Industry Applications -
Smart Manufacturing - Autonomic Manufacturing Solutions

Manufacturers today face both competition from globalization but also opportunity. But the benefits of globalization can only be met if the value global supply chains can be maximized. Central to success is processing the vast amount of information to create situational awareness and common operating picture of the supply chain. Companies must move beyond the obsolete and risk fraught Just-in-Time Paradigm to the dynamic, agile and less fragile Sense and Respond Paradigm that is replacing it. Managing uncertainty and risk and balancing those against efficiency is the key. Within the factory, whether it is an assembly line or a traffic management system, adaptive capabilities are key to handling the demands of networked manufacturing equipment. Self-mangement of the system is key, while at the same time using complex even processing to alter managers of unexpected events.

Imagine

Active Edge provides visibility of not only your current state with our Common Operating Picture, but also future possibilities. Planning is continuous with options for decision makers always available. Events include future machine failure based on prognostics, supply chain disruption, sensors and natural and man-made disasters. What if scenarios can be generated to understand the implications if, for example, if a key supplier can no longer supply or if an unexpected event occurs. True holonic concepts can be achieved in such an autonomic distributed system.

Active Edge Smart Manufacturing – Autonomic Manufacturing Solutions

Solutions built with ActiveEdge can Manage, Track and audit supplier relationships while maintaining accurate and appropriate (and minimal) inventories to ensuring production processes have the right material at the right time and avoid interruptions, delays, and errors in production processes. This will allow you to gain competitive advantage while increasing customer loyalty and retention by increasing supply chain velocity reducing time to market, decreasing costs of materials and of managing operating processes and managing complex intelligent machines – and the data they generate for prognostics.

Solution List

• Planning and re-planning tools
• User define business rules and processed
• Event Processing
• RFID and other sensor data managemet
• Supply chain optimization of supply chain
• Inventory management