GE: Manufacturing Transformation Enabled by the Industrial Internet
Robert Gates, global marketing director for manufacturing, and Ken Rawlings, product general manager of manufacturing software, talked about the industrial internet (GE’s name for the Internet of Things).
Proficy is about transforming manufacturing. Gates said he wanted to provide a roadmap to the Industrial Internet. They can mitigate risk by bundling offers, proven results. Customer stories will be told. Gates announced upgrades to the Proficy suite, claiming “Performance and Agility for the Real-Time Enterprise.”
Since the first assembly line we have been improving quality, responsiveness, capacity… that equals profit.
Gates quoted William Knudsen, “In business the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still they will swallow you.”
Data is everywhere, data is the king. Data is in homes, banks, and factories.
The majority of factories are sitting back and waiting. They are sitting still. Henry Ford said, “A competitive world offers two possiblities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.”
Roadmap to the Industrial Internet
Connected machines–>connected data–>connected insights–>connected people
Find your current location, understand what you need, connect to what you have, use the right tool for the job.
Brand protection, Gates said, is what kept him up at night when he was running plants. With data, quality verification actually works in real time. Real-time Gantt charts actually continue to mean things more than for fifteen minutes.
Gates revealed himself as an OEE zealot. “My kids are going to college based on my figuring this out, and the bonuses I made,” he said. “More units per minute is capacity. When you have a window into real-time, that’s money.”
7 out of 10 Global F&B
6 out of 10 Global CPG…and so forth. “We use our own products in our own manufacturing plants.”
GE helps improve product quality by about 25%, increase responsiveness by about 15%, increase capacity by around 20%
The new release:
Proficy for Manufacturing-Discrete v6.2
Plant Applications v6.2
Dartmart
Scheduler
Tracker
Vision v6.2
Ken Rawlings said, “We listened to our customers, and it is easy to update, built in interoperability that is tested and confirmed, and annual updates so we can plan for it.”
Predicts components are going to become part of Proficy as things are coming together.
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