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Overview of Digital Transformation Journey
- Digital transformation is reshaping how businesses conduct manufacturing operations
- The key driver is the vast amount of data being generated across engineering, design, smart factory operations, and smart product services
- However, most of this data is not being utilized effectively to drive value
Challenges in the Digital Transformation Journey
The presenters identified five key challenges in enabling a successful digital transformation:
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Data Integration:
- Dealing with legacy protocols, diverse asset classes, and various data formats
- Requirement for real-time data processing and decision-making
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Data Contextualization:
- Associating data with the right context, such as asset hierarchies and relationships
- Generating meaningful information from raw data
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Edge Computing:
- Balancing edge and cloud-based data processing and analytics
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Scalability:
- Ability to scale across multiple asset classes and facilities without significant rework
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Security and Interoperability:
- Ensuring secure data exchange and integration with enterprise applications
Defining a Modern Industrial Data Strategy
- The key is to make the data and information interoperable for different applications and use cases
- This allows reusing the effort put into data collection and organization for multiple applications
AWS IoT SiteWise: Enabling a Scalable Data Platform
- AWS IoT SiteWise is designed to simplify the process of data collection, organization, and integration with various analytics services
- It provides support for a wide range of protocols and secondary sensors, enabling seamless data ingestion from diverse asset classes
Rǣrig Pacific's Digital Transformation Journey
- Rǣrig Pacific is a 111-year-old manufacturing company producing plastic containers and supply chain solutions
- They faced challenges with legacy equipment, lack of connectivity, and siloed data across their facilities
- Key principles in their approach:
- Comprehensive framework to connect maximum assets with minimal edge devices
- Ensuring data and network security at the core of the solution
- Maintaining a high degree of "data freedom" to avoid vendor lock-in
Rǣrig Pacific's Solution Architecture
- Leveraged Belden's Horizon Data Operations platform to connect various assets (e.g., injection molding machines, PLCs, robots) using protocols like EuroMap 63, OPC UA, and MQTT
- Utilized Cloud Rail for power monitoring and iLink sensors for secondary data collection
- Integrated the data into AWS IoT SiteWise for contextualization and further processing
- Built dashboards and integrated the data into their MES system for real-time visibility and analysis
- Exploring use cases like predictive maintenance, digital work cell orchestration, and line comparison
Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
- Digital transformation is more than just data collection and storage
- It requires a holistic approach to enable interoperability, security, sustainability, and human-centric design
- Rǣrig Pacific's journey showcases the importance of starting with a specific use case but building a scalable data platform architecture
- The presenters also highlighted the value of AWS IoT SiteWise in enabling a modern industrial data strategy and showcased the new generative AI-powered assistant feature