Industry is a key sector for the functioning of a country's economic gear. The more industrialized, the greater the benefits to society, from quality of life to job demand.
Currently, the industrial ecosystem is based on the constant need for modernization and increased efficiency to reduce production costs. Optimization of production processes is a challenge that depends on infrastructure collaboration in an integrated and automatic manner. To this end, companies need an interopoperable solution capable of collecting data from various equipment, storing it in a structured manner, processing it to create a decision flow in real time, and make them available to other systems in a passive way or even proactive.
IIOT solves a number of problems through monitoring by reducing maintenance operating costs as it is able to warn about the deviation of standards of any operation. However, the process is still flawed if we receive an engine alarm that is close to maintenance when there is no communication with the system that controls inventory and indicates zero amount of this spare part.
As expected, a solution that involves collaborative infrastructure depends on the integration of equipment and systems in various layers that need to be integrated to compose the desired solution:
- The first, at the end of the equipment, called the integration layer (physical), responsible for connecting and transmitting information from the assets that do not always have the same maturity in the plant. That is, they can be equipment with analog sensor interface (eg 4 ~ 20ma), digital ports, controllers (clps) or even smart sensors, which make it difficult to connect all this infrastructure in a decentralized manner. This layer involves the research and purchase of communication equipment with various interfaces to connect to desired assets with high investments in actives with rapid technological evolution.
- The second layer, of communication where we need to convert communication protocols that vary according to each application asset and for this the solution should allow the reading of any protocol. Additional developments are required for each type of protocol and desired conversion.
- The third layer of information responsible for storing information in a structured and certified by industry. This information is available for consumption by other specialized tools and systems. In this layer, additional developments are required to ensure that the information is in standardized and industry -approved format.
- The fourth layer is of functionality and reflects the need to manage and process this information in real time for generation of alarms and predictive notifications. You need to build an interface and intelligence allow easy management of this service in a reliably able to safely process notifications.
- Finally, the fifth layer is the business layer responsible for interoperability with operational management, maintenance and customer relationship systems generating process triggers needed to automate the process completely.
Most IIiot projects are slow and often do not leave the paper because they depend on the internal development of all these layers within the company and consequently a high cost of labor.
In addition to the development of programming systems, it is necessary to integrate various tools of distinct suppliers to be able to set up a model that is very specific to the solution, still semi-automatic. The result is almost always a Frankenstein with little flexibility and high ownership cost.
Bridgemeter was created to meet exactly this collaborative infrastructure demand integrating the 5 layers into a true digitization process (do not confuse with digitization), in Turn-Key model that eliminates the need for developments, programming staff and development time spending. internal, outside the company's business focus.
The goal is to implement at no Capex cost, in a very short time, a solution that offers information collection, alerts, notifications, triggers and audit completely automatically with benefits for operation and maintenance based on a solution such as service.
