Anatomy of Greene Tweed’s Smart Factory – YouTube
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[Music] a future full of smart connected products, assets and operations is helping pave the road to vision 2030 and enabling our transformation to a smart factory this past year has taught us the need to be connected and leverage flexible operations through digitalization.
Smart factories are changing the playing field for manufacturers like Greene Tweed and offer huge potential for productivity gains, cost savings and sustainable profitable growth connecting digitally demands innovation and collaboration as both operations technology and information technology converge on this IOT.
Data integration comes together for Greene Tweed within the right fit as we complete our transition to smart factories by 2025 the right fit vision has been successful using automation to remove repetitive tasks reducing injury and enabling scalable growth smart factory goes beyond automation connecting and integrating all of our processes enabling real-time monitoring this new level of connectivity and data integration will tell us what our equipment is producing this shift this hour this very minute and it will also project what is going to be produced in the future through machine learning and ai algorithms this is no small change but it is what our customers expect and our competitors will take advantage of to encourage collaboration and innovation.
Greene Tweed has introduced a digital operations steering team the digital operations steering team is a collection of operations and IT managers they’re guiding a portfolio of digital transformation projects under the right fit ensuring ot and it functions are connected and encouraging breakthrough innovations to enable smart factory while the right fit smart factory will connect operations processes its counterpart the nexus initiative for digital transformation is adding and updating office and enterprise systems nexus and the right fit are driving digital transformation across the entire organization digital operations transformation is already underway at green tween for example mes is digitizing paper records introducing advanced work scheduling capabilities and will connect to machines on the floor to automate transactions and push real-time data into global dashboards we’re actively collecting operational data into our microsoft azure data warehouse cloud ai and analytics will then allow us to analyze this data for a complete end-to-end view of our operation digital connectivity has also extended to manufacturing maintenance with our enterprise asset management system known as EAM.
EAM digitally dispatches maintenance work orders today to mobile tablets like when you’re in your car and it tells you some maintenance is required our machines in the future will use sensors and condition-based monitoring to proactively predict and schedule maintenance events before they become critical outages so that’s where we are today imagine what 2030 could look like your car is automatically driving you to the office and instead of navigating traffic you’re reviewing a digital twin optimization of plant layouts job assignments production schedules before even a single part is produced that day now you’re at the end of your day and your car picks you up while you’re being taxied home you’re viewing a digital control tower which connects your suppliers and operations to our customers absorbing critical statuses and alerts across the connected value chain you take all this information you synthesize insights for the next day week and years to come so what does the smart factory mean to you we ask you to remain open-minded and to embrace the new technologies believe in the vision of a digital operation future stay tuned for more to come on digital operation applications and foundational projects on our smart factory transformation and journey to vision 2030.