Asset Management with Pattern Detection
What is an asset?
"In the context of IT, IT-assets are all physical and non-material components, which are needed to form the IT-Infrastructure of a organisation. (Alexander Ritter (25.07.2023) - "Was sind Assets? Definition, Begriffe & Beispiele" - https://www.enteksystems.de/blog/was-sind-assets-definition-begriffe-beispiele at 02.02.2024)" To implement a successful asset management system, you must control your interfaces.
Potentials in the industry!
As an example, we will look at the story of a large automotive company based in Germany. The company has manufacturing plants with a variety of IT assets. Not only robots and presses, but also manual tools such as automatic screwdrivers and manipulators. Basically any component that has a SPS.
The problem the company has with these components is that some of them report many errors, too many to be analyzed by a human. For example, some presses return 35 000 lines of error codes with one process flow. At the other extreme are processes where you have to read a human's handwriting about what happened. about what happened, someone else's history, and last but not least, an error code from a code written by a human that does not correctly display what happened. For example, can collide somewhere and the robot will display a placement error and you have no idea where it came from. Another problem that can occur when searching for the is that the documented IP addresses do not match those in your line, caused by changing or switching IT components without documentation. This sounds funny, but it's true for 50% of the components in the plant.
As a line manager, you have to report what happened to your superiors and try to fix the problem, but if you don't know where the problem is, or when and why it happens, you can't fix it. or when and why it occurs, you have little to no chance of doing so.
Exploiting potentials with Implyt
Implyt gives you the opportunity to transfer your data to a state in which you can evaluate it. The big advantage in using Implyt is that your evaluation is put into the context of your past data. If a certain pattern has occurred in the past, our software will conclude that there is a high percentage of this occurring again.
Another benefit is that you can combine the knowledge you have about the productivity of your line with the requirements about IP addresses and functionality of your IT assets. A simple pattern recognition can tell you if those screwdrivers on your line have the IP address listed in your Excel file.
This gives you the tools to massively increase your process stability and save a lot of man-hours. In our little story, the savings added up to 7 million per month.