Smart Factory Fabric on AWS

Smart manufacturing: Potential established, precision required

A machine unexpectedly fails and is off-line waiting for maintenance repair. A factory line continuously reports 10 percent quality rejection over the last week of production. A technician calls in sick, causing a gap on the line for a critical skillset.

These are the kinds of traditional manufacturing challenges that a smart factory can address. By connecting to an organisation’s digital supply network and augmenting human intelligence with artificial intelligence, a smart factory can predict machine downtime by analysing performance trends. It can sense quality degradation and immediately enact correction efforts. And it can actively manage the workforce and track worker safety and performance data.

Transforming the factory requires collaboration between manufacturing, supply chain, and IT, new technologies, and becoming an insight driven organisation. Deloitte has an approach to navigate this change and a proven cloud- and IOT-enabled smart manufacturing solution built with AWS that can help you synchronise people, assets, and processes to execute the transformation efficiently.

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A smart factory solution, tailored for you

Smart Factory Fabric is a pre-configured suite of cloud-based smart factory IoT applications hosted on AWS, designed to accelerate smart manufacturing transformations across the enterprise, customisable to meet your unique needs.

The Smart Factory Fabric platform includes:

• Field-tested technology with a scalable cloud-based and IoT-enabled architecture.
• Integrated use cases addressing the most common factory challenges.
• An ROI-driven deployment approach.
• A focus on user adoption and enterprise transformation.

Smart Factory Fabric is a fully packaged cloud-enabled smart manufacturing solution that enables a scalable proof-of-value for a discrete and process manufacturers in weeks instead of months.

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How Smart Factory Fabric works

The Smart Factory Fabric solution, built on AWS, connects the physical and digital world, leveraging a powerful technology stack:

• At the plant level, the solution can read and offer two-way communication with a multitude of edge devices, reducing latency and getting information real-time.
• The pertinent information can be ported to the cloud layer, allowing for rich data analysis, modeling, and cognitive processes to create insights.
• A set of applications have been designed to proactively interact with the data insights, modelling alerts, ability to transact, and most importantly, a rich user experience.

Once integrated with your IT landscape and combined with our implementation methodology, the cloud-enabled smart manufacturing technology can activate and transform the factory to adjust manufacturing behaviors and achieve the anticipated ROI.

Smart Factory Fabric provides a global template, flexible enough to onboard multiple facilities. Once fully scaled, it can provide metrics for behaviours facets of the organisation and an integrated view of operations needed to uncover opportunities for improvement and make decisions across your enterprise.

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