MES serves as a fully integrated digital system of record that connects people, systems, machines, and supply chains, providing unmatched visibility, quality, and control from the shop floor to the top floor.

Solution:
Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

 

Plex is a cloud-based solution designed to enhance manufacturing processes. This platform aims to simplify operations and improve business efficiency.

It connects, automates, tracks and analyzes your operations.

Build better maintenance teams and achieve improved business outcomes through easy-to-use, open ecosystem, pre-built integrations, and industry expertise that enhance efficiency, asset health, and sustainability.

Solution:

Fiix: A Comprehensive Maintenance Management Solution

Fiix is a cloud-based computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) designed to address various maintenance challenges faced by organizations. The software is engineered to streamline maintenance processes, enhance productivity, and improve asset performance.

In today's dynamic manufacturing environment, harnessing data from plant floor devices is essential for success. Analytics and reports help turn raw data into actionable insights.

Innovative Analytics and Reporting solutions designed for the manufacturing sector are available. These platforms make it easy for users to harness the power of their data without needing to be tech experts.

Recovering from a disaster requires planning and preparation. In the rapidly changing automation landscape, downtime poses significant risks, and FactoryXT has deployed bundled solutions to protect critical assets from unauthorized actions, configuration gaps, and security breaches.

FactoryXT presents solutions designed to address the security and reliability challenges faced by modern manufacturing operations. This comprehensive solution aims to safeguard critical assets in the ever-evolving landscape of automation and control systems.

Secure Access and Monitoring

The bundled solution offers:

• SCADA Software and Hardware: Providing granular control over access to critical actions.
• Change Tracking: Monitoring modifications to automation configuration files in real-time.
• Activity Logging: Recording who made changes and when they occurred.

Simplified Disaster Recovery

The solution includes:

• Verified Recovery: Enabling quick restoration of devices, programs, and configurations from protected master files.
• Automated Backups: Safely storing critical applications in a trusted environment.
• Version Control: Securely archiving program files.

In the manufacturing industry, unexpected downtime can be costly in both time and money. A system that can detect and identify vibration anomalies that lead to machine failures before they happen is critical to minimizing unplanned downtime.

Continuous Automated Vibration Machine Monitoring

In the manufacturing industry, unexpected downtime can be costly in both time and money. A system that can detect and identify vibration anomalies that lead to machine failures before they happen is critical to minimizing unplanned downtime. To prevent these disruptions, FactoryXT offers a solution that helps identify and address machine failures before they escalate into significant issues.

FactoryXT's predictive maintenance system provides a proactive approach to machine monitoring:

1. Gather Vibration Data: Sensors are strategically placed on rotating components of machinery to continuously monitor performance.
2. Continuously Analyze Data: Advanced software tools analyze the data collected from the sensors, looking for anomalies that could indicate potential problems.
3. Get Actionable Alerts: When the software detects any irregularities, it sends alerts to maintenance personnel, enabling timely corrective actions.

Dashboards displaying key performance indicators (KPIs) like real-time output, quality measurements, and machine utilization assist production managers to identify bottlenecks, trends, and opportunities for improvement.

In the current manufacturing landscape, access to accurate, real-time production data is essential for maintaining operational efficiency. Production monitoring software solutions a re increasingly recognized as vital tools for manufacturers aiming to optimize their processes and reduce costs.

The Role of Production Monitoring

Production monitoring software functions as a centralized platform for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data from various stages of the production process. By providing insights into key performance indicators (KPIs) such as production output, quality metrics, and machine utilization, these systems assist production managers in:

• Identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies
• Recognizing trends
• Making informed decisions to enhance production

The evolution of the connected worker addresses current labor challenges while enhancing employee engagement, automation, and efficiency, enabling adaptability to generational shifts now and in the future.

In today's rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape, the concept of the connected worker has become increasingly crucial. This evolution is not merely a response to current labor challenges but represents a fundamental shift in how businesses approach their workforce, automation, and efficiency strategies. The connected worker paradigm is designed to build resilience and adaptability in the face of ongoing generational shifts.

Fault tolerance in OT/IT infrastructure is the ability of a system to continue functioning even when it experiences failures, disruptions, or faults. FactoryXT can design and build resilient fault tolerant systems to meet your specific needs.

The goal of fault tolerance is to minimize service disruptions and ensure that the system continues to operate reliably. Fault-tolerant systems are able to deliver these levels of availability, because they can “tolerate” or withstand both hardware and software “faults” or failures. They typically do this by either proactively monitoring and preventing critical systems from failing in the first place, or by completely mitigating the risk of a catastrophic component or system failure.

Fault-tolerance can be achieved using both software-based and hardware-based approaches.

• Software based approach - all data committed to disk is mirrored across redundant systems. More sophisticated software-based approaches also replicate uncommitted data, or data in memory, to a redundant system. In the event of a primary system failure, a secondary backup system resumes operation, taking over from the exact moment the primary system fails, so that no transactions or data are either duplicated or lost.
• Hardware-based approach - redundant systems run simultaneously. Parallel servers perform identical tasks, so that if one server fails, the other server continues to process transactions or deliver services. This approach relies on the statistical probability of both systems simultaneously failing being extremely low. Only one server is actually needed to deliver applications, but having two servers helps ensure that at least one will always be running.
• A software-defined approach to data center infrastructure, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) integrates computing, networking, and storage into a single system managed by a hypervisor. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) offers a modern, software-defined approach to data center management by integrating computing, networking, and storage into a single system managed by a hypervisor layer. This integration simplifies IT operations and enhances overall efficiency.

Manufacturers can leverage the power of Ai to be more productive, increase safety and be more competitive in today’s environment.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful tool for manufacturers to boost productivity, enhance safety, and maintain a competitive edge.

• Digital Twin Technology
• Real-time analytics and decision making
• Predictive Maintenance
• Process Optimization
• Industrial IoT Integration
• Performance Management