The global competitive pressure in Germany requires manufacturing companies to optimize processes across the entire value chain, ensuring high transparency in production, reduced order lead times, and cost reduction measures.

Innovative IoT Application Scenarios

Through targeted control and analysis capabilities, we enable successful automation for leading companies in process-oriented and discrete manufacturing.

Specific IoT scenarios in discrete manufacturing include tracking and monitoring to optimize asset utilization.

For process manufacturing, the use of autonomous robots offers a way to automate dangerous process steps for human operators.

Why IoT and Industry 4.0?

In the context of globalization and increasing competitiveness, the following factors are becoming increasingly important for production companies:

• Reducing order lead times within the company and in coordination with upstream and downstream production facilities.
• Predicting disruptions (predictive maintenance) and their impact on upstream and downstream processes.
• Automatically generating solution proposals to maintain production while ensuring the required product quality and delivery dates.
• Automatically generating alternative solutions for error compensation and troubleshooting as suggestions for the individuals involved in the process.
• Providing tools for rapid decision-making.
• Improving quality while maintaining transparency in manufacturing.
• Cost reduction measures in production with the goal of optimal resource utilization.
• Delivering key performance indicators for efficient business management through real-time processing of target deviations in the production and supply chain.

Software Development as the “Enabler” for Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT)

With our profound expertise in software development and architecture in the context of the Internet of Things, we support your Industry 4.0 implementation. This involves leveraging standard technologies and methods such as Enterprise Service Bus, hubs, microservices, and the introduction of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Using Microsoft Azure and Microsoft IoT Suite (IoT Edge and Unified IoT), we assist our customers in developing their middleware solutions for cyber-physical system communication. In the cross-company production process, we integrate mobile devices, as well as mobile and stationary sensors, into a seamless communication layer and information platform.

Furthermore, we collaborate with you to develop the appropriate assistance systems using the Azure Machine Learning Suite, making your production and processes more effective.

Benefit from reduced production costs, minimized order lead times, increased transparency in manufacturing, and improved quality. By providing services for mobile devices (apps for tablets, smartphones, etc.) and cloud integration, we strengthen the critical area of human-machine interaction.

Enhancing Efficiency for Your IoT Projects

With our services, including envisioning/initial workshops, assessments, design, implementation, operation, and support of the solution, we offer our profound cloud knowledge as standardized best practice service packages. The goal is to accelerate your cloud projects, educate and relieve your development teams, and provide you with the freedom to focus on your domain expertise and building your digital business.

The following service packages are available to you at the touch of a button. Please inquire directly, and our experts will contact you.