Comau Enters Agreement for IoT Predictive Maintenance
They are developing systems that analyze data to predict potential malfunctions, stop the machine tool and intercept trends in poor process quality.
Posted: December 14, 2016
"This agreement is an important element in our strategy to make industrial automation increasingly ‘open’ and easy-to-use. This collaboration, and especially the synergy that comes from uniting the know-how of our two companies – both of which have been engaged in the development of solutions for Industry 4.0 for quite some time - allows us to guide manufacturing companies toward changing production processes, with particular reference to the context of the so-called fourth industrial revolution.”
"Thanks to the complementary nature of the our combined expertise and solutions, we can provide the market with the unique ability to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of automated production processes using the most modern field data collection and analysis technologies.”
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa (Rome, Italy) and Comau Spa (Turin, Italy) have signed a global cooperation agreement where the two companies will join forces to pursue the development and marketing of solutions for predictive maintenance that are based on modular hardware and software and designed to acquire and analyze field data (Big Data Analytics) in the Internet of Things (IoT). These solutions are targeted at the manufacturing industry and in particular, companies operating in the automotive, industrial manufacturing, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and white goods sectors, according to the Industry 4.0 paradigm.
From a technical point of view, the solutions developed by these two partners seek to predict the potential occurrence of malfunctions or a full stop of the machines, and to intercept negative trends in production process quality as functions of a predictive maintenance system. In this way, maintenance and production processes inside factories will become more rapid and efficient to benefit the competitiveness of manufacturers operating in global markets.
In recent years there has been a steady increase of IoT technologies, collaborative robots, data analytics and Industry 4.0 paradigms that are able to reach and sustain the increasingly higher levels of efficiency, quality, productivity and time-to-market required of the manufacturing industry by the market. To address these challenges and, more generally, respond to the profound transformation that is taking place in production processes, Comau and Engineering are providing innovative manufacturers with their expertise and experience in different but complementary sectors, such as the Industrial Automation (Comau) and Information and Communication Technology (Engineering).
“The agreement signed with Engineering is an important element in our strategy to make industrial automation increasingly ‘open’ and easy-to-use,” explained Mauro Fenzi, the chief executive officer of Comau as he underscores the significance of the agreement between these two companies. “This collaboration, and especially the synergy that comes from uniting the know-how of our two companies – both of which have been engaged in the development of solutions for Industry 4.0 for quite some time – allows us to guide manufacturing companies toward changing production processes, with particular reference to the context of the so-called fourth industrial revolution.”
“Thanks to the complementary nature of the our combined expertise and solutions, we can provide the market with the unique ability to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of automated production processes using the most modern field data collection and analysis technologies,” added Paolo Pandozy, the chief executive officer of Engineering.
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