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the premiere of Coreflux Use Cases (almost as thrilling as the X-Files, or Law & Order).

Today, we kick off with Case Study no.1:

A Pharmaceutical Industry client that automated its factory’s data collection in order to calculate and improve their Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).

Spoiler alert: not only did they improve their production, they even got a nice bonus in the process.

The Challenge:

Real-time data acquisition to calculate the true Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).

This aims to capture downtime and micro-stops events from production equipment, facilitating the implementation of efficient preventive maintenance.  

Problem:

Production and maintenance data collection was performed on paper, by the supervisor at the end of each shift.

Time loss: 1 hour per area.

Production data was only recorded at the end of each production shift.

Delay: 8 hours.

Manual collection by operators often missed detection of micro-stops in production.  

The Coreflux Pipeline:

Key Components:

MQTT Edge Broker integrated into each equipment controller, with Bridge asset integration.

Central MQTT Broker integrated into IT infrastructure.

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Flux Assets in OT:

• Siemens S7 Asset
• Modbus TCP/IP Asset
• Ethernet/IP Asset

Flux Assets in IT:

• MSSQL Asset
• NoSQL Asset
• MQTT Bridge Asset

Roles:

• Plant Managers
• Equipment and maintenance managers

Target Group:

• Operators

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Benefits & Value:

• Shorter potential downtime;
• Longer equipment lifespan;
• Minimal systematic errors;
• Less time and effort needed for identifying and resolving issues.
• Bonus: it simplifies stock management processes.  

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