Challenge: Implement a manufacturing intelligence solutions at a brownfield site in the food and beverage industry. Deploy a data acquisition and analysis solutions by setting the necessary configuration parameters without having to modify any existing hardware or software and regardless of who supplied the existing control system.
 
Obstacles to overcome: In a smart factory, components need to communicate and interact seamlessly with existing IT and OT installations. There should be an unbroken logical chain for each customer order that can be executed automatically, start to finish. A machine should know when it needs to speed up or slow down – when it should request additional materials or refuse them. Currently, these decisions still require the experience of human operators, but in the future the machines should be able to handle them autonomously.
 
Solution: Development of a versatile, open solution for collecting, standardizing and evaluating data in real time. Allow operators to check relevant parameters on site and intervene immediately when necessary.
 
Advantages: 
Achieve higher operational effectiveness of the appliances
Improved brownfield competitiveness