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YCM Turns to Advantech to Co-Create a CNC Management Solution for Intelligent Metal Manufacturing
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Metals
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Manufacturing System Automation
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
China’s metal manufacturing industry faces numerous challenges, including a lack of standardized communication interfaces, low-level intelligence in existing equipment, and a low level of informatization in existing systems. YCM, a leader in machine tool manufacturing, is not exempt from these challenges. With the advent of Industry 4.0 and new trends in IoT, YCM faces huge challenges in making their manufacturing smarter using digitized information and visualized data intelligence. Rapid changes in the marketplace, emerging market competition, limited resources and sustainability, slow growth, labor shortages and transitioning business integration are common problems in China’s metal manufacturing industry. To overcome these challenges, YCM needed to focus on process management that yields decreased time-to-market while delivering high-quality and competitive product pricing.
About The Customer
Yeong Chin Machinery Industries Co. Ltd. (YCM) is a machine tool manufacturer with over six decades of experience in China’s metal manufacturing industry. As a leader in the industry, YCM has deep trade experience and has been successful in the past. However, with the advent of Industry 4.0 and new trends in IoT, YCM faces significant challenges in making their manufacturing smarter using digitized information and visualized data intelligence. The company is grappling with rapid changes in the marketplace, emerging market competition, limited resources and sustainability, slow growth, labor shortages, and transitioning business integration.
The Solution
To meet the challenges of the Industry 4.0 era, YCM turned to Advantech and its CNC Machine Management Solution, a Machine-to-Intelligence Solution Ready Package that implements CNC machine management (M2I/CNC SRP). This solution allowed YCM to rapidly upgrade their legacy systems for a successful transition into the Industry 4.0 era. Advantech’s M2I/CNC SRP allowed YCM to directly integrate IoT cloud features into its CNC controllers to facilitate machine data acquisition through the WISE-PaaS industrial cloud platform. By subscribing to the M2I/CNC cloud service on Advantech’s WISE-PaaS Marketplace, YCM was able to easily examine overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), performance, and event history for individual CNC devices by viewing web-based dashboards. The cloud-based solution allowed for the collection of data for instant machine-to-cloud management without having to install a server room infrastructure.
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