3.3 billion litres of water are lost through leaking pipes each day in the UK. As a result, water authorities face increasing demand to find innovative ways to monitor water flow within pipes. Currently, GSM data loggers are used to monitor water flow wirelessly and improve the efficiency of dealing with leaks. The big problem with GSM loggers is they use a network specific SIM, which means different SIMs are required for different locations due to network coverage.

This document summarizes the manufacturing execution system (MES), or manufacturing operations management (MOM) solution implemented by a leading Automotive manufacturer to manage the complex assembly of the engine for their new Supercar. The MES/MOM was integral to ensure each and every single of the nearly two-thousand (2,000) process steps involved to build the engine were completed to the set specifications or tolerances without fail. MES/MOM ensured zero-defects during the assembly of the engines since it monitored and controlled all operations; all tools and devices, and the line workers themselves since the MES/MOM directed them from job start to end. The MES/MOM verified worker credentials, provided work instructions, and confirmed that the materials and tools were properly selected for the exact task at hand. Destined for the Automotive manufacturer’s highest-performance GT sports car (see Figure 1), the twin-turbo charged V6 “EcoBoost” engine is vital to the success of the final product. Given the intricacy of the engine and the number of steps needed to assemble it, and its high tolerances, the MES/MOM proved indispensable.

Customers have very similar challenges nowadays. Cost saving is high on the agenda as is safety. Common themes under customers with Materials Handling Equipment are; how to make sure that they stay within contracted hours but not under use the equipment. Another point is out of contract cost caused by misuse of equipment. We from Hyster like to help our customers to find a solution that fits your organization. With Hyster Tracker we are able to track your trucks and help to save you money. General savings can be up to 20% spread across different parts of the business. For example with the digital operator checklists which saves time and reduces the paper hassle. Or with the rotation of equipment when we see underutilization in one place and over usage in another, based on the telemetry data.

Providing machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless connectivity to deliver vital traffic information to local municipalities and their motorists to improve traffic safety.

One of the world's largest complex hardware manufacturers' business units, responsible for the post-product validation process, was looking to speed up its time to market and the time it took to identify and resolve process issues. Duplicate debugging hardware and software issues was eating up 70% of production time, slowing down time to market and costing money.

Optimize energy consumption in their retail stores with the highest consumption and their logistics center.

SCG wanted Itron to modernize and manage its Advanced Metering Infrastructure system, helping the company optimize the delivery of natural gas, improve customer service and streamline business operations. SCG wanted the system to be scaled for customer growth, providing hourly reads for all customers, and offer remote shutoff and enhanced security features.

An aircraft manufacturer wanted to improve their spare part inventory management for 15,000 out of production aircraft. Customers needed stock parts that couldn’t be sourced since they were never required to be repaired or replaced on the aircraft. The parts would need to be produced on demand and have a long lead time for production - typically up to six months - resulting in airlines grounding their aircraft at an average loss of one million per day. As a result, the manufacturer needed to anticipate which of their spare parts would fail before an issue was communicated - leading to better inventory planning, supply chain decision making, and a total reduction in operating costs. Additionally, the company wanted to know whether to purchase more than one spare part at a given time when a problem had been reported, whether they should stock a certain spare part in advance due to the long lead time, and whether they could reduce the number of service engineer man hours spent answering customer questions about the stock parts by having better access to information. Stocking decision was also made difficult because of limited communication between the spares management employees and the service engineers, resulting in high levels of ‘dead’ stock for the manufacturer. The goal was to reduce maintenance costs and increase customer satisfaction and retention without compromising aircraft production quality, safety and lives.

Traditionally, farmers either apply a high dosage or a high number of repeat sprayings of chemicals as they do not want to risk any disease or damage to the crops on which their livelihoods depend. This is quite inefficient in terms of both time and money wasted. Dacom aimed to increase the effectiveness of these farmers by providing them with accurate, real-time, and streamlined information.

The key business challenges are: - Effective prevention of derailments - Reduction of oil spills on railroad transportation of crude oils - Alerts to first responders depending on material carried - Public safety answering points (PSAPs) and State Emergency Response Commissions (SERCs) need to know the schedule, load, and location - Flawless communication between PSAPs and first responders

More than 300 trains crossed the Burlington Bridge every month and tons of travel on barges below. It was therefore decided that shutting down rail or river traffic during the construction of a new bridge would only be allowed during a single 30-hour period. With such heavy usage demands, constant river level changes and the inherent complications of working with a 115 year old bridge, monitoring was key to this project. Knowing how and when the bridge moves, vibrates, tilts and bends proved critical for establishing a safe working environment as well as maintaining the bridge’s operational status.

The legacy system had difficulties that certificates could not be renewed on-line and Active Directory could not automatically synchronize each time a smart card was issued. The new system had to interface to a VPN solution and offer a standardized smart card administration tool which would be made available at all the company’s sites.

