DENSO Corporation today announced it’s “Factory-IoT Platform” will connect 130 production factories worldwide with information technology (IT) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies based on the concept of “as if under one roof.”
It said in a press release that this was the first in-house development of a Cloud-native platform using open-source-software in the automotive supplier industry. The newly developed platform stores data collected from a variety of equipments at various production sites in a single Cloud that can be used freely across DENSO’s organisation.
By connecting factories around the world in the Cloud, it strengthens DENSO’s global production system, enables factories to respond immediately to production changes based on local demand, and allows production teams to conduct real-time analysis of the movement of workers and operation statuses of different facilities, said DENSO. In addition, technical engineers in the field can incorporate digital power using their own software into the physical improvement activities accumulated over many years, which will further accelerate gains in efficiency, quality and cost savings.
After a roughly two-year development period, DENSO implemented the Factory-IoT platform in October 2019. During the development process, DENSO focused on three points: giving in-house software engineers the ability to keep improving and evolving the platform even after it has been put into operation; enhancing the company’s ability to leverage agile development techniques, which consists of short cycles of development; and allowing DENSO to share data with internal and external partners as an open platform so that they can work together to improve and develop applications. As a result, DENSO is the first in the automotive supplier industry to develop its own cloud-native Factory-IoT platform instead of using existing services.
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