Infographic An Essential Component of Your Smart Factory? Cloud Computing.
Harnessing the cloud can impact every facet of your manufacturing business.
By Insight Editor / 7 Jan 2022
In our new era of manufacturing, cloud computing is key to heightened visibility, productivity and success. Take a look at key areas primed for intelligent cloud solutions, available from Insight.
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An Essential Component of Your Smart Factory? Cloud Computing.
Harnessing the cloud can impact every facet of your manufacturing business.
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Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have ushered in a new era of manufacturing, driving organizations to strive for the title of Factory of the Future. A key component of this future? Cloud computing.
Smart manufacturing is best supported by cloud infrastructure, and embracing the cloud is essential to support advanced robotics, IIoT and increasingly connected processes.
Cloud computing provides:
- Faster, more accurate oversight of technologies
- Enhanced communication between machines and automation
- Real-time data and analytics
- Scalability, flexibility and efficiency
See how cloud solutions can drive heightened success in these key areas:
Operations management
Cloud computing can touch every aspect of your Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM).
With the right tools, you’ll achieve seamless oversight of:
- Design
- Production
- Quality controls
- Vendor relations
- Global sales & marketing in one, centralized location
Utilizing cloud insights for your MOM systems can lead to significant IT cost savings through decreased redundancy, faster responsiveness and minimized human error.
Data analytics
Easily analyze information points to better tailor products and services through cloud-integrated data.
When data is gathered and processed in real time, you’ll have full visibility into troubleshooting assessments and predictive maintenance, leading to less downtime and higher productivity.
Big data in manufacturing
Big data provides analytics that can improve factory processes, ensure quality, reduce risk and boost equipment usage. Pulled from a myriad of sources, big data can be integrated in the cloud and then analyzed to better tailor products to your target customers.
To maximize data benefits, manufacturers should regularly refresh their data centers/storage solutions. With cloud storage, data is hosted by a service provider on a public, private or hybrid cloud.
Benefits of cloud storage:
- Lower cost for maintenance and upkeep
- Easy to scale
- Protected against physical threats
Supply chain integration
Cloud-based systems allow everyone along the supply chain to view the same real-time information through integrated IT platforms and analytics, leading to easier collaboration.
This end-to-end visibility enables organizations to solve problems as they arise, so the chain isn’t so severely disrupted by unexpected events.
Increased integration leads to:
- Fewer delays
- Heightened flexibility
- Reduced waste
- Improved profit margins
Product development & trend forecasting
With intelligent cloud solutions, engineers can access high-powered digital design tools anywhere, on any device, streamlining product design and time-to-market.
Cloud computing has enabled key manufacturing production systems, including 3D printing and generative design, as well as product planning and development processes.
Did you know: Digital services — such as cloud computing — account for at least 25% of the total inputs that go into finished manufactured products.
Cloud-powered insights also allow for crucial visibility into upcoming trends, market growth, customer needs and more.
Harness the cloud for your connected factory.
Cloud computing democratizes data, streamlines processes and simplifies enterprise management for your connected organization. It’s a hallmark technology of Industry 4.0 and a critical investment for manufacturers looking to keep up with a quickly changing industry.
Accomplish more with Insight. We’ll tailor cutting-edge technology to power your smart factory.
References
Ezell, S. and Swanson, B. (June 2017). How Cloud Computing Enables Modern Manufacturing. Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
