Enterprises driving Industry 4.0 goals are enabling higher product customizations, smaller lot size, higher product consistency and better integration with supply chain. This transformation is being supplemented by the need to achieve higher machine and workforce productivity. This trend naturally creates new challenges in ensuring quality of product.
Our client, a global leader in providing manufacturing intelligence software for quality management, wanted to upgrade their existing on-premise solution to support their clients in their Industry 4.0 goals.
We supported this vision of our client by helping to build a multi-tenant cloud-based manufacturing intelligence platform that offers quality as a service. This platform leverages techniques such as statistical process control to create insights from the data. The data can be collected from devices connected via COM ports, IP based devices etc and the collection process can be manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic. The insights that are generated from data can be presented to users as per their needs and this is facilitated through role-based data access, drill down analytics, multiple language support and customizable visualizations.
The product development of this award-winning platform followed an agile scrum model using scrum of scrum framework with a single product backlog. The solution was architected to ensure built-in capability for ensuring high availability and high resilience for minimizing downtime in a smart factory. The solution provides visual representation of the complete manufacturing lines and enables end to end traceability of parts and product.
With multiple deployment options – SaaS, Hybrid, On-Premise – the solution provides highest flexibility to clients, while reducing their overall operational costs. The built-in pro-active user assistance helps workers to receive timely notifications which avoids situations that they miss sampling or collection of data, thereby improving the overall quality management. Finally, the intuitive design of the user interface ensures that workers on the shop floor can start using an industry 4.0 solution, without extensive trainings.