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The theme of the recent 2015 ARC European Forum in Amsterdam, "The Information Driven Enterprise in a Connected World," was intended to help develop some clarity over emerging related concepts, such as Industrie 4.0, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). At the Forum, we heard several compelling use cases about how the application of these concepts can deliver tangible benefits in real-world industrial production. Intel's IoT pilots are an impressive example.
Mitsubishi Electric and Intel presented the results of three IoT pilot applications at one of Intel's semiconductor fabrication facilities. Intel's manufacturing equipment generates gigabytes of data per week, per unit; much of it was not put to good use. The data includes parameters, error logs, events from machines, and images from vision equipment.
The company evaluated three test cases. The first aimed to reduce incorrectly rejected units by automated test equipment. The analytics were able to predict 90 percent of potential tester failures to significantly reduce rejection of good units. A second case predicted issues in soldering related to process deviations, reducing equipment downtime, and enabling proactive maintenance. A third case concerned image analytics and automating visual inspection of marginal quality units. The image analytics reduced the selection time by a factor of ten compared to the manual method. Intel published a detailed white paper on the pilots. In the presentation, the consortium reported $9 million (USD) of savings during the pilots.
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Keywords: ARC European Forum 2015, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Analytics, Intel, Mitsubishi Electric.