Smart manufacturing through sensor based efficiency monitoring system (SBEMS)

Abstract

The emergence of IoT (Internet of Things) fuels an incipient generation of modern applications and enhancing effectiveness. Smart manufacturing is the significant aspect to meet the innovation and competitiveness in the production environment. The application of IoT avails to increment the overall understanding in the factory through connected smart objects. This paper proposes an integrated solution of sensor affixed machines, data acquisition model and data analytics. The proposed system design and implementation is pertaining to a manufacturing company to monitor the efficiency of processes in each stage in the production environment. The focus is on monitoring and inferring insights on the efficiency of machines and operators in a cloud environment. Experimental evaluation shows a drastic amendment in the shop floor visibility area by integrating sensors for data acquisition and providing insights through the analytic tool.