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ThinkIQ’s innovative use of vision technology and AI reveals blind spots like no one else. ThinkIQ’s intuitive Semantic Model and Material Ledger allow raw supplier data to be standardized, contextualized, and actually useful, from component-to-delivery. ThinkIQ’s NextGen Historian tracks data over time. With AI analysis, this reveals hidden patterns that provide even more useful insights. ThinkIQ’s 5-step process allows nearly any manufacturer to travel the route to Industry 4.0 Smart Manufacturing, with gains at every stage. ThinkIQ has a proven record with global brands and is leading the establishment of Smart Manufacturing standards. Its platform leads to increased productivity, sustainability, and safety for manufacturers.

Insights Hub drives smart manufacturing through the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Gain actionable insights with asset and operational data and improve your processes. Deliver business value with industrial IoT data by implementing reliable asset monitoring, enhancing manufacturing performance and efficiency enabling quality prediction, and much more. Make improved operational and business decisions with data-driven insights. Connect your assets to the cloud, collect and explore your data, and strategically develop your IoT capabilities. Unlock a world of previously unattainable insights: use intelligent analytic tools to better understand and improve processes. Transform your business, processes, and products at scale. Create a competitive advantage, reduce costs, and improve quality across the entire product lifecycle and supply chain. Transforming the world of smart manufacturing and operations and setting new standards of productivity and sustainability.

Get more from existing assets, lower costs, and set your team up to win with Guidewheel's AI-powered platform. The fastest way to improve factory operations. Accurately track downtime and root causes to improve utilization and efficiency. Forecast throughput and accurately track planned vs. actual production. Monitor OEE in real time and see how you’re trending over time. Accurately track cycles, cycle time, and performance against targets. Monitor energy usage and find opportunities to reduce consumption and cost. Learn of maintenance needs before they develop into issues. Monitor conditions like temperature, flow, humidity, and pressure. Reveal and address losses like preventable downtime, long changeovers, and late starts to unlock hidden capacity. Get AI-driven alerts the moment performance deviates from plan, so your team can take corrective action to stay on track. Build customer trust by delivering on time every time.

Toshiba's Meister Factory is a comprehensive manufacturing IoT solution designed to integrate, visualize, and utilize manufacturing process information managed across multiple systems, aiming to optimize entire value chains in manufacturing. Leveraging Toshiba's expertise in manufacturing, the platform provides smart manufacturing dashboards that enhance yield rates and production efficiency by utilizing IoT and big data at manufacturing sites. It employs Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) with digital twins, utilizing data models that cover manufacturing value chains to reproduce past and current event data in detail within digital spaces. This facilitates better management of overall manufacturing processes by establishing links between factories through the Manufacturing Data Platform Connector, achieving manufacturing traceability, and visualizing production status across multiple factories.

The Smart Factory Platform by msg Plaut is an IT marketplace offering digital use cases as Software as a Service (SaaS) for production and logistics. It enables companies to efficiently utilize applications through a modular system, allowing the subscription to individual apps based on current needs, and ensuring production processes remain up-to-date. Key benefits include minimal effort for digital lean manufacturing processes, maximum flexibility, enhanced transparency in production, accelerated product launches, reduced error rates, and increased overall system efficiency. SFP serves as a blueprint for digital manufacturing architecture, supporting continuous expansion and data-centric production. It offers over 15 digital manufacturing use cases, including predictive quality assurance, value flow analysis, and AI-based employee development and scheduling. The platform facilitates rapid deployment of AI-based apps, providing high transparency and flexibility.

CONTACT Elements for IoT is a comprehensive Smart Factory solution that transcends traditional Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) by integrating advanced maintenance management, energy monitoring, and seamless IT integration. This innovative combination leads to significant cost savings through the reduction of scrap and downtime. The platform offers groundbreaking functionalities, enabling the digitalization of paper-based processes and the interconnection of multiple locations, paving the way toward fully digitalized manufacturing. Features include workforce planning with the Shopfloor Planner, asset and maintenance management, and energy management, all designed to enhance daily operations. CONTACT Elements for IoT supports various stages of digitalization, providing tailored solutions such as digital production, connectivity & automation, and production networks to align with specific manufacturing goals.

