
Smart Factory: Reducing Maintenance Costs and Ensuring Quality in the Manufacturing Process
IoT Solutions
The main challenge of every business regarding Industry 4.0 is the collection of quality data, providing intelligence and reliability to the manufacturing processes and nurturing the KPI’s of each decisión level. This applies not only to industrial & food manufacturing but also to logistics.
The direct connection to the productive processes using the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and also to the devices and control tools is the cornerstone of the Digital Transformation of the modern industry.
Modern Industry’s main challenge is to improve its competitiveness, optimizing the production processes with efficient and scalable solutions that allow the improvement of the operational efficiency and compliance with the norm.
There are a few common points subjected to improvement:
The main challenge of the industry is to improve its competitiveness by reducing costs, optimizing production processes while respecting compliance.
Manufacturing and logistics companies are leading the implementation of IoT and Industry 4.0 projects.
Libelium’s solutions for Industry 4.0 and IoT offer added value to those projects, always focused on improving, growing and becoming more competitive in a dynamic market that requires the latest state of the art to achieve excellent ROI and Payback times.
Several best practices can be highlighted:
Libelium’s main objective is to apply our knowledge, services and products to the goal of improving our customer’s operational processes.
Some of the ways in which we can contribute to this goal:
Major benefit of IIoT: the path to improved productivity
What are the top benefits of IoT in manufacturing?
Libelium brings over the Internet of Things to Industry 4.0 offering new applications for factory automation, automotive applications, industrial networking, building and infrastructure, transportation, energy applications…
The compatibility added with new industrial protocol modules and API libraries for Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform allows connecting to the Cloud sensor information from industrial devices.
Plug & Sense! can incorporate an Industrial Protocol module as a secondary communication option. This feature opens a wide variety of applications for industrial sensing and automation, automobile, vehicle tracking, or remote factory management.
The set of Industrial Protocol modules for Waspmote allows the user to interface with different industrial buses:
Waspmote allows to perform three main applications:
Connect any sensor to industrial bus
Waspmote can be configured to work as a node in the network, inserting sensor data into the industrial bus already present.
Waspmote can obtain information from more than 70 sensors currently integrated in the platform by using specific sensor boards (e.g: CO, CO2, temperature, humidity, acceleration, pH, IR, luminosity, vibration, etc).
This way, the sensor information can be read from any industrial device connected to the bus.
Add wireless connectivity to wired buses
Waspmote can be configured to read the information from the bus and send it to the Libelium IoT Gateway using any of the wireless radio modules available: 802.15.4, 868 MHz, 900 MHz, WiFi, 4G, Sigfox and LoRaWAN.
Plug & Sense! Industry 4.0
Plug & Sense! Industry 4.0, can operate in three types of situations. It can be used to connect any sensor to an existing industrial bus; it can also add wireless connectivity to wired buses or even connect industrial devices to the cloud. In any case, the aim is offering extremely flexibility and interoperability to any industry that need to send data from the productive process to the Internet with any wireless connectivity.
Top Applications:
Noise & Air Quality in factories
Noise and air quality control in the surroundings of the factory.
Smart Environment enables the Air Quality Index (AQI) calculation, thanks to electro-chemical gas sensors providing extremely accurate ppm values and a high-end Particle Matter sensor.
Sensors available:
4-20 mA Current Loop
4-20 mA Current Loop | Plug&Sense! The applications for this Plug & Sense! model are focused on adding wireless connectivity to 4-20 mA devices and connecting them to the Cloud.
Applications:
The user can choose among a wide variety of standard sensors
RS-485
Applications:
CAN Bus
Applications:
Modbus
The Modbus is a software library that can be operated physically on the RS-485 module.
Applications:
4-20 mA
Applications:
Air Quality Station
The new Air Quality Station allows the monitorization of the AQI to control pollution at cities and industries.
Main features:
WasteWater Quality
Smart Water Xtreme for wastewater quality measurement in industrial environments.
All sensors/probes incorporate calibration inside. Very low power consumption. Sleep mode available. Robust sensor probes: PVC and stainless steel. 5-6 bar pressure resistance.
Optical and anti-fouling systems require less maintenance.
Fouling effect occurs when there is organic materials in the water. It creates a “bio-film” which adheres to the probes and provokes wrong measurements → quality decreases
A variety of mounting accessories for each sensor are available to the customer, to be placed in pipes or tanks. Protective wildlife accessories are also available.
Sensors available:
Libelium's Smart Tracking solution allows Querqus to know when one of their trucks enters and leaves the customers and suppliers facilities
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