Leveraging IIoT in plastic manufacturing
IIoT integrates complex industrial processes through automation and cloud computing to refine and optimize work processes. Modifying existing workflows to integrate men, machines, and the manufacturing process into a structured mesh of interconnected devices – IIoT is allowing data collection, exchange, and analysis for improved productivity, efficiency, and output.
The plastics industry is witnessing rapid growth while encountering everyday challenges in lack of real-time monitoring, inaccuracy in measurement, and absence of precise predictive analytics. Further, interpretation of data has been a challenge, preventing manufacturing firms from appropriately implementing industry recommendations to optimize performance. Here, IIoT can play a driving role in undoing barriers of insufficient equipment effectiveness and downtime.
Since 1866, when Hiram Bond Everest established the Vacuum Oil Company and patented the vacuum distillation process, Mobil Lubricants has traversed many successes and challenges to today become a recognized leader of lubrication innovation. Now, digitalization of processes is bringing home fresh opportunities for innovation – and Mobil is leaving no stone unturned to optimistically ride this new tide of change.
Mobil has earned global recognition for assisting plastic manufacturers in strengthening their operations for better efficiency, productivity, and profitability. The company has developed a complete line of hydraulic oils, gear and compressor oils, fluids, and greases to maintain continuity in operations and ensure the competitiveness of the manufacturer. A few key offerings for plastic manufacturers include the Mobil DTE™ 20 Ultra Series hydraulic oils, Mobil DTE 10 Excel Series lubricants that enhance hydraulic system efficiency, Mobil Polyrex EM electric motor, and bearings grease, and Mobil SHC Gear synthetic gear oils to reduce unplanned downtime and maintenance costs.
Guided by AI-enabled trend analysis, IIoT Insights connects machines through a wireless network to collect data automatically and provide real-time alerts. The interface converts raw production data into actionable insights while its AI/ML-powered functionality provides customized alerts, ensures optimized energy consumption, measures equipment effectiveness, and enables trend monitoring, among other benefits. With this, site managers can gather an aggregated view of data management that includes monitoring parameters such as daily production details, machine run time, downtime, etc. Additionally, the solution helps top
business executives get direct access to high-level metrics like machine overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), energy consumption, and other production details. It also lends insights into drivers of underperformance through high-level metrics while also identifying the opportunities for increasing efficiencies. By collecting raw data, analyzing it, and providing reliable recommendations on a real-time remote basis – IIoT insights have taken the leap into realizing Industry 4.0. For plastic manufacturers, this is a fresh opportunity towards increasing efficiency, optimizing output, and paving the way for greater profitability. The digital era is here, and Mobil is dedicated to assisting manufacturers in upgrading their abilities for an automated tomorrow.
For more details: www.mobil.co.in/en-in/business/plastics/mobilserv-iiot-insights
