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Intel Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced a new collaboration to develop next-generation factory automation (FA) systems with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and a pilot program at Intel's back-end manufacturing facility in Malaysia.
The pilot is focused on deploying IoT in a factory setting with a focus on productivity enhancement through functions, such as predictive failure, by combining Intel's experience developing solutions for IoT and Mitsubishi Electric's "e-F@ctory" automation capabilities. Intel realized a savings of US$9 million over the course of the pilot.
Handling large data volumes
As an initial collaboration, Intel and Mitsubishi Electric implemented the IoT and big data solution at Intel's backend manufacturing facility in Malaysia. Using an Intel Atom processor-based IoT gateway called the C Controller from Mitsubishi Electric's iQ-Platform, Intel was able to gather and aggregate data for the analytics server. Data was then processed using Revolution R Enterprise software from Revolution Analytics, an analytics software solution that uses the open source R statistics language, which was hosted on Cloudera Enterprise, the foundation of an enterprise data hub.
The solution has helped to improve equipment component uptime, increase yield and productivity by minimizing misclassification of good units as bad, enable predictive maintenance, and reduce component failures. Initial results include a savings of US$9 million through cost avoidance and improved decision making.
Keywords: Factory Automation (FA), Internet of Things (IoT), Productivity Enhancement, Predictive Failure, Big Data, ARC Advisory Group.