Access holistic real-time insight across shop floors and factories
"To facilitate our clients and boost efficiency and ROI by improving productivity on the shop floor."
— Entrib* mission statement
Executive Summary
Manufacturing equipment is typically designed to gather data, but this information is difficult to consolidate, access, and analyze in a timely manner, causing issues from poor efficiency to unplanned downtime. Entrib Technologies Pvt. LTD data monitoring solution ShopWorx*, running on Intel® architecture-based gateways, is delivering holistic data analysis, shop floor monitoring, and real-time reporting to manufacturers.
Challenges
In today's competitive climate, manufacturers grapple with high rejection rates, frequent machine downtime, and poor productivity. Digital and smart manufacturing blended with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) provides them competitive advantages ranging from operational efficiency to reduced wastage... However, proprietary equipment and multiple incompatible systems often prevent a holistic understanding of the factory floor, and this problem is magnified for managers of multiple plants across different geos.
Solution
Entrib provides a real-time data monitoring, analytics, and reporting solution, ShopWorx*, to ensure smooth operations on the manufacturing shop floor. In conjunction with the Intel architecture-based gateway, the solution brings digital manufacturing to today’s industrial plants. Using real-time data from devices, sensors, machines, and big data analytics—combined with the flexibility of mobile apps—ShopWorx brings people, machines, and processes together to solve the unique challenges of the manufacturing industry.
Manufacturing facilities require access to accurate, real-time data. Real-time monitoring (RTM) conducted with the Entrib and Intel solution gives manufacturers the capability to monitor processes and access visual insights into data. Users get instant alerts and notifications for business-critical events. This can significantly reduce the response time for issues on the shop floor. Data is available in the form of dashboards, reports, and graphs on any device, including tablets and smartphones.
Entrib deploys specialized sensors, real-time data communication with remote systems, and intelligent software applications in manufacturing plants to act as virtual assistants. These virtual assistants help ensure lower rejection rates and improve quality, while offering greater control. The machines automatically and instantaneously send alerts on downtime for immediate corrective action and to maintain productivity targets.
Custom solutions are available to meet the specific requirements of plastics manufacturers and the automotive assembly line.
Ubiquitous, 24/7 on-the-go access to shop floor operations
- Reduce downtime
- Reach new productivity benchmarks
- Manage operations from anywhere
- Monitor shop floor performance
- Increase visibility, analytics, and alarm generation
- Access a reliable view of plants and the status of delivery targets
- View advanced reports targeting critical variables, including production, rejection, downtime, and OEE
- Access accurate Pareto charts for more effective analysis
ShopWorx* combines with the Intel® architecture-based gateway to deliver data on key factors impacting manufacturing operations
Tools for Accurate, Timely Decision-Making
CxO dashboard
- One central access point to production information from all manufacturing facilities, including visualization of performance KPIs and cost analysis
- Monitor performance of all plants in multiple geos and locations from tablet, laptop, or smartphone
- View key metrics in real time
Plant monitoring via TV dashboards
- Allow control room setup for monitoring plant performance
- Get real-time production status of machines, alarms, and notifications for production-critical events
Advanced analytics
- Machine learning based algorithms provide recommendations for improvement in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and help in the production planning process
Digital production log
- Real-time performance monitoring of shop floor
- Multiplant production tracking
- Alarm and escalation mechanism
Real-time machine and production status
- Take immediate actions on real-time production feedback
Management console for reports and analytics
- More than 50 reports featuring specific analytics to address problems faster
Advancing Edge and Cloud Intelligence
Intel and its ecosystem help businesses use the IoT to solve long-standing industry-specific challenges. Quickly develop IoT solutions that connect things, collect data, and derive insights with Intel’s portfolio of open and scalable solutions so you can reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase revenue.
Intel® technologies support the rigorous requirements for programmable logic controllers (PLCs), industrial PCs (IPCs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), robotics, machine vision, and many other industrial applications.
Key Benefits
Get holistic visibility into operations—ShopWorx powered by Intel architecture brings advantages across the manufacturing facility.
Business owner
Personalized dashboards for one-point access to real-time multiplant production data.
Plant head
Analytical data insight and automated digital production log to improve production efficiency.
Senior managers
Reports providing increased visibility and control over respective departments.
Supervisor
SMS alerts and notifications to address machine issues, and mobile access to crossfactory insight to eliminate operator dependency for production data.
Operations
Use the Production Log App or the Planning App Lite to stay updated on the shop floor, change plans dynamically, and maintain a digital log. View the current status of machines and plans, update plans to respond to real-time customer change requests, publish the day’s plans, and track plan deviations.
Production
ShopWorx enables monitoring of current production status for every machine and the shop floor as a whole with alerts for downtime and deviations from planned production.
Monitor planned vs. actual production, track wastage and materials consumption, and view automatic production data reports. Quality inspectors can enter data in real time based on production status using tablets, PCs, or smartphones. Mobile apps provide rejection analysis and machine performance measurement.
Maintenance
Maintenance and tooling departments receive alerts when machines go down and need repair. View analytics and downtime causes on tablets and mobile devices.
How It Works in Brief
The Entrib and Intel® solution gathers, filters, transmits, and analyzes data in real time throughout the manufacturing facility, including sensors, machines, devices, and data stores. Mobile apps parse the data for reportage and edge intelligence, and send alerts and notifications for issues from downtime to equipment malfunctions. Apps provide easy-toread visualization of key data parameters and metrics, and can be accessed from any location on any device.
Mobile apps bring instant access to the shop floor
Plant monitoring
Track machine production status
Real-time graphs
Track production cycle accuracy across plant machines, and gauge the pulse of the shop floor.
Planning app
Create and modify machine production plans.
Wastage app
Manage machine downtimes and material wastages using a tablet-based app.
The Foundation for IoT
The Entrib solution is just one example of how Intel works closely with the IoT ecosystem to help enable smart Internet of Things (IoT) solutions based on standardized, scalable, reliable Intel® architecture and software. These solutions range from sensors and gateways to server and cloud technologies to data analytics algorithms and applications. Intel provides essential end-toend capabilities—performance, manageability, connectivity, analytics, and advanced security—to help accelerate innovation and increase revenue for enterprises, service providers, and industry.
Conclusion
Entrib's ShopWorx, combined with the Intel architecture-based gateway, brings the competitive advantages of IIoT to manufacturers. Designed to meet the specific requirements of industrial operations, ShopWorx allows real-time decision-making based on relevant data to maximise efficiency, productivity, and proactive maintenance.
About Entrib
Entrib is taking digital manufacturing to the next level, bringing critical shop floor information across a range of essential parameters to mobile devices. Providing more comprehensive insight and control is helping manufacturers to excel and to increase shop floor efficiency and productivity.
Learn More
For more information about Entrib, please visit entrib.com or contact us at info@entrib.com.
For more information about Intel® IoT Technology and the Intel IoT Solutions Alliance, please visit intel.com/iot