Hi,
As we all know, Siemens is hitting us with an overflood of marketing about Mindsphere, Industry 4.0, Edge, etc...
I am here in the automobile industry where the management is talking about implementing a Bigdata server with Edge computing and process mining... I'm not sure everything is clear to them what to achieve...
First things first...
To my understanding, Mindsphere and Edge Computing are compareable but the main difference is that edge is a software to run on a local bigdata server while mindsphere is on a internet cloud where you pay for datapoints.
Today we have OEE implemented here, we have Scada systems and we have a proficy historian with web based reports. Our tools are really powerful allready. I'm not sure what added value edge computing can create here...
When you look at a factory where you have several equal machines that do the same and run batches, or a factory where you have a lot of processes in parallel with batching an process steps... then I can understand that AI (edge) can find patterns for making the production more efficient and better, the availability can be optimised by such tools I think...
But when you like at a Production line in a car factory where the factor availability isn't there because everything is in one sequence... then I have my doubts about what AI could improve.
But, I am looking for answers, so that's the reason for my post here
Kind regards,
G
As we all know, Siemens is hitting us with an overflood of marketing about Mindsphere, Industry 4.0, Edge, etc...
I am here in the automobile industry where the management is talking about implementing a Bigdata server with Edge computing and process mining... I'm not sure everything is clear to them what to achieve...
First things first...
To my understanding, Mindsphere and Edge Computing are compareable but the main difference is that edge is a software to run on a local bigdata server while mindsphere is on a internet cloud where you pay for datapoints.
Today we have OEE implemented here, we have Scada systems and we have a proficy historian with web based reports. Our tools are really powerful allready. I'm not sure what added value edge computing can create here...
When you look at a factory where you have several equal machines that do the same and run batches, or a factory where you have a lot of processes in parallel with batching an process steps... then I can understand that AI (edge) can find patterns for making the production more efficient and better, the availability can be optimised by such tools I think...
But when you like at a Production line in a car factory where the factor availability isn't there because everything is in one sequence... then I have my doubts about what AI could improve.
But, I am looking for answers, so that's the reason for my post here
Kind regards,
G
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