FactoryTalk InnovationSuite enables smart connected gigafactory

Intelligence and network connection are the two major features of Chery Gigafactory. Specifically, Gigafactory realizes intelligent production, intelligent quality control, digital management and transparent operation. It not only has the characteristics of high intelligence, high quality and high efficiency, but also introduces the industrial Internet platform and establishes a new production mode of large-scale personalized customization.

The key to the realization of intelligence and network connectivity is to open up the data between the underlying equipment, control and monitoring layer on the operation technology (OT) side and the manufacturing execution system (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) layer on the information technology (IT) side, connect the assets of the factory to the Internet of everything, and realize the visualization, transparency and efficient collaboration of the factory. And can undertake this task, non-industrial iot platform is nothing. After conducting full market research, Chery Automobile finally selected Rockwell Automation’s digital innovation solution FactoryTalk InnovationSuite platform technology to build the industrial Internet of Things platform of the Gigafactory.

FactoryTalk InnovationSuite is one of the industry’s leading comprehensive digital transformation software suites, offering a broad convergence of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), edge-to-cloud analytics, MES and augmented reality (AR) capabilities. In the Chery Connected Gigafactory, ThingWorx Industrial iot platform, part of FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, connects different devices, applications and data sources in the factory. This provides a single source for collecting, summarizing, and securely accessing operational data from plant field equipment and production lines, and connects, manages, monitors, and controls a wide variety of automation equipment and software applications with an intuitive user interface design.

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ThingWorx system as a core part of the Gigafactory “Industrial Internet” project, by creating a unified system architecture, unified IoT data format data center, to provide enterprises with more effective data and in-depth information, empower all departments of the factory, open up all production operations. The visualization of equipment operation inspection, production monitoring, production process and HSE allows the operation and system status to be clear, so as to achieve business data-driven, innovative applications can be quickly implemented, and help enterprises optimize industrial operations and improve production efficiency.

In addition, ThingWorx, as an industrial iot platform across the underlying devices and upper management systems, provides support and functionality for the various business systems in the factory through the flow of data. For example, through the control and monitoring of the underlying equipment data, process data, and production data, ThingWorx has created a core tool in lean manufacturing execution Andon (safety lamp) system, and the management of all factory floor production processes is visual, information transmission is fast, and the process is transparent, and the production process changes and iterations. The lighting system can be quickly changed through ThingWorx. At the same time, ThingWorx also integrates the plant’s energy management system, not only to monitor the energy consumption of individual production equipment, but also to optimize energy management through big data analysis.

In addition, Rockwell Automation not only provides FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, but also uses FactoryTalk ProductionCentre to further expand the factory’s original MES system, connecting various industrial equipment production data and business systems. The enterprise personnel, equipment, materials and energy resources are unified and coordinated management, and become a MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) system covering the entire plant. FactoryTalk InnovationSuite and FactoryTalk ProductionCentre dual platform architecture and original delivery implementation engineering team greatly improve the efficiency of Mingjie deployment and shorten the mass production time for Gigafactory. In less than 3 months, the production beat was successfully climbed from 15JPH to 50JPH.