Preparing for a fully automated future
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- Asia
国家
- Singapore
产品
- EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor
- EcoStruxure Machine Advisor
- Harmony Hub & Power Tag sensors
- Compact NSX circuit breakers
- Harmony Hub wireless gateway
技术栈
- IoT
- Data Analytics
- Augmented Reality
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
- Digital Expertise
技术
- 功能应用 - 远程监控系统
适用行业
- 塑料
适用功能
- 离散制造
- 质量保证
用例
- 预测性维护
- 能源管理系统
- 工厂可见化与智能化
服务
- 系统集成
- 数据科学服务
关于客户
Sanwa is a plastics manufacturer established in 1977. The company has grown into an international presence that supplies Schneider Electric and car manufacturers in South-East Asia. They operate nine factories from their global headquarters at Woodlands East Industrial Estate in Singapore. Despite their success, Sanwa knows they are vulnerable to shifting market forces. Sensing opportunity, they began their digitalization journey in 2016 with two long-term goals: to digitalize and automate their factories, ultimately achieving zero defective parts per million for their clients. In doing so, Sanwa would gain efficiency and demonstrable business growth, especially when only 13% in the region have started Industry 4.0 transformations.
挑战
Sanwa, a plastics manufacturer in Singapore, was facing challenges due to regional competition, a dwindling labour supply, and rising operational costs. They saw digitalization as the solution to improve factory productivity, develop skilled employees, and dramatically boost energy efficiency. They started their digitalization journey in 2016 with two long-term goals: to digitalize and automate their factories, ultimately achieving zero defective parts per million for their clients. They started a pilot project with a single production cell as proof of concept for all their stakeholders. The first automation phase successfully showed that they could do more with the same manpower, with localized data collection. The next step in 2018 was to link more of such production cells together into a data network. Forming that data network was crucial for Sanwa for it determined all the necessary steps forward. Other than productivity, their chief concern was traceability and transparency—they were losing time and money on dated manual reports.
解决方案
Sanwa decided to build a 580 sqm model factory area within their Singapore plant in 2019. This new development covered their automotive components line, with consultation from Schneider Electric, iPlast 4.0, and other industry partners. Following field investigations and interviews, Sanwa adopted EcoStructure™ architecture to drive all their data collection and visual interfaces. Compact NSX circuit breakers were installed for their remote monitoring capabilities, allowing Sanwa to pinpoint energy consumption to individual machines. While these already have a SmartLink gateway, Sanwa is planning to implement Schneider Electric’s Harmony Hub wireless gateway during Phase 2 of its Digitalization Journey for comprehensive IoT coverage. This allows Sanwa to not only monitor energy consumption but also temperature, humidity, and pressure through a host of wireless sensors. iPlast 4.0 collects and analyses this data with an on-site manufacturing intelligence system, which is then relayed back to the operations team through other Schneider Electric solutions.
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