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In the manufacturing ecosystem, production equipment plays a crucial role in factory operations. However, for factory managers, tracking and maintaining these machines are always important but annoying, especially those large ones covering an area to several hundred kilometers and owning multiple complex facilities. Traditional methods, relying on manual checks and documentation, often leading to human errors and wasted time. IoT solutions step in as a great alternative to mitigate or even replace the role of tradition labor, offering a relatively labor-efficient and automated solution to manage these critical assets.
Challenge
The operational manager of a multinational business recently felt heavy headaches about the equipment maintenance in a Chinese factory. As the company scale increasingly grows with a rapid speed, more and more manufacturing machines have been added into production lines and put into use. The equipment includes but not limited to loaders, excavators, and motor graders, adding a huge amount of workload for technical team. Under traditional management system, these operational workers need to take notes about the location of every machine. Even worse, they nearly spend all of their working hours to conducting daily checks and recording basic data. This repetitive task harms working efficiency heavily, making the manager realize a more efficient solution is necessary for sustainable growth.
Solution
To handle this annoying matter, this company has introduced a Bluetooth®-powered solution to achieve automatic monitoring. The core part of this solution is the rugged M6 Bluetooth® industrial tag, which has been attached on every piece of equipment. Acting as nodes of the whole wireless network, these tags transmit data package to report location information of machinery. Within the factory, Bluetooth® gateways have been strategically installed to capture these signals from tags, and then relay them to a cloud platform. This centralized platform could process the data, enabling a virtual map to show precise location of every machine in real-time. In this way, workers could track any equipment with a simple click.
Moreover, the built-in three-axis accelerometer of these tags could help to check working status of machines. It helps detect the irregular vibrations to identify potential machine issues at early stages. Via platform, technical members could instantly get such abnormal data and location information of the exact machine for quick examination or repairment. Currently, workers no longer need to inspect all devices daily; only few specific machines now. By replacing troublesome manual processes with data-driven IoT solution, repetitive physical workload has dropped but efficiency is significantly improved.
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