Krauss Maffei
Increasing productivity without compromising security. How uaGate fulfills strict security requirements while unlocking production data to improve production efficiency.
Background
- Krauss Maffei Technologies GmbH is a leading manufacturer of machinery and equipment for the plastics and rubber industry.
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodology was implemented to optimize machine capacity utilization and productivity.
Business need
- Manual collection and registration of production was partially inaccurate. Data was discrete and the process was not scalable.
- The data collection process need to be automated and human interaction in the process need to be removed.
Technical Requirements
- Access to an heterogenous machine pool including Siemens controllers.
- High security level and a platform-independent open solution.
- Access to the PLCs should be customized for different users and client applications.
- uaGateSI gateways
- OPC UA and MQTT open platforms/protocols
- Individualized access control and configuration rights, user authentication and data encryption.
- Physical separation between office and production networks.
- Best-in-class security.
- Easy connectivity to Siemens, cloud and business software.
- Open platform facilitates system evolutions.
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