Die 5 Top-Herausforderungen der Fertigungsindustrie meistern

The latest political and economic crises combined with rising production costs have brought about a lack of raw materials, a scarcity of production resources, and supply chain bottlenecks. Smaller production runs with shrinking batch sizes mean machines have to be refitted more often than they used to. These circumstances are accelerating the trend toward more individualized production, all the way down to batches of one.

MORE FLEXIBLE PLANT RETROFITTING

If you want to minimize downtime and maximize production profitability, your machine changeovers have to be smooth and easy. This takes a plant management system that can save and reload a plant’s status in just a few clicks. AMDT octoplant is an optimized solution that allows you to document and refit an entire plant at the push of a button, whatever the manufacturer. This ensures maximum agility and flexibility.

Never before have there been so many field devices, sensors, SCADA systems, PLCs, and robots in an industrial plant, regardless of the industry. Countless IoT components also mean an exponentially growing volume of data. The relentless march of automation and digitalization in smart factory systems can pose a major data management challenge, especially when devices from different vendors and systems are combined. This is due to the heterogeneity of automation and bus systems, as well as the variety of different software applications that must be compatible with each other.

COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY, REGARDLESS OF DEVICE STATUS

With its easy-to-use data analysis, AMDT ensures optimal data consistency across entire automation ecosystems and facilitates straightforward data management. We support the industry's broadest range of devices from all established manufacturers. Use our database to find out how extensive this compatibility is.

Downtime is the most serious threat to productivity because a system that is not running costs a lot of money from the moment it goes down. As a result, manufacturing companies are doing everything they can to prevent downtime or, if it does occur, to make it as short as possible. One-click disaster recovery is only possible with clear asset management and automated backups. Can you quickly identify the correct system configuration and see what changes were made, when, and by whom? If so, maintenance personnel can quickly and accurately reset production lines or individual machines in the event of a disaster.

RELIABLY RESOTRE THE LAST OPERATING STATUS OF A PLANT

AMDT octoplant allows you to reset a plant to its last operational state. It also uses difference analysis to detect any firmware updates that have been installed in the background. And it produces documentation that allows errors to be logged and analyzed afterwards.

Operational technology (OT) is an increasingly popular target for cyber attacks. Attackers are infiltrating industrial facilities and disrupting production processes using tactics such as ransomware. A device inventory as part of a comprehensive security strategy helps identify vulnerabilities and close security gaps. Targeted threat protection detects risks inside the plant and alerts you to unwanted intrusions and changes from the outside.

STOP MALWARE

octoplant can prevent damage by independently checking the status of firmware and driver versions against the manufacturer's databases. The software also detects unintentionally applied patches and updates that may contain malicious code.

There are a variety of documentation and compliance requirements that must be met. In the event of an audit, extensive documentation is required. In some industries, you need to be able to prove when changes were made, and liability issues need to be addressed. Then there are the various international certifications to consider.

Process manufacturing, such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals or food, can also be particularly challenging, as can critical infrastructure. In both cases, data transparency and tamper-proof recording are critical. Such records are also useful for internal monitoring and production optimization.

SUPPORTING AUDIT TRAIL PROCESSES FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE

With octoplant, companies can meet all their regulatory and compliance requirements and be ready for the next audit. That's because the AMDT solution supports audit trail processes for quality assurance and fulfills the obligations of proof required by regulatory authorities and customers.