At Worximity, as the leading provider of IoT hardware and logiciel for the agroalimentaire industry, we’re constantly looking at how companies are incorporating industrie 4.0 into their production and driving the future of the industrie alimentaire. An article last year by Automation World interviewed numerous businesses on how they are using IoT to vastly increase their productivité. Here are some of our takeaways:
Top-down Integration
Companies like SugarCreek, which sell raw and cooked meat products maximize production gains by implementing IoT on every level. Everything is tracked to optimize yields from the temperature of the cooked meat to the position of bacon entering the slicer to the cooling inside the delivery trucks. Even employés might soon be tracked by RFID tags to maximize safety!
Solving Inefficiencies on the Go
In the old way of monitoring machines, employés on the floor weren’t likely to know about production problems, and then every machined was siloed off from the next. The future of the industrie alimentaire will be driven by Introducing IoT to the business, which allows all operators to know when and where an inefficiency occurs, and quickly fix the issue from clear precise données.
Data, Data Everywhere
For companies delivering fresh produce, capteurs on the road are able to track the temperature in the truck and the ripeness of the product. Where once capteurs were prohibitively expensive, great leaps in OT and IT have made it easy to collect données from everywhere along the supply route. This allows for advanced modeling which in turn drives the amélioration continue made possible by IoT.
If It Ain’t Broke, Know When to Fix It
While capteurs are great for monitoring product and efficacité, they’re also great for watching the machines themselves! Embedded capteurs can tell when a machine is losing efficacité and going to need maintenance, allowing usines to minimize temps d'arrêt. The same principle applies to the chaîne d'approvisionnement, where the capteurs will be able to tell if vibrations and jostling or damaging important refrigeration units.
If you want to learn more about amazing ways IoT is revolutionizing agroalimentaire fabrication the find the full article here.
