Smart Manufacturing and IoT Solutions

Introduction to Smart Manufacturing

Smart manufacturing is a technology-driven approach that uses Internet-connected machinery to observe the production process. The purpose of SM is to recognize the possibilities for automating processes and use data analytics to enhance manufacturing execution.

Machines have threshold values for the different parameters like Temperature, Oil pressure, and Amperage which should not be crossed.
Implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables proactive maintenance breaks on the machines to enable manufacturing for smart manufacturing. The collection of data in Real-Time is an excellent solution.
Smart Manufacturing industries reduce the risks

Challenge for Building the IoT Platform

Scalable Solution for smart manufacturing to manage all the machines at a single central point and handle sizeable Real-Time streaming data from sensors that can provide the alerts and trigger to turn off the motor in very minimum time.

Solution Offered Real-Time Data and IoT Platform

Installation of the sensor to collect each value (Temperature, Oil pressure, Amperage) in Real-Time using Google Cloud Platform.

Google Cloud IoT Core to ingest data from all sensors attached to different machines. The data collected from the sensors contain the machine identification number to differentiate the received data.

Google Cloud IoT Core sends the collected data to Google Cloud Pub/Sub. This data stream routes at multiple locations. Store the raw data into BigQuery and also to Google Cloud Function.

Detect whether the collected data values are higher than the threshold values. Implement Google Cloud Function and Google Pub/Sub as the trigger. Google Cloud function is an event-driven serverless compute platform to deploy Function As a Service which is auto-scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant.

Cloud function triggers the configuration changes to the Google Cloud IoT Core if data values are higher than the threshold value, for another sensor which controls the motor of the machine.

Google Cloud IoT Core sends the trigger to the device to turn off the machine and have a maintenance break.