Factory Visibility and Operational Efficiency
LTIMindtree's Smart Factory Visibility is a holistic solution that gives overall visibility into plant floor operations to understand better the status and performance of plant floor operations in real-time. Leveraging the shop floor connectivity to get data from shop floor equipment and systems helps provide a 360-degree view of operations in real-time visibility. This view helps make necessary interventions based on any detected anomalies related to product quality and equipment processes.
Energy Management
Using smart energy meters, LTIMindtree's energy management offering collects real-time energy data from various sources across the plant infrastructure. It computes the energy efficiency for each functional area. The insights are shared over intuitive dashboards with visualization and graphical trend curves to help identify opportunities to increase equipment efficiency and reduce energy consumption. The monitored data helps identify energy leakages and other sources of inefficiencies and avoid costly power peaks to significantly reduce overall operation costs.
Track and Trace
LTIMindtree's track and trace offering helps provide material visibility across the supply chain and enables traceability of high-value tooling components on the shop floor. It substantially safeguards the quality and compliance of parts, components, and products from when raw materials are received to when finished goods are shipped from the manufacturing plant. Industry 4.0-based real-time asset tracking solutions can also help manufacturers extend their just-in-time manufacturing processes to their suppliers. This provides an integrated ecosystem for material tracking from the supplier to the end customer.
Digital Work Instruction
LTIMindtree's digital work instruction creates interactive and actionable work instructions for workers to improve the production output and quality of the product and to streamline every step of the manufacturing process. Automatically display the correct tools, build options, tool settings (like tightening torque, angle), associated work instructions, and safety instructions, ensuring products are built correctly every time, even when any changes are made. Instructions can be presented on handheld devices with animations based on 3D model data received from the design department.
Predictive Quality
The offering helps to forecast the quality of the products and components in real-time by identifying and monitoring process conditions that have led to historical product failures and quality defects. LTIMindtree leverages edge analytics, smart sensors, and manufacturing process data to identify deviations in production processes and determine the root cause of defects before any quality issues occur. Manufacturers can identify abnormal events and detect anomalies that may lead to reduced quality output which can help them reduce scrap rates and increase productivity through improved operations.
Predictive Maintenance
Leverage smart sensors, edge analytics, and machine learning algorithms to predict impending failures and optimize real-time maintenance tasks. LTIMindtree's predictive maintenance offering achieves this by monitoring operational data such as temperature, motor current, oil level, acoustics, and vibrations. It feeds it to analytical models, which help in predicting failures. The insights generated enable data-driven decisions for scheduling maintenance activities and maximizing the useful life of the equipment while still preventing line stoppages and plant shutdowns.
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Transform linear operations into interconnected operations and production systems that communicate, adapt, collect, exchange, and analyze data by reaping the benefits of smart manufacturing and improving OEE. LTIMindtree offering draws a correlation between OEE achieved and operational data, identifying the responsible factors and monitoring related parameters to make the right decisions at the right time to improve the overall facility's OEE levels effectively. Detailed understanding of equipment performance through instrumentation and advanced analytics also helps identify and correct the negative factors resulting in the improvement of OEE.
Remote Assistance
Resolve operational issues on the manufacturing shop floor and field operations quickly and proactively using LTIMindtree's remote assistance services. The manufacturers can bridge collaboration between experts and field workers to quickly troubleshoot the issues and cut down production downtime by leveraging Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). The offering can deliver significant cost benefits through an increase in first-time fix rate with the assisted environment and ensures consistency of best practice instructions being followed by field operators.
Worker Safety
Eliminate worker injury by integrating IoT-based sensors with LTIMindtree's smart Computer Vision (CV) solutions to process the digital images captured by security cameras and recognize any safety-related noncompliance by workers. Leveraging the connected capabilities of the Industry 4.0 system, an alarm will be triggered, and a notification will be sent to the shop floor supervisor to detect any safety violations. The offering utilizes zone-wise alerting, video analytics, and proactive alerting by predicting the movements of humans and vehicles to ensure a safe working environment and reduce fatality rates.
