Create a Green Patch in Your Brownfield: Getting Started w/ IoT in Manufacturing - ERP Spain.com - España y América Latina

A practical way to get started with IIoT in a brownfield factory is by creating a “Green Patch in your Brownfield.” The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) takes advantage of the latest software and hardware capabilities to increase productivity. Sounds fantastic – right? But in the manufacturing space, organizations are often faced with brownfield environments including legacy computing systems and capital assets that are decades old. Integration can be a major challenge. The machine control systems typically are not networked and do not communicate with each other. Rewriting machine control code is an investment that carries a potential risk, and the machinery’s electrical and mechanical components may not be capable of executing on the new control capability. So how can manufacturers go from brownfields to greener pastures? By revisiting a 1970’s retro-concept – the focused factory, or factory within a factory. You essentially make a smaller – yet still greenfield – IIoT investment inside your existing facility. A greenfield means fresh equipment, tooling and state-of-the-art Operational Technologies (OT) and Information Technologies (IT) with the bandwidth, processing power and memory needed to apply advanced software and processes. This definition also applies to a green patch, only on a more limited scale. These capabilities support predictive maintenance, supply chain visibility, energy management, rapid changeovers, product lifecycle management and more. Join thought leaders from the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) membership to discuss: •Selecting a project or process for a “green patch” implementation •Constraints necessary to mitigate risk •Getting started with analytics •Success measurement using Overall Equipment Effectiveness Six Sigma KPIs