CORVINA is an industrial IoT cloud platform engineered for smart manufacturing and machine-builder applications, combining edge management, data analytics, and remote connectivity in a unified system. It enables companies to monitor plants and machines in real time, deploy predictive-maintenance schedules, manage fleets of equipment, analyze machine performance, and reduce downtime, from remote access and VPN tunneling to soft-PLC embedded control, edge visualization, and multi-protocol support. The platform supports the full device-to-cloud workflow; onboarding devices and gateways, secure data transmission, edge computing, and cloud-based dashboards. It integrates easily with existing enterprise systems (ERP, MES, CRM), offers role-based access control and centralized device-management tools, and is backed by a parent company with decades of experience in industrial automation.

The Glassdome Platform is a unified operations platform that transforms real-time manufacturing data into actionable insights for both operational performance and sustainability outcomes. The platform enables manufacturers to collect data directly from equipment and machines across their facility, duplicate and preserve raw data, aggregate and harmonize multiple data sources, adjust and correct anomalies, and deliver automated reporting and dashboards to drive decision-making with precision. With features such as real-time data integration, advanced analytics, customizable dashboards, automated reports, and scalable deployment, the solution supports both production monitoring and product carbon footprint management from the same platform. Users gain visibility into machine downtime, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), scrap rates, quality issues, and staffing/inventory interruptions.

Graph databases, part of Oracle’s converged database offering, eliminate the need to set up a separate database and move data. Analysts and developers can perform fraud detection in banking, find connections and link to data, and improve traceability in smart manufacturing, all while gaining enterprise-grade security, ease of data ingestion, and strong support for data workloads. Oracle Autonomous Database includes Graph Studio, with one-click provisioning, integrated tooling, and security. Graph Studio automates graph data management and simplifies modeling, analysis, and visualization across the graph analytics lifecycle. Oracle provides support for both property and RDF knowledge graphs, and simplifies the process of modeling relational data as graph structures. Interactive graph queries can run directly on graph data or in a high-performance in-memory graph server.

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence works with manufacturers to create solutions for the smart factory. Our hardware and software solutions use data to connect departments, embed continuous learning into all stages of the production process and place intelligent quality at the heart of the product lifecycle. With data informing decision-making from concept to reality, quality drives productivity. From hand tools to automated solutions, coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) to portable measuring arms, laser trackers and optical scanners, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence provides industrial metrology systems for when dimensional measurement matters. Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence is the largest software developer in the metrology industry and offers a wide range of in-house developed, individually-customizable software packages that deliver intelligent and effective data acquisition, analysis and evaluation as well as powerful data management and reporting tools.

MES FLEX is the holistic MES solution for the digitalization of the factory. The integration platform serves as the central data hub of your smart factory. It helps you analyze, plan, control, and optimize your manufacturing processes through modular MES (Manufacturing Execution System) applications. Thanks to its modular structure, the solution can be adapted to your individual needs and goals.

InTouch Systems was set up in 1999 by the Singh family, first-generation techno-industrialists. InTouch is an IT company rooted in Internet of Things (Manufacturing) domain with a suite of products. A smart manufacturing is an informed manufacturing organization which contains four elements: informed products, processes, people and infrastructure. InTouch systems provides a complete solution for barcode / RFID based shop floor production tracking and, finished goods packing and barcode labelling using IcSoft. When a customer buys ‘IcSoft – Beyond ERP’ software, implementation of the software and training the users form a part of the package.

Magnal Shop Floor Control software enables manufacturers to control their shop floor strategy. Magnal Shop Floor Control is part of a smart manufacturing strategy. Production data collection on the factory floor by bar code or RFID is a critical tool in a smart manufacturing strategy. ​Query feature allows easy extraction of data in multiple ways. Seamless integration to any ERP system. Robust, reliable and trouble-free. Adaptable to factories of all sizes. Customization according to customers' needs available at very reasonable costs.

MERLIN Tempus Enterprise Edition (EE) smart manufacturing software extends the capabilities of MERLIN Tempus with full Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), a dynamic job scheduler and connectivity to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. ERP data measures the overhead costs of the manufacturing process. An example is when a factory’s customer calls to find out where an order is. Without MERLIN Tempus EE, the factory’s front office team has to go find out the work order, and physically ask about and locate where the parts are on the plant floor. But equipped with an ERP-connected MERLIN Tempus EE dashboard, they instantly know where the part is in the manufacturing process and when it will be finished and ready to ship. MERLIN Tempus EE feeds the ERP system with real-time data so that the ERP becomes much more relevant. It takes the mystery out of meeting customer deadlines and expectations.