Nike is looking for ways to reduce the amount of material and labor needed to make high-performance, customized footwear and speed the delivery of its products to all kinds of athletes. Laser-cutting could scale down the amount of equipment needed to create the 20 to 30 parts of a typical shoe. However, Laser-cutting always leaves burnt edges on soft fabrics.

The shipping and installing the physical demo equipment to be displayed at trade show exhibitions is expensive, time consuming and requires significant manpower.

CSL invented integrated dual signalling back in 1996 and pioneered the move from wired to wireless technology in the electronic security industry. Today, its solutions protect over 350,000 premises throughout Europe. Working with Vodafone IoT the company is using its pedigree gained in the Fire & Security sector to move into new verticals where robust critical connectivity adds value to M2M/IoT applications.

The implementation of ERP software in a Discrete Manufacturing organization needs to be strategic, irrespective of its size and capacity. The client had already implemented an ERP system which fulfilled their requirements but was not efficient enough. Efficiency here meant Synchronized Planning, Updating and Multisite Planning. Planning at client’s place was done outside the ERP system. Lack of proper synchronization to the ERP system paved way to huge delays in the changes getting updated in the system. These delays caused disruption in achieving delivery schedules. Multisite Planning is a solution to an organization which has multiple production units (may or may not be geographically separated) and thus needs planning across these units to synchronize production activities within them. The client also has multiple factories and hence Production Planning control is very essential in their case. Since Multisite planning was not possible with Baan ERP system, this was another bottleneck for the client.

Agfa Graphics wanted to gain greater insight into performance and costs, and to improve planning through far-reaching integration with shop-floor legacy systems. Agfa Graphics needed to build and integrate a system that routes finished products to clients worldwide on a just-in-time basis, taking into account urgent and rush orders.

Solavei offers $49 unlimited voice, text, and data mobile service on a nationwide 4G network. Solavei enables members to connect, share and capitalize on the power of social networks through its platform. Solavei launched with a mission to make commerce less expensive and even profitable by empowering individuals to earn income on the products and services they enjoy and use every day. Solavei is the first mobile service that pays people back for adding new members. The company partnered with GlobalLogic to build this groundbreaking idea from concept into a full-fledged working solution. Currently, GlobalLogic owns the engineering arm and partners with Solavei to drive the platform's evolution.

The Transport Administration is responsible for Sweden’s infrastructure. They plan the transportation system, decide on building projects, provide maintenance, procure services and are responsible for traffic information. In the early 1990s, the Administration introduced speed cameras, which monitor traffic on certain roads and photograph violations. The problem was that the cameras had to be emptied manually, which led to time-consuming administration and extra travel. The requirements for the new solution were higher: In addition to being connected to the cloud, the requirements for reliability and accessibility were extremely high.

It became clear that the SCADA system was not an infallible means ofmonitoring field stations; the systems would sometimes lose connection with the host computer. This caused delays in personnel response to alarms and increased the risk of severe warnings not being received before corrective actions could be implemented. As a precaution, the alarm points had to be visually monitored and staff would be required to call the appropriate personnel if an alarm came through. Regulations wereestablished for timely reporting. The management at West Texas Gas quickly determined that a secondary alarm support system needed to be installed. They were seeking something that would be able to monitor variable tags from the OPC server as well as monitor custom tags that were built into the existing SV32 SCADA system to observe and report flare volumes.

Menora Mivtachim, one of Israel's largest pension fund and insurance carriers, was facing a significant challenge due to demographic trends in Israel. The growing rate of retirement planning and services was putting unprecedented pressure on the already strained insurance sector. The pension claims process was bottlenecked with complexities, bureaucracy, and errors. Menora Mivtachim's existing pension process was heavily manual and spreadsheet-based, requiring a team of 10 full-time employees to manage. The process involved gathering applicant information, conducting personal surveys, compiling bank information, and finalizing agreements. To leverage the growing opportunity in the retirement sector and position themselves as innovative insurtech leaders, Menora Mivtachim needed to digitalize their process, streamline the claims experience, and reduce quote times through automated processes.

When it came to modernisation of the existing compressed air station, the company’s management decided to opt for a compressed air contracting arrangement to ensure that the compressed air supply would always meet the latest technical standards and be capable of taking advantage of the benefits that Industry 4.0 has to offer – and not least due to the frequent fluctuations in demand in the automotive supplier industry. In this operator model, the compressed air station itself remains the property of the air system provider, whilst the customer simply uses the compressed air as needed, just like power from an electrical socket, paying only for the volume of compressed air actually used – and always at the same fixed rate. From an accounting perspective, this effectively turns fixed costs into variable costs. At Scholz, the new station was installed in a space-saving container on the roof of the company building.

When complex systems are developed for a customer and commissioned with a particular delivery state, a data management system can make it easier to archive commissioned versions and track subsequent changes made by the customer.

