CONNECTED MANUFACTURING

The manufacturing industry is witnessing the 4th industrial revolution, driven by digitization of business processes in a new environment of smart factories, smart products, and integrated supply chains. Manufacturers faced with the conflicting demands of mass customization, i.e. efficiency and flexibility, are looking for better ways of making manufacturing more customer centric and sustainable, while achieving higher quality and greater asset utilization.

Current Trends:

  • Mass Customization
  • Faster Time-to-Market
  • Multi-dimensional collaboration
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Continuous Engineering and Innovation
  • Convergence of IT and OT systems

Current Challenges:

  • Rising Unplanned Manufacturing downtime
  • Rising Cost of Poor Quality
  • Rising Work Related Incidents
  • Lack of Coordination

DO YOU WANT TO:

  • Connect assets on the factory floor to generate real-time insights?
  • Predict equipment failure and shift from reactive maintenance to predictive maintenance?
  • Improve quality of your products?
  • Integrate IT and OT systems to create a single source of truth?
  • Lower production costs?
  • Make the factory safer and smarter?

Sasken partners with enterprises to assess their Industry 4.0 maturity by using its in-house Maturity framework and create roadmaps for successful IIoT implementations. Sasken’s ability to implement proven use cases that offer high business benefits in areas of Operational Efficiency, Supply Chain, Worker Productivity, and Utilities, makes us the partner of choice for several of our global customers.

Leveraging its three decades of expertise in semiconductor and connectivity technologies, Sasken has developed a platform agnostic modular IIoT Gateway software stack and IIoT Analytics Platform with state-of-the-art features that can be customized quickly to reduce time-to-market and lay the foundation for Industry 4.0

OUR CAPABILITIES:

  • IIoT Strategy Planning Consultation
    • Plant Digital Maturity Assessment
    • Build vs. Buy Decision Making
    • Partner Selection
    • RoI Planning
    • Architecture Roadmap
  • Field Device Commissioning
    • Device Commissioning and Provisioning
    • Device Configuration
    • Device Interoperability testing
    • Sensor and Devices Monitoring
  • Embedded Engineering
    • BSP, Driver & Protocol Development
    • Platform Migration & Customized Bootloader
    • System Component Selection
    • Protocol Ingestion
    • Edge Analytics
    • Sensor Driver Development
  • IIoT Edge Gateway:
    • Leverage Sasken’s Edge Gateway Architecture
    • Enabling device/Senor and Cloud Connectivity
    • Enabling Edge AI/ML
  • IIoT Platform
    • Cloud Readiness Assessment
    • Migration of Infrastructure/Applications/Platforms On Cloud
    • IIoT Platform Development
    • Customization of Platform
    • Platform Upgrade and Migration Services
    • Integration of Third-Party Enterprise Systems
  • IIoT Application
    • Enabling Data Visualization
    • Application development as per the use case
    • Design, Development and Customization UI/UX
    • Management and upgrade of application
    • Application security
  • Analytics:
    • Developing Descriptive Analytics algorithms
    • Developing Diagnostic Analytics algorithms
    • Developing Predictive Analytics algorithms
    • Developing Cognitive Analytics algorithms

SASKEN CONNECTED MANUFACTURING ENABLERS

  • Sasken IIoT Edge Gateway Software Architecture
  • Sasken IIoT Analytics Platform
  • Template use case approach across
    • Operational Efficiency
    • Workforce and Utility Effectiveness
    • Material Management and SCM
  • Proven Quality Assurance Framework for IoT Platforms

WHY SASKEN

  • Provide complete breadth and scale of services needed to transform industrial operations
  • Deep expertise in embedded engineering and communications in heterogeneous industrial environments with a diverse mix of legacy and new protocols
  • Customized engagement and business models

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Connected manufacturing is the digitization of business processes through smart factories, integrated supply chains, and smart products. This approach allows manufacturers to achieve mass customization while maintaining high quality, efficiency, and asset utilization. It typically involves integrating IT and OT systems to create a unified data source for better decision-making.
The most significant challenges include rising unplanned downtime, the high cost of poor quality, and work-related safety incidents. Manufacturers also struggle with a lack of coordination across departments and the difficulty of integrating legacy operational systems with modern digital infrastructure as part of continuous engineering and innovation. Additionally, achieving environmental sustainability remains a growing challenge.

Sasken assists enterprises by conducting Industry 4.0 maturity assessments and developing strategic roadmaps for Industrial IoT (IIoT) implementation. Their technical support includes:

  • IIoT strategy planning and ROI analysis
  • Field device commissioning and interoperability testing
  • Embedded engineering for sensors and protocols
  • Custom IIoT platform and application development as per the use case

 An IIoT Edge Gateway acts as a modular software stack that connects factory floor sensors to cloud environments. Sasken’s Edge Gateway Architecture enables Edge AI and Machine Learning, allowing data to be processed locally for real-time insights. This reduces latency and ensures secure connectivity between hardware and analytics platforms.

Predictive maintenance uses real-time data from connected assets to forecast equipment failure before it happens. This allows operators to shift from reactive repairs to proactive maintenance, which significantly reduces unplanned downtime. By using diagnostic and predictive algorithms, companies can lower production costs and extend the lifespan of machinery.

The Sasken IIoT Analytics Platform provides descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and cognitive analytics to optimize industrial operations. These algorithms help manufacturers understand historical trends, identify the causes of equipment issues, and implement self-learning systems. This data-driven approach focuses on improving operational efficiency, supply chain management, and workforce productivity.

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