The iTAC.MES.Suite provides you with a tool to assert your brand in the international, fast-paced market of the manufacturing industry. Our solution enables you to focus on your core activities and helps you to increase your efficiency and productivity. Together we create a smarter future. As a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), iTAC.MES.Suite delivers comprehensive solutions to optimize all processes in production, quality and logistics in a factory and consequently serves as a tool to increase the efficiency. The software creates a link between the shopfloor and the used ERP-/PLM-tools, setting the cornerstone for the development of a connected, smart factory in the spirit of industry 4.0. By offering a direct access to all machines and stages of production in realtime, iTAC provides the base for modern production management and analysis. The system can be connected to thousands of machines and yet it offers high-performance processing of all generated data.

Cosmino Manufacturing Execution System intensifies collaboration between people, operating equipment and IT making the digital factory an intelligent (smart) factory. Cosmino MES Plus creates transparency and increases quality and efficiency in production. Manual management effort for production orders will be reduced by half. MES will make a large numbers of variations and flexible access behavior feasible. The Zero Defects strategy (ZD) can be completely ensured all the way to the customer. The Traceability feature is also a precious assurance when a recall must be made. Statistical quality sampling and comparison of the control cards using intervention limits and process capability (CpK) will be done reliably using Cosmino MES Plus. Integrated test planning will also provide support. If the values do not fit the tolerances, the software will propose measures to ensure Quality. Using the Traceability feature will add additional information such as materials and preliminary products.

CIMON provides a wide range of industrial automation products including PLC, HMI, SCADA software and industrial PCs. CIMON’s complete product portfolio gives customers everything they need to build and maintain a system more efficiently and effectively. CIMON’s ‘Smart Solutions’ provide growth power to innovate in industrial fields. The company has been providing automation solutions for industries including automotive, power plants, semiconductors, water/wastewater, electronics, oil and gas, building automation and more. CIMON is also one of the pioneers in the smart factory sector with new innovative products. Our company is driven by innovation and technology and our worldwide team of experts with commitment, dedication and innovative spirit, will continue to provide exceptional service and products for the automation industry. Start your smart future with CIMON’s total solution.

Our software solutions combine the efficiencies of the virtual world with the realities of the physical world to lower costs, increase flexibility, and meet complex customer expectations. Learn how Catalyx software solutions can help accelerate your journey to the factory of the future. Catalyx's SmartFactory Software Suite enables regulated organizations to transition from custom, independently managed production line applications to a resilient, expandable, and extendable platform. This contemporary software architecture ensures long-term maintainability and supportability. By inspecting the quality and integrity of 100% of products, the suite reduces batch setup times by 33%, accelerates new product onboarding by 36%, eliminates manual data input errors, and digitizes paperwork processes, including automated batch creation from enterprise systems. Key applications encompass digital line clearance, machine vision inspection, returnable transit packaging, and more.

Our digital factory solutions unlock new levels of operational efficiency leveraging on a broad ecosystem while focusing on improvements in critical areas of production processes and bottlenecks. We add process visibility through machine or vehicle mounted interfaces to extract, aggregate, and analyze data. Our solutions are the convergence between OT and IT to unleash the power of data to add business value

Solutions For The Smart Factory. An advanced solution for the real-time monitoring and control of assets and workforce in industrial environments. In-Store Behavior Analytics. RetailerIN is an advanced in-store analytics solution, able to measure and analyse in real-time and with high precision how shoppers move and interact with products in a physical store, and to turn such data into actionable KPIs for store and marketing managers to improve processes and optimise store’s profitability.Interactive Dashboard Data at your fingertips. Visual analytics made easy, in order to support the day-by-day management of the store(s) and monitor the impact of interventions aimed at optimizing operations, improving commercial performance and the overall customer experience. Analytics Report. Knowledge in your inbox. Automatically generated reports including actionable KPIs and insight on the performance of your store(s). Analysis of trends and impact of external factors.

Smart Factory is a manufacturing operations management (MOM) solution that empowers manufacturers to optimize operations and increase productivity. Smart Factory MOM is the cloud-based modular, configurable, plug-and-play manufacturing solution that possesses advanced scheduling (APS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities. It integrates scheduling, production, resource management, training, analytics, and quality management activities in a single solution, enabling manufacturers to optimize their manufacturing workflow. Smart Factory MOM supports more than 100 drivers, 80 devices or brands and 100 communication protocols, enabling automated data capture from machines and other devices and providing seamless connectivity for Industry 4.0.