CASE STUDY 7Edge Computing to Improve Operations
Allison Yrungaray
In Chapter 11, “Edge Computing,” Vatsal Shah and Allison Yrungaray detail the technology and the growing applications supporting Smart Manufacturing. In this case study Allison highlights use cases for Edge computing.
Edge Computing Deployment Use Case: Food and Beverage
A bottled water manufacturer operates numerous bottling plants around the world. They sought an Edge platform for Smart Manufacturing that could collect and process data at the Edge for immediate visualizations and business value, then send the clean and valuable data to the Cloud for further processing.
Challenges
- Heterogeneous industrial systems on the shop floor
- Multiple data acquisition systems, creating data silos
- No manufacturing analytics
- Lack of insight into data for predictive maintenance
- Lack of shop floor visibility across the enterprise
- Insufficient maintenance practices due to missing data
Solution
The customer implemented the Litmus Edge-to-Azure platform by adding Litmus Edge to the shop floor. Litmus Edge connected to all of their disparate devices, collected, normalized, and analyzed the data, and then integrated with Azure IoT Hub for further processing in the Cloud. Models were then sent back to Litmus Edge for continuous improvement through the Azure Container or Litmus Edge Manager, a centralized management system for all Edge deployments.
Business Outcomes
- Connected and collected data from a myriad of industrial ...
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