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Apollo Tyres ’ Global R & D Centre in Asia other Apollo Tyres plants are poised to adopt this system soon , including the company ’ s Dutch facility in Enschede . Additionally , Output Industries plans to create a white-label version of the system for other businesses to use in their manufacturing processes in the coming months .
“ Having an MES system in the cloud naturally promotes the ability for these systems to communicate with each other in a way that a traditional piece of software being run in a factory can ’ t ,” adds Tom Baker , Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Output Industries .
“ With the ability to iterate the cloud naturally promotes standardisation and naturally discourages silos of data . I think the ability to connect those things has been a key part of our success .”
Hizmy emphasises that having an MES system in the cloud has also helped from a material standpoint . “ Manufacturing tyres is complex and every tyre part you assemble looks the same ,” Tom explains .
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