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Upgrading from Manual Transcription to Real-time Monitoring with Advantech’s Industry 4.0 Capabilities

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Apparel
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation Process Control & Optimization Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	The Ching Luh Group, a leading sports footwear manufacturer, was facing the challenge of automating the collection of real-time production information from manual transcription. The traditional approach of manually recording and entering data into a computer system was cumbersome, slow, and prone to errors and inconsistencies. This outdated method prevented managers from having a firm grasp of the real-time production status, hindering the ability to make meaningful improvements. In today’s fiercely competitive market with rapidly changing customer demands, a shoemaker that persists with this outdated approach risks devastation at the hands of competitors. With the advent of Industry 4.0 and associated smart factory technologies, shoemakers and other textile manufacturers must adapt or die, sink or swim. Read More
About Customer	The Ching Luh Group is one of the world’s leading sports footwear manufacturers with manufacturing locations in China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The firm has won the favor of some of the world’s leading sports brands, producing major sneaker lines for them. Moreover, to maintain its cutting-edge reputation, the firm has been quick to optimize its traditional manufacturing processes with the help of Industry 4.0 solutions from Advantech. The Ching Luh Group understood that it was imperative to build a mature ICT infrastructure with a practical management platform to rapidly and efficiently integrate machines and their data. Such comprehensive, real-time integration makes key manufacturing information highly transparent, enormously increasing opportunities for optimization and improvement. Read More
Solution	In early 2017, the Ching Luh Group introduced Advantech’s process visualization solution at its factory in Vietnam in order to build a real-time manufacturing visibility system for the factory floor. Based on Advantech’s iFactory Solution Ready Package (SRP), this solution allowed the firm to develop its own specifically developed application functions. The iFactory SRP drastically reduced system development time, allowing intelligent applications to be implemented with ease and simplicity. It also efficiently integrated Advantech’s embedded automation platform, WebAccess/SCADA software, and wireless data acquisition WISE modules, shortening the implementation schedules for real-time equipment monitoring, manufacturing processes, and energy consumption systems. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Apparel

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Process Control & Optimization

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Ching Luh Group, a leading sports footwear manufacturer, was facing the challenge of automating the collection of real-time production information from manual transcription. The traditional approach of manually recording and entering data into a computer system was cumbersome, slow, and prone to errors and inconsistencies. This outdated method prevented managers from having a firm grasp of the real-time production status, hindering the ability to make meaningful improvements. In today’s fiercely competitive market with rapidly changing customer demands, a shoemaker that persists with this outdated approach risks devastation at the hands of competitors. With the advent of Industry 4.0 and associated smart factory technologies, shoemakers and other textile manufacturers must adapt or die, sink or swim.

About Customer

The Ching Luh Group is one of the world’s leading sports footwear manufacturers with manufacturing locations in China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The firm has won the favor of some of the world’s leading sports brands, producing major sneaker lines for them. Moreover, to maintain its cutting-edge reputation, the firm has been quick to optimize its traditional manufacturing processes with the help of Industry 4.0 solutions from Advantech. The Ching Luh Group understood that it was imperative to build a mature ICT infrastructure with a practical management platform to rapidly and efficiently integrate machines and their data. Such comprehensive, real-time integration makes key manufacturing information highly transparent, enormously increasing opportunities for optimization and improvement.

Solution

In early 2017, the Ching Luh Group introduced Advantech’s process visualization solution at its factory in Vietnam in order to build a real-time manufacturing visibility system for the factory floor. Based on Advantech’s iFactory Solution Ready Package (SRP), this solution allowed the firm to develop its own specifically developed application functions. The iFactory SRP drastically reduced system development time, allowing intelligent applications to be implemented with ease and simplicity. It also efficiently integrated Advantech’s embedded automation platform, WebAccess/SCADA software, and wireless data acquisition WISE modules, shortening the implementation schedules for real-time equipment monitoring, manufacturing processes, and energy consumption systems.

Impact #1	The factory’s real-time manufacturing visibility system has increased factory production and management efficiencies substantially.
Impact #2	Managers are provided with clearly visualized real-time data regarding machine operating statuses, allowing them to engage in productivity analysis with unprecedented efficiency, and helping them to foresee problems before they result in unnecessary equipment downtimes and product defects.
Impact #3	The firm is enjoying enhanced efficiency and reduced costs, while still ensuring that they always “Make It Right”, which should, in turn, help them to enjoy even stronger growth than ever before.

Impact #1

The factory’s real-time manufacturing visibility system has increased factory production and management efficiencies substantially.

Impact #2

Managers are provided with clearly visualized real-time data regarding machine operating statuses, allowing them to engage in productivity analysis with unprecedented efficiency, and helping them to foresee problems before they result in unnecessary equipment downtimes and product defects.

Impact #3

The firm is enjoying enhanced efficiency and reduced costs, while still ensuring that they always “Make It Right”, which should, in turn, help them to enjoy even stronger growth than ever before.

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Upgrading from Manual Transcription to Real-time Monitoring with Advantech’s Industry 4.0 Capabilities

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