufacturers Can Attain Digital Transformation with IIOT Solution:

The growth of industrial technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the world of discrete manufacturing. Even leaders with decade’s worth of experience must evaluate ways to stay in an increasingly competitive market.

For discrete manufacturers, smart connected products provide a way to increase product functionality and generate additional value for customers. However, installing and maintaining the infrastructure required to help them internally needs a remarkable amount of time, resources and cost.

Pre-built IoT solutions give faster time to value, as well as a more comprehensive approach to digital transformation that integrates IoT connectivity with generous contextualization and business systems coherence.

So what discrete manufacturers should be thinking about when constructing a digital transformation strategy around IIoT solutions?

Increasing their product’s value

First, look at your products and the value that need to show customers. How can that value be enhanced by digitization? IoT connectivity can improve equipment functionality with solid new abilities. Could your products benefit by optimizing their performance and productivity?

Would monitoring of their utilization data give better accuracy for predictive maintenance? By interpreting the value that smart, connected products will bring to your customers, you will have a clear vision of the impact that digital transformation will have on your business.

Setting a secure foundation

IoT foundation is complex. Connecting and analyzing data from millions of devices and contextualizing it with other digital content requires a strong foundation. IoT software that can quickly ingest data and provide real-time perceptions at scale is not sufficient. You need a specific solution that can also develop powerful Industrial IoT applications on the cloud, allowing centralized data sharing and bi-directional communication between devices.

Security and scalability should be verticals of your industrial IoT foundation, so solutions that combine with an established cloud have a distinct advantages.

Finding the right partners

Lastly, it is important to find trusted and efficient partners and leverage their proven capabilities. Industrial innovation needs strong partnerships with integrated solutions that work simultaneously.

Joint solutions that utilize compatible strategies to bridge OT with IT that can give faster time to value and a broader range of use cases that results a more comprehensive approach to digital transformation.

With the right partner ecosystem, discrete manufacturers can increase the value of their products with IoT connectivity and create a strong base to construct the system for the future.

Today’s manufacturers face supreme challenges. From shortages of skilled workers, to inefficiencies and waste—companies are competing to resolve problems ahead of their competitors.

Accelerate digital transformation with pre-built IIoT apps

Manufacturers are under continuous pressure to improve uptime, increase quality and assure security and compliance – all while lowering costs.

The ThingWorx IoT Platform Manufacturing Apps and building blocks assist you to increase operational efficiency and workforce productivity across the shop floor by providing workers with role-based apps that way over IT and OT, allowing your teams to see, interprets and react on industrial data in real-time.

These apps and building blocks are constructing on the ThingWorx Industrial IoT platform to speed up time to value

Controls Advisor

Controls Advisor

Construct for the controls engineer, this App gives seamless connectivity to PLCs and assets through Open Platform Communications. Servers allowing users to analyze and regulate machine connectivity in real.

Asset Advisor

Asset Advisor

Generated for the maintenance engineer, this app gives real-time visibility of asset status and health, allowing users to analyze and recognize anomalies before product is affected.

Operator advisor

Operator Advisor

Produced for the operators on the shop floor, this app gives them a single interface for work order, work instruction, machine and smart tool data-increasing productivity and quality while accelerating keyboarding.

ThingWorx Manufacturing Apps and building blocks accelerate your time-to-value and give unique flexibility.

Role-based intelligence 

Real-time, practical access to operational data leads to dynamic and quicker decision making

Multipurpose solutions 

Building blocks that speed up app development for wide use cases across your manufacturing

Flexible to develop 

Code-less app adjustability for rapid constant innovation

The IoT Solutions that built on the ThingWorx Industrial IoT Platform delivers native industrial connectivity, quick application development and ideal flexibility leveraged by a vital ecosystem.

ThingWorx Manufacturing Solutions Suite is composed of the following solutions:

Enterprise Operational Intelligence

Operate a focused strategy to minimize costs and enhance plasticity, by utilizing real-time visibility and standardized KPIs. Initiate performance consistency and advantages across your complete operation.

Digital Workforce Productivity

Address skills shortages, labor costs and increasing product complexity. With Workforce Productivity Solutions you can assure your workers will be correctly trained, be more productive, work more securely and change with agility to real-time conditions—making a considerable influence on your labor costs and overall operational productivity.

Intelligent Asset Optimization

 Proactively cut downtime while expanding asset utilization. Minimize your maintenance and equipment costs. With Intelligent Asset Optimization solutions, you can break down data safe star to obtain new insights. Power digital work instructions with IoT data helps to minimize your mean time to restore.

Scalable Production Management

Prepare your operations with the precision of industrial IoT, augmented reality and analytics technology to assure machine uptime and high-quality and high-volume throughput. Scalable Production Management is essential to driving OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and product quality developments.

Built on ThingWorx IoT Platform, the industry’s leading IoT platform, making it easy to develop and add functionality and features to complement your business’s isolated requirements.