Cloud, yes. Dependence, no.
All the company’s infrastructure is in the cloud. Production, however, cannot stop if the connection fails, nor share risks between lines.
SUCCESS STORIES · IN PRODUCTION
It’s not a promise.
It’s already on the plant floor.
Two industrial companies that work every day with IoT Gateway NG + Edge Manager: isolated, secure lines with AI at the machine, and distributed plants managed from a single point.
CASE 01 / SECURITY, DATA AND QUALITY
Sàbat Lligats Metàl·lics, S.L.
Each line, its own environment.
All connected to the business.
Sàbat runs its company infrastructure in the cloud, but production does not depend on it. As a security measure, five production lines and one shear work protected by IoT Gateway NG, each in its own isolated environment.
- 5 + 1production lines and one shear protected
- 6fully isolated working environments
- Real timecontextualised data to the MES and the ERP
- AIimage-based quality control on two lines
COMPANY CLOUD
Connected · real timeNo connectionMESERP
- Line 1IoT Gateway NGProducing
- Line 2IoT Gateway NGProducing
- Line 3IoT Gateway NGProducing
- Line 4IoT Gateway NGProducing
- Line 5IoT Gateway NGProducing
- ShearIoT Gateway NGProducing
Each line and the shear have their own gateway and their own isolated environment. If the cloud does not respond, they keep working.
One gateway per line.
Each IoT Gateway NG creates an isolated working environment. It collects the line’s telemetry, processes it at the plant and feeds it to the MES and the ERP fully contextualised, in real time.
Security and useful data.
- Lines that do not depend on cloud servers to run.
- MES and ERP fed with contextualised data, instantly.
- Performance metrics such as MTTR and other indicators, calculated in real time.
AI · COMPUTER VISIONAI inspects every part.
AI inspects every part.
Right at the line.
On two of the lines, the gateways also capture photos of the robots in operation. An AI image-recognition model analyses them on the gateway itself and makes decisions on the quality of the finished product, in real time.
- Images taken while the robots operate
- AI image recognition, run at the plant
- Quality decision on the finished product
CASE 02 / MULTI-PLANT, ZERO SITE VISITS
COMFORSA Comercial de la Forja, S.A.U.
Several plants.
One single point of management.
COMFORSA’s plants were provisioned, and are managed, from a single point. The software company that did the deployment did not have to make a single site visit.
- 0site visits by the software company
- 1single point of provisioning and management
- Allthe data from each plant, collected
- Real timeinformation available to the business
Edge ManagerA single point of managementProvision and commission the software of all plants, remotely.
- LOCATION 1PlantIoT Gateway NG
- LOCATION 2PlantIoT Gateway NG
- LOCATION NPlantIoT Gateway NG
KAFKAReal-time data transport
Centralised databaseBusiness information, in real time
- 01At the plant · COMFORSA staff
Physical installation
COMFORSA’s own staff mounted and connected the devices at each plant. No technician from the software company had to travel.
- 02Remotely · Edge Manager
Centralised commissioning
From a single point and remotely, all the gateway software was provisioned and commissioned.
- 03Continuously · Kafka
Data to the business
The data from each plant travels over Kafka to a centralised database, available to the business in real time.