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F R E E T R I A L | S E P T E M B E R 2017
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Results 3 Giving it away: Industrial IoT
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Cloud Computing
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57 Reasons Why to Try
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RE S ULTS
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G IVI N G I T AWAY: INDUSTRIAL INDUST RIA IN TLE IO RNTE T O F T HIN GS FO R AL L
Industrial IoT brings Machine Data Collection,
chine information can give plant managers and line
Reporting and Visualization to All Leaders of the
workers a true picture of how their machines will
Smart Factories
operate based on the example of a single machine
The age of the Smart Factory will change manufac-
connection.
turing and deliver great value for plant operations
Manufacturers already understand the value of
teams worldwide. It’s a great theory, but it’s not
the Smart Factory in better understanding their
exactly possible to test-drive a Smart Factory sys-
operational challenges and successes. “The level
tem to see how it will perform in any given manu-
of complexity in our production is high: We process
facturing plant.
36,000 production orders with 17,000 tools on 60
Actually, it is possible. A Free Trial based on key features of FORCAM’s unique Smart Factory Starter Kit allows plants to monitor one machine with MTConnect® capabilities for one (1) month to capture your machine data, in order to create friendly reports and visualizations on the Cloud. The Free Trial launched this summer, offering the technology to manufacturers looking to bring the age of the Smart Factory into their own plants.
different machines per year,” said Paul Nuijten, production logistics manager for BÜHLER AG, an early adopter of FORCAM’s Advanced Shop Floor Management technology suite. “Thanks to digitization, we are a lot more flexible in processing orders; even priority orders are possible any time. Operators define the most efficient production sequence, so everyone is working on the correct orders. Our productivity levels are very high.” The Free Trial is built to accommodate any MTConnect-enabled machine. MT Connect® is a license-free
“Optimizing the utilization of your key manufacturing
Open Source Platform used to collect data from ma-
assets is the first step towards a smarter and more
chine tools. The platform works seamlessly with the
productive factory,”
FORCAM FORCE™ product suite to deliver real-time
said Mohamed Abuali, Managing Director Americas for FORCAM. “Increasing the use of your machine tools can immediately affect your bottom line and free up unused production capacities. We collect, process and analyze data in real-time and provide userfriendly reports and visualizations for all users—from operators to planners.” FORCAM’s Free Trial is a full-functioning machine
data collection and integration with Internet-based solutions for performance analysis. Even legacy machine tools without PLCs or communication processors can be connected using I/O Ethernet converters that are compatible with MTConnect®. These converters can be purchased through FORCAM’s partner Wago to enable innovative manufacturers to try the solution for one month free of charge and hassle.
data collection and analytics package that allows manufacturers of any size to see how better ma-
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C LO U D C O MPU T I NG
The use of cloud computing is an important tool
are available at all work stations. The scalability of
that allows manufacturers to collect and distribute
the cloud allows for a fast and efficient roll out of
machine data performance and other operational
the solution to further machine tools or expanded
information within plants, or between plants located
modules in the full FORCAM FORCE™ product suite.
at any place in the world to create a true transparent factory. It also helps reduce hardware and in-
The ability to analyze plant quickly and accurately
frastructure costs when deploying an IT solution.
provides greater knowledge, and that leads to better
To ensure Free Trial users have the best connectivity in the cloud, FORCAM has partnered with Microsoft’s Azure cloud solution. The Free Trial, the SMART FACTORY Starter Kit and FORCAM’s Use Cases are hosted in Azure to ensure that FORCAM solutions, including FORCAM FORCE™ entire product suite including of Traceability, Dynamic Scheduling, Engery Management, Document Control solutions,
decisions every day. “Every morning we can check the machines which are running without a hitch,” said Heinz Adams, plant manager for MANN+HUMMEL in Germany, another user of FORCAM’s Advanced Shop Floor Management technology suite. “We can analyze stoppages in peace, and identify the weaker machines that cause hold-ups. We can directly target downtime and solve the issues.”
FORCAM's Cloud-Partner: Microsoft Microsoft's cloud platform, Azure, offers the ideal solution with which globally focused organizations can conduct cross-plant evaluations on one platform. Microsoft is FORCAM’s preferred partner for data storage. This combination of software strength and cloud availability ensures that all business processes are optimized. The solution FORCAM FORCE™ works with the Microsoft's Analytics and IoT platform and can be perfectly complemented by Microsoft 's Machine Learning, Data Lake or Data Factory capabilities. FORCAM trusts Microsoft Azure across all departments for our internal processes.
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CLO UD COMPUTING
C LO U D BE N E F I TS
Benefits of the Cloud: Cheaper, Safer Better Industrie 4.0 requires a highly available and scalable cloud solution because digitally captured real-time machine and business data create huge data volumes. This is Big Data. These data volumes can only be processed and efficiently distributed with an advanced cloud solution. Take advantage of the other uses of the cloud: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
“On-Demand” Availability Minimal Infrastructure Costs Resource – Pooling High Flexibility Large Scalability Minimal Administrative Effort
7. High Data Security 8. Complete Cost-Transparency
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The biggest surprise: The “real numbers” on shop productivity and machine utilization were not as high as managers thought. “We figured that our machines were cutting metal about 50% or so over two shifts. It was more like 40% when monitoring first started. It is now higher than 55% and climbing.
Bill Metz, Vice President Operations Richards Industries
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5 7 RE A S O N S W HY T O TRY
1. Join the many smart factories in North America
34. Safe trees!
2. No hidden cost
35. Get rid of your stop watch and use it for your
3. Keep your data after the Free Trial
children running labs
4. See what Cloud is all about
36. Support your CIP culture
5. Take your production with you on your mobile
37. Faster ROI on expensive assets
device
38. Increase your ROCE
6. Share your performance data
39. Stalk your machine and intervene in real time
7. Become a thought leader
40. Drive results in productivity with a guaranteed
8. Well, it's free. No reason not to try. 9. Learn by Doing 10. Investigate what it takes to run a project 11. Learn about benefits 12. Get your Machien Intelligence for free 13. Safe money for Free 14. Get some real insight into your production 15. Learn about potential cost savings 16. Understand your machine 17. Improve communication on the shop and top floor 18. Get a taste of IIoT without the effort of a fullblown project 19. Visualize your Machine Data
10% uptime gain in the first month 41. Test drive the latest IoT platform – no strings attached 42. Speak Machine via the latest FORCAM FORCETM BRIDGE “MTConnect” plug-in 43. Drive visibility and transparency with web-based and mobile Apps 44. Transform to a transparent factory - on the example of 1 machine 45. Free up your time to do something else important for your company 46. Teach your team memebrs something new 47. Draft a new strategy - you will need it for your full deployment
20. Use Data immediately
48. Bragging rights
21. Use as Pilot to estimate Project cost
49. Expertise availble when needed from your team
22. Establish a CIP-Team
at FORCAM
23. Learn about Tarining needs
50. See that security is no issue
24. Budget investment
51. Learn a new skill
25. Initiate the discussion based on objective data
52. Create a mini success story
26. Get started with your Smart Factory
53. Visualize on the shop floor to show how power-
27. Experience the power of the Industrial IoT
ful machine monitoring is
28. Motivate your employees
54. Envision how to use visualization as a motivator
29. PDCA-cycle in action
55. Experience how the alerting function can actu-
30. Proactively use the metric OEE 31. Get to know the wonderful people at FORCAM 32. Enhance your productivity 33. Rid yourself of manual documentation
ally save a shift 56. You know FORCAM is the best and provides excellent service and support when needed 57. You at least want to say: I have tried.
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