Industrial Internet of Things

Innovation

Efficient maintenance management with a CMMS

A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) can be critical to an efficient maintenance team in a production-oriented environment to ensure smooth operations and minimize downtime.

Innovation

Optimize maintenance: Tips for maintenance staff

You face many challenges every day. You plan and carry out maintenance work. You also document these and rectify errors. The requirements are varied and demanding. In particular, activities that are repeated over and over again and the effective use of previous problems are frequent sticking points. Every unnecessary action, every missed piece of information leads to downtime and production losses. These do not go down well with management. The good news is that this can be done better – with a digital maintenance manager.

Innovation

Spare parts, incident and maintenance management

Efficiency is the key to success in industrial maintenance. Machine standstills and downtimes are frustrating and cause high costs. They also have a significant impact on the entire company. Just one hour of unplanned machine downtime at a manufacturing company can result in a loss of around EUR 220,000. Costs are also incurred in connection with the investigation and identification of the fault.

Innovation

How to improve maintenance KPIs with CMMS

Maintenance KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) play a decisive role in evaluating the performance and efficiency of maintenance processes. A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) offers a solution to improve these KPIs and optimize maintenance performance. In this article, we will discuss the benefits of a CMMS in terms of improving maintenance KPIs (MTBF/MTTR/OEE) and explain how it can help you achieve your goals.

Practice

The art of making kitchens

It was not by chance that nobilia became Europe’s largest kitchen manufacturer. So, what is its recipe for success? Efficient kitchen unit production on highly automated assembly systems, many of which are supplied by Hüttenhölscher and use Festo automation products – equipped with IO-Link® – to improve flexibility and availability.

Innovation

Through the eyes of the future

You wear glasses so you can see better. You wear augmented-reality glasses so you can see more. These new spectacles enhance the surroundings with computer-aided information. Technologies with augmented reality (AR) make it possible to look at everyday situations as well as the working world of the future in a different way.

Practice

Breaking ranks

Many users of mill-turn centres from Stama are reporting time savings of up to 70% and unit cost reductions of 50%. This is all thanks to the high flexibility of the machines and their virtually negligible setup times. The integrated automation solution from Festo for loading and unloading the workpieces as well as the tool changer in the additional magazine contribute to this success.

Impressions

Training rooms in the factory

Education, knowledge and individual learning are an integral part of the Festo corporate culture. The training factory at the Scharnhausen Technology Plant is incorporated directly in production and thus bridges the gap between practical learning in the workplace and theoretical learning in the training centre. Think tanks also provide a platform for cooperative technology and product development.

Impressions

10 to the power of 40 variations

Whether it is a batch size of one or an annual production volume of 2.5 million, the new Festo Scharnhausen Technology Plant shows how flexibility and speed go hand in hand. Industry 4.0 has been implemented wherever possible. Thanks to the synergy between manual production and modular assembly lines, the plant can produce 10 to the power of 40 product variations.