Use Cases

A leading food manufacturing company in the world; US based food major and operating 24 plants across the globe

PAIN POINTS

• No global visibility of key performance indicators from each plant
• No harmonious integration of plants to achieve the maximum value realization from global assets
• Each plant operates in isolation
• Too many IT systems are used for each plant

SOLUTION – Industry 4.0 Road Map

• Conducted a series of meeting with client executive team to chart out strategic and tactical Industry 4.0 road maps
• Prepared the global Industry 4.0 solution to integrate all plants to produce seamless dashboard across the boundaries
• Suggested a novel solution to integrate Industry 4.0 eco system and existing IT landscape (SAP, MES etc.)

No mechanism available to capture customer feedback from social medias , ex: product complaint issues

PAIN POINTS

• Customer complaints from social media is a to be traced before it become viral and inflict maximum damage to the organization
• The client still runs on traditional modes to address customer concerns like mail and phones chain

SOLUTION – BIG DATA

• Proposed BIG DATA solution to alter the marketing and after sales team the moment a customer post a comment if social media like Face Book or Twitter
• Client team can take remedy action within few minutes once they hear customer concern from social media
• Big data solution will intelligently monitor the incoming data from the social media and inform the right stakeholders accordingly

A leading auto ancillary company in India

• Persistence machine down time from a special purpose machine – Varnishing plant (Bottle neck machine)
• Entire manufacturing line gets blocked due to sudden stoppage of this special purpose machine
• Can not attain the planned production target due to sudden machine downtime

SOLUTION – IIOT/Cloud/ML

• IoT solution with required sensors in place to measure the temperature deviation from the varnishing machine
• Big data platform will ingest data from the IoT platform and alert the maintenance engineers in case of any immediate action required, ML Solution to predict failure rate for machine spare parts
• The outcome can be integrated with existing IT system in place

A leading auto ancillary company in India

PAIN POINTS

• Persistence quality issues from a special purpose machine – Varnishing plant
• Defective armatures from the machine due various reasons like inconsistent varnish trickling
• Significant customer complaints due to armature quality issues
• Deployed a dedicated quality engineer

SOLUTION – IOT/Cloud/ML

• Cost effective and state of the art IoT/Cloud/ML solution to detect any quality problem from the armature
• Eliminate quality issues due to manual supervision
• The proposed solution will become more intelligence on daily basis by virtue of securing more data

A leading electronics manufacturing entity from India

PAIN POINTS

• Long lead times to manufacture the prototype for new packing designs
• Hindrance to release new product introduction due to prolonged lead time for sub components

SOLUTION – 3D Printing

• 3D printed packaging prototypes can be made within a day against 8 weeks lead time for wooden packaging product
• Achieve rapid prototyping capability to launch new products within short time
• Extend the learning to other parts as well, for example manufacturing small parts in metal 3D printers