Data-driven process and maintenance optimization
SMS-Metrics - the comprehensive solution combining advanced analytics with continuous development and expert consulting services.
By integrating data analytics functionality with strategic advisory, SMS-Metrics enables customers to leverage a continuous improvement process driven by SMS expertise. This unique blend allows users to not only capture and analyze machine data effectively but also gain insights from seasoned professionals who understand the intricacies of industrial processes.
Through this synergy, customers are guided to develop their best practices that enhance operational efficiency and productivity. Using existing data as well as applying additional sensors, the machine condition is monitored and maintenance is aided. The continuous development aspect of SMS-Metrics ensures that clients are supported in exploding data and implementing improvements, leading to sustained growth and innovation within their operations. As a result, SMS-Metrics facilitates a holistic approach to increase machine availability, process optimization, and energy management, empowering customers to achieve superior outcomes based on machine data.
Open platform architecture, focus on data security
SMS-Metrics can be integrated in local or cloud infrastructures. Here, open standards such as OPC-UA (Open Platform Communications - Unified Architecture) are thoroughly applied. Due to neutrality and flexibility, it can be ensured that machine data are available in the long term. Here, data security is entirely of particular importance. Accepted data transfer encoding mechanisms are applied. Customer has transparent access to his data at any time and decides who gets access.
With SMS-Metrics, users gain a new level of process transparency and therefore access to valuable information. Examples are:
- Energy consumption even down to specified single motors in relation to each part of the process. Therefore inefficient automation sequences and motors can be identified quickly and acted upon.
- Quality variations due to changes in machine parameters become more visible.
- Key Performance Indicators such as availability will be calculated and feedback presented.
- Any specific signal from historic data can be recalled instantly. Anomalies can be zoomed in within the same graph down to seconds resolution.
Seamless integration, flexible extension
SMS-Metrics is a component of digitalization which can be seamlessly integrated into other products. Consequently, customer-specific tools may benefit from this high-grade processing of machine data. The tool scales from individual machines up to a complete plant. The digitalization products of SMS group offer a special highlight since manufacturer specific knowledge is included in data processing. This solution combines expert knowledge in many SMS fields such as technology, engineering and software development.
The introduction of the system can be realized easily and signals can be quickly integrated into a cloud variant. Additional hardware is not necessary since all new SMS group plants have already been prepared for SMS-Metrics. At any time, the system can be flexibly extended or upgraded.
SMS-Metrics is particularly interesting for technologists, production planners, plant managers, maintenance experts and machine operators. Individual dashboards can be configured for each user group.