Manufacturing Magazine December 2018 | Page 55

“ Self-healing factories will see components able to proactively fix themselves , before a problem arises with continuous production the norm ”

— Ian Dowd , CMO at SSG Insight
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In a factory or manufacturing context , what are the main parameters that Agility monitors ? Common parameters are temperature , vibration , noise , electric current , smell etc . It will often depend on the nature of the operation and customer . With AgilityBI you can make sense of the myriad of data points to create intelligent insight , tracking trends over time and unlocking the value in IoT data .
Presumably a large part of developing a product for such a complex task is to reduce that complexity so it can be easily managed – how has that been achieved ? Agility is designed to do the complex work in the background , making things simple and easy for the individual users . The user experience delivers the optimum display of information for that user , based on their job profile and
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