Manufacturing Analytics
LTIMindtree's manufacturing analytics leverages shop floor process data, equipment performance data, and critical events in the manufacturing operations to ensure product quality, improve operational performance and yield, reduce the overall cost, and help optimize supply chain operations. The offering provides a scalable solution that enables faster decision-making with actionable insights and helps optimize the asset, plant, and overall operational efficiency across the whole value chain. The business intelligence insights are presented in highly customized personalized dashboards so that management, staff, and suppliers can make efficacious business decisions to enhance productivity and reduce the cost of operations.
Manufacturing Apps on Cloud
Manufacturing organizations can gain a competitive edge and optimize operational costs by moving manufacturing applications to a cloud-based platform. LTIMindtree helps choose the best-suited cloud-based platform compatible with the organization's cloud strategy and manufacturing operations. This enables the organizations to bring down overall costs without compromising shop floor data security. This is achieved by utilizing various services offered by cloud platforms, such as enhanced analytics, better customer insights, competitive product development, machine learning, insights into your overall operational efficiency, and more.
Digital Twin for Process and Plant
LTIMindtree's digital twin offerings provide a near-real-time representation of process and product by leveraging Industry 4.0 capabilities, edge analytics, machine learning, cognitive analytics, and simulation techniques. The process digital twin enables the identification of any possible flaws before the deployment of physical processes. Pilot process digital twins provide real-time feedback and help in supporting the implementation. The offering detects physical issues by simulating all possible scenarios, predicting possible outcomes accurately, and building the best quality products by creating a digital footprint of a product, from its design and development stages to the end of its production cycle. This provides a significant leap towards operational excellence and a robust product design based on continuous feedback.
Assisted Training using AR
Move over monotonous manuals and presentations to train your workers and switch to LTIMindtree's smart AR/VR solutions, which blend both physical and digital worlds to effectively train the workforce across all areas of the value chain, whether it is manufacturing, assembly, or quality checks. Cut down on onboarding and preparation time for new workers and train experienced employees to accommodate new instructions in case of any process modifications.
OT security
LTIMindtree's OT security and vulnerability assessment provides unique insights to identify security risks in plant and site operations. With the convergence of IT-OT, an effective OT strategy with a unified architecture for implementation across plants helps secure the plant systems. The security solution addresses the security risks by securing the perimeter of networks to exclude unauthorized traffic, deploying anti-malware, and hardening software on all IT and OT systems.
Connected Product
With the rapid change in customer preferences, manufacturing OEMs are looking for opportunities to bring better products to the market and improve overall customer experience. There has been a switch from a product to a Product-as-a-Service model, which enables selling desired results to the end customer instead of simply a product. LTIMindtree's connected product is an integrated offering starting with the sensorization of equipment to application development on the Industry 4.0 platform, which makes it very easy to capture product condition data and transform it into actionable insights. With this service offering, the manufacturers can build stronger connections with end customers beyond product sales, thus bringing in transformational user experience and improved after-sales service efficiency.
Asset Efficiency and Maintenance
LTIMindtree leverages the use of Industry 4.0 enabled smart asset management and analytics solution to offer centralized, consolidated tracking and monitoring of the assets across plant and infrastructure. Visualize the assets on a map and keep track of asset performance, health, breakdown time, usable life, and location history. This helps to effectively improve asset utilization by reducing overall downtime. Create effective maintenance/servicing schedules based on the asset health data collected and reports generated by predictive analysis algorithms, thus reducing asset downtime and preventing failure, which in turn helps save costs.
Field Service Experience Transformation
Strengthen customer relationships and loyalty by adding value to the field service experience by enabling access to remotely connected assets and gathering real-time data on the asset's status, health, and efficiency to anticipate and correct predicted product failures. This connectivity also extends to field technicians so they can access asset information like past maintenance records. These equipment health data can be accessed through mobile devices and thus helps in faster response time. Leverage AR through smartphones, tablets, or wearable devices to provide intelligent instructions by overlaying videos directly on the physical device, helping the field service technician be more productive and precise.
