The application arises from the need to monitor and anticipate the problems of one or more machines managed by a PLC. These problems, often resulting from the accumulation over time of small discrepancies, require, when they occur, ex post technical operations maintenance.

AIWA was having challenges in monitoring and optimizing energy efficiency of an entire set of different machines managed by Smart Factory Advisor, balancing of machine work loads of the productive capacity of each processing machine in the production, and collecting data to optimize electricity purchases polices for the forthcoming energy liberalization.