FANUC and Cisco Collaborate to Increase Uptime for Connected Machines
October 07 2015 - 11:19AM
Business Wire
Cisco® and FANUC America today announced a collaboration to
connect industrial robots in the manufacturing industry. The robots
operate on connected systems to allow new, preventative maintenance
on operational equipment, which can result in a dramatic reduction
of unplanned production downtime.
The announcement comes after Cisco and FANUC America’s 12-month
Zero Downtime (ZDT) pilot project with a major automotive
manufacturer. FANUC America and Cisco helped significantly decrease
related production downtime and as a result increased overall
equipment effectiveness (OEE).
Many manufacturers operate at high volumes, and unplanned
production downtime is costly. With the FANUC ZDT Solution, the
system proactively detects and informs of potential equipment or
process problems before unexpected downtime occurs, allowing the
maintenance issue to be addressed in a planned outage window.
Cisco’s new Connected Machines offering helps enable machine
builders and end-user manufacturers to embed Cisco switching,
security and compute technologies directly in the machine itself -
or in a factory-floor aggregation device. This “edge compute”
approach optimizes available network resources and bandwidth by
analyzing big data on the plant floor prior to transmitting to a
data center or cloud-based data store for further analysis.
FANUC, a world-leading CNC systems and industrial robot company
that supplies machines to manufacturers, uses big data analytics to
identify maintenance procedures that can prevent breakdowns before
they occur.
In the past, issues were discovered only after production
downtime had occurred in the factory and only when a physical
connection to the robot allowed for analysis and subsequent
service. With the FANUC ZDT solution, the robot is connected
through a Cisco network and then into a Cisco edge compute data
collector in the plant.
The data relevant for the maintenance issue is sent to the Cisco
Cloud where the cloud analytics engine captures the “out of range”
exceptions and predicts the maintenance need. Then, an alert is
sent from the cloud application to FANUC service personnel and to
the manufacturing customer about the need for replacement part. The
part is then shipped to arrive at the factory in time for the next
scheduled planned maintenance window.
Rick Schneider, CEO for FANUC America, says the potential for
this solution across all their implementations could add profound
value for customers and help enable the IoT Digital Transformation
that many manufacturers have long anticipated.
“Preventing unplanned downtime is a huge savings for our
customers and makes the FANUC robots with ZDT a tremendous value.
With Cisco, we are helping our customers access this new value and
also re-imagining our go-to-market strategy for after-sales service
and support.”
Find out more by watching the FANUC Cisco ZDT Overview
Video.
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About FANUC America Corporation
FANUC America Corporation of Rochester Hills, MI, is a
subsidiary of FANUC CORPORATION Japan, and provides
industry-leading robotics, CNC systems, and factory automation.
FANUC’s innovative technologies and proven expertise help
manufacturers in the Americas maximize efficiency, reliability and
profitability.
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