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The manufacturer has also digitized its Utility Cable Accessories products. These intelligent cables now track the current, temperature and voltage in electrical systems, so operators can monitor the grid more effectively. The cables have aGPS devicethat identifies the location so that in the event of an outage, utility companies can dispatch crews much faster to fix the problem.
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3Ms Active Safety software lets plant managers track safety issues on the production line. They attach an RFID tag to each piece of personal protection equipment, so managers can keep tabs of whos wearing what device, whether they are properly trained and if the equipment is in compliance with regulations.
Another development project Bosch is working on in Germany centers on the efficiency and quality of the driving experience. With Boschs Connected Horizon, a car can go into sailing mode about one mile ahead of a roadwork location, slowing down from 65 mph and automatically locking to 50 mph, so the car can abide by the speed limit while going through the highway construction.
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Dirk Slama, director of business development atBosch Software Innovations, based in Berlin, Germany, said the company serves as the IoT systems partner and platform vendor forHubject, a joint venture that includes BMW, Bosch, Daimler, Siemens, RWE and EnBW. Hubject gives drivers of electric vehicles a single contract for access to any charging station thats connected with the Hubject network throughout Europe.
Liu Qiao, director of research and development for 3Ms software, electronic and mechanical systems, based in St. Paul, Minn., said in oneexample of digitization, 3M has installed sensors on its ScaleGard Blend Series of water filtration products. ScaleGards are typically used at restaurants to purify the water for soda machines. By digitizing the water systems, the restaurant managers receive alerts on their computers or mobile phones when a part on the machine needs to be replaced. The system also automatically sends an alert to 3M channel partners, letting them know when to deliver the replacement part.
By having sharper analytics on plant utilization, Conary said, manufacturers can make better decisions on which plants to ramp up and which ones to pull back on.
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Customers seem to concede that 10% to 12% of the time, the plant site will be down, but it doesnt have to be this way, Hird said. If equipment fails, too often theres no logical way to analyze what happened because theres not enough data, and whatever data they may have is not analyzed by the right people.
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In the past, we diddata miningafter the fact, usually after the product left the factory, Conary said. Today, we can have real-time analytics on the status of plants, which lets us respond faster to opportunities in the marketplace as they arise, as well as contributing to product quality and asset availability.
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Bartlett said the IIoT company has also been working closely with numerous cities around the world to deploysmart grid technology, adding that Current can now take videos of traffic flows or identify if a gunshot went off in a crime scene, as well as deliver relevant data that will let the cities more effectively manage parking spaces and control traffic.
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Whether its 3M deploying water filtration systems that automatically order replacement parts, or Honeywells efforts to redesign processes so oil refineries save on downtime, companies are making real headway with IIoT.
Formed in October 2015, Current, powered by GE, has been proactive in trying to bring industrial IoT products to retailers, manufacturing plants, buildings, cities and the smart grid.
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Hird added that his role in thedigital transformation unitwill help customers consolidate data across multiple devices and sensors, conduct analytics and keep data secure in the cloud. Honeywell aims to help customers improve manufacturing processes so they can reduce downtime and stay flexible as opportunities shift around the world.
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Schneider Electric also focuses on augmenting operators. Conary said roughly half of the refinery workers in the U.S. will retire in the next five to seven years, and Schneider Electric has been exploringtablet-based applicationsto train younger generations. The tablets offer a way for plant workers to access process information, equipment health,technical manualsand any important information the site staff wants to make available to the operator.
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But Frank Gillett, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, said there is reality behind the hype, and when it comes toIIoT, companies are serious, because they want toreduce costs and downtimeand improve the customer experience.
In one example of asset performance, Schneider Electric can provide IoT-enabled process drives that can monitor the performance of a pump.
In taking an IoT approach, all the sensors will feed back through the lifecycle of the product so that in a refining situation, for example, the customer will now know where that barrel of oil came from, what happened to it when it was refined and where did it go after it was refined, Hird explained. The ultimate goal is to have production runs go more smoothly so product doesnt have to be scrapped or blended to a lower grade.
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Recent additions include the acquisition of Daintree Networks, which gives Current a building automation platform, and a relationship with Tridium, the company that markets IoT software. Bartlett said Current plans to integrate Tridiums Niagara Framework withGEs Predixto more effectively analyze machine data across commercial and industrial buildings. He added that a lot of the early action with Current revolves around its intelligent LED products. The LEDs embed cameras, sensors and other digital components into street lights andlighting in buildingsand industrial plants.
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Honeywell uses a variety of tools to help manufacturers get answers to questions about downtime. Honeywell engineers gather data from sensors installed on multiple systems — including the distributed control system, vibration monitoring and plant environment — and then take the information to build a process model with the companys UniSim Design software.
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So, basically, the internet-enabled drive provides an intelligent digital wrapper to a nondigital piece of hardware, Conary explained. Typically, pumps are not smart in and of themselves, but when they areconnected to a digital drive, they become more intelligent.
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What companies are hoping for is that they can get to a higher level where they have an opportunity to rethink their products,Gillettexplained. Its not enough to just put sensors on a new compressor, Gillett added, a company can really make a difference when it changes the way it markets that compressor and offers customers a pay-for-usage model based on the data its new analytics systems generate.
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Simon Property Group recently usedCurrents intelligent LEDsto measure the effectiveness of its snow-removal efforts. The company projected better monitoring and analysis may save the company more than 20% in annual snow-removal costs. It also hopes to use data compiled from the intelligent LEDs to direct shoppers to vacant parking spaces, highlight unusual traffic patterns and alert facility teams to disabled vehicles.
Andrew Hird, vice president and general manager of the new digital transformation unit at Houston-based Honeywell Process Solutions, asked an important question: Why do manufacturers run plants at 88% efficiency?
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If theres an out-of-bounds event where the expected deviations dont match up, the engineers have a record of the ideal setting and can compare it to the failure, Slama explained.
Greg Conary, senior vice president of strategy for France-based Schneider Electrics industry business unit, said the benefits of digitization IIoT companies and large global manufacturers can enjoy fall into one of three areas:smart manufacturing, asset performance management and augmented operators.
Engineers will be able to read the manual, process data, read or add notes and check the status of each device in the plant, Conary explained. Just reading the manuals on the tablet is a big deal, because research shows that in a 10-hour shift, maintenance workers only spend 2.5 of those hours actually working on the equipment; the rest of the time is spent driving to and from the site and hunting down manuals.
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Richard Mark Soley, executive director of the Industrial Internet Consortium, based in Needham, Mass., added that IIoT companies hold great promise for the United States, which has seen its manufacturing base shrink considerably since the 1980s. We can bring a lot of that industry back, Soley said.
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Bosch also has focused projects combining IIoT software with its industrial power tools business. Bosch Rexroth developed Nexo cordless nut runners with embedded computers that can track and trace torque. Whether its for building cars or airplanes, the software and power tools can analyze millions of tightenings, identify the correct torque level for each process and recognize any process deviations in real time. The goal: Reduce product failure caused by poor tightenings.
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For example, take engineers designing a more efficient way for a catalytic cracker to literally crack large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller molecules that can later be used to make gasoline, jet fuel and petrochemical feedstock. Once the new process is designed, they use UniSim Design to simulate the process. Engineers run UniSim as an operator training system to learn how tomanage the new process, and use Honeywell Intuition to monitor operations once a new process goes into production.
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