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Manufacturer Achieves Quality IT Performance at Plants with NETSCOUT
技术
- 分析与建模 - 实时分析
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
适用行业
- 电子产品
适用功能
- 离散制造
- 质量保证
用例
- 自动化制造系统
- 预测性维护
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 系统集成
挑战
该公司遍布全球的工厂对于实现总体生产配额至关重要,它们必须像主要制造设施一样表现出色。毫不奇怪,这些分布式工厂严重依赖 IT 技术,例如自动装配线,用于在生产线上的设备之间传达指令和状态。此外,并非所有公司的远程设施都使用集中式 IT 服务;相反,它们使用本地托管的应用程序。这些远程设施在“盒中网络”上运行,其中 VMware ESX 服务器用于托管制造/生产应用程序,这些应用程序负责条形码扫描、打印和通信以及 DNS、文件服务和 LDAP 等底层网络协议。这些应用程序对于运营工厂的生产线和业务流程至关重要。当机器之间的通信变慢或停止时,症状可能不会在本地迅速显现,并且可能会持续几个小时,导致生产线延迟、完全停止或产生需要返工的问题。
关于客户
这家大型北美制造商生产和销售家用电器、电动机、照明产品以及许多其他家用、商业和工业用电气产品。从厨房和洗衣房的小型到大型电器,再到商用暖通空调系统,这家制造商已成为全球家庭和企业的必备产品。他们的其他产品包括最先进的灯泡和专业照明解决方案,以及家用和工业电动机和发电机。该公司在全球拥有数十家工厂和研发机构,并在多家大型零售连锁店的商店中拥有销售点订购功能,因此 IT 服务性能至关重要。
解决方案
网络工作人员选择了 vSTREAM 虚拟设备,该设备是对现有基于 ASI 的 InfiniStreamNG 硬件设备的补充,以便在每个工厂以及直接在支持生产线的应用程序上提供相同级别的可见性。借助 vSTREAM,他们能够直接在每个远程设施上已经部署的 ESX 服务器上的“盒中网络”上实施本地监控,提供主动的网络和应用程序监控。在非常小的站点,vSTREAM 是在部署了“路由器中的网络”配置的服务器刀片上实施的。网络运营团队现在可以查看工厂中正在运行的服务,从用于库存管理的条形码应用程序到装配线,以保持高效的生产服务。
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