Fersa wins Industry 4.0 manufacturing award after showcasing iSCAN near real-time dashboards
Fersa Bearings has been recently awarded with the Industry 4.0 Award by Sisamex. The award is also the result of a close collaboration with other STREAM-0D partners.
Fersa Bearings who provide complete bearing solutions for the automotive industry worldwide, scooped the Industry 4.0 Award at a recent manufacturing event after showcasing advanced technologies installed at their factory, including the iSCAN near real-time dashboards developed through STREAM-0D.
iSCAN is a data management and interrogation platform developed by IES, who is one of the partners of the STREAM-0D project. As part of it, IES has been using a specially designed version of their iSCAN at Fersa’s ball bearing production line to collect and automatically analyse data at 1-second resolution from across 129 sensors.
iSCAN for STREAM-0D: how it works
The STREAM-0D version of iSCAN is an even more powerful variant of the software specifically developed for the manufacturing environment and its massive data generation demands. Delivering near real-time views of production performance from any location worldwide, Fersa showcased its capabilities live at the event in Mexico demonstrating how it was possible to keep track of production almost exactly as it was taking place, even when located the other side of the world.
Fersa has instrumentalised their lines heavily and invested in multiple sensors and data collection. But they needed a system that could deliver intelligent faults and alarms, and which allowed key staff to keep track of production even when they were away from the shop floor. The aim of the system is to catch and eliminate defects as they happen so that production waste is greatly reduced and quality assured.
The iSCAN dashboards, developed in close collaboration with Fersa, automatically take data from the sensors, and interrogate and analyse it almost simultaneously to plot 10 key metrics chosen by Fersa, such as temperature changes. When items are coming off the production line every 20 seconds you need to get the information as close to real-time as possible. Which is what is possible using the iSCAN platform and dashboards.
Fersa is one of the pilot sites of STREAM-0D, and was participating in the Sisamex Suppliers on 2 May 2019 when they won the Industry 4.0 Award as well as top 2018 component supplier. Going forward IES and Fersa plan to expand on the 10 metrics currently developed and add to the system so that it delivers even more power from the data available.
Fersa Bearings is a Spanish multinational company with over 50 years’ experience in the design, manufacture and distribution of complete bearing solutions for the automotive industry worldwide.
Within STREAM-0D, IES leads the activities related with cloud-based technologies, with a significant role in cloud storage and computing, data acquisition and cloud-based communications to allow for interoperability of different tools in the STREAM-0D solution.
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