There are 5 million in ground swimming pools in the US, with 1.5 million in California alone. These pool owners waste $30-90 per month on electricity running their pool pumps for too long and at times when utility rates are high. The PoolEnergy team has been working with SDG&E, the CPUC, EPA, and DOE to oer an intelligent energy management system for pool owners. This system is a combination of energy eciency and demand response services saving property owners money and creates a sustainable smart grid resource in energy emergencies.

DJO Global developed the MotionMD software solution that automates DME claims management, inventory dispensing and physician protocols, which in turn helps optimize productivity and improve patient outcomes with point-of-care technology. The company’s technologies also help providers improve billing accuracy and ensure timely collection of reimbursements. For both physician practices and hospitals, integrating patient data across systems has historically been a challenge, requiring complex processes, significant manual labor, painstaking repetitive data entry and piles of error-prone paperwork. With the widespread adoption of billing and revenue management software modules, electronic medical records (EMRs) and practice management systems, healthcare organizations have seen the need for data integration solutions to deliver the right information at the right time, while adhering to HIPAA security regulations.

The testing, checking and tracing of the component source is essential to produce quality products. Servicing customers when company representatives are in the field addressing possible failures. Maximum uptime. Progressive Stamping, Inc. wanted a solution that can meet all these requirements.

For cities and companies involved in new construction or site transformations, areas with unstable or poor quality power can cause problems and diesel and other similar generators can add another one: expense. In the context of high traditional energy prices, the trend of low-carbon, energy saving, environmental protection, renewable energy will become increasingly important in the field of communications power supply. Especially along with its technology improvement, the traditional renewable energy hybrid power solution can’t fully meet with customer’s demands, especially on the energy management, energy monitoring, system upgrading, product efficiency, environment adaptability, etc.

Entitles multiplex products which to be designed, imitated, and validated for multi-physics simulation, electronic design automation, and  Faststream’s software management – across various domains without the requirements of physical prototypes. Faststream creates Digital planning, simulation, and optimization of the production with automatic generation of the PLC code that generates the production digital twin. Faststream’s Digital Twin solutions are continuously fed with data from the physical product and the production amenities, which guides to the new perceptions. With the partnership of Mindsphere Faststream Technologies is Feeding back all intuitions into the complete value chain– right back to product design – generates a fully closed decision-making loop for the continuous optimization of the production and product in the real world. Technology stack:Manufacturing Execution SystemsMechatronics Concept DesignerTotally Integrated AutomationMindSphereIn Oil and Gas Company: The Client:One of the reputed consultants who took part in the designing, manufacturing of cutting-edge technology systems and products for the oil and gas industry.Profound competency across subsea, onshore/offshore, and surface projects. The Problem:The client looked for real-time visibility for the health status of the Early Production System.More signals were processed and human intervention was unable to find anomalies that lead to performance abasement.The yield and profitability of the projects decreased as there was a lack of sensor intelligence or apparatus detections.

Courier delivery enterprises need intelligent locks for terminal authorization unlock,  check and control through the unlock record. 

For over 30 years Elekta has been responsible for introducing many market leading, critical technological advances in radiation oncology. Elekta’s Linear Accelerators support a range of pre-configured and optional delivery techniques, providing the physician with the flexibility to tailor the treatment to suit the needs of each individual patient. Remote access was unavailable on complex devices and Elekta was unable to understand machine performance based on real data, which meant the company could not respond immediately to customer problems. This, in turn, meant that Elekta was unable to detect and solve problems on the spot, restricting the company to a reactive service model. A typical patient treatment schedule could require daily treatment for a period of 4-6 weeks, making machine uptime extremely important. Given the complexity of the device and the amount of data that would need to be collected, it was obvious that an automated solution was required. The infrastructure would need the ability to manage the data volume from the devices and also provide a platform that would scale in both size and complexity. “When a customer buys a service agreement, what they are buying is system uptime. They are buying the ability to consistently deliver treatment… patient to patient,” says Martin Gilday, Vice President of Services at Elekta. “Service is not simply a single engineer with a trunk load of parts, but a full portfolio of technical expertise delivered via multiple channels...it’s a big change in the way that you think about service.” Elekta’s success has been built upon innovative engineering, which led to a culture of in-house work. As the company matured and grew, it realized that this was not necessarily the most effective way of working. With the complexity of the product itself, internal engineering expertise would be crucial to solve the company’s service challenges. While the product itself was unique, the methodologies and best practices of accessing and servicing the product were based on industry standards. When customers have service issues that need to be resolved, machine data must be collected and interpreted, and engineers need a deep level of skills and understanding. An integrated solution that brought the data, knowledge, and skills together in a highly connected environment was required. “Customers see connectivity as providing efficiency gains,” says Bruce Fullerton, Vice President of Service and Support. “Their key performance indicators are based around how many customers they can treat in a given space of time.”