December - 201919MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSmachine, and event levels provide managers, operators, and engineering with realtime insights down to the most detailed level of the equipment.GEM's Precare PdM deploys sophisticated machine learning algorithms, and automated machine learning process flows to predict with high accuracy when a machine failure will occur, allowing manufacturers to schedule just-in-time maintenance in order to reduce machine downtime and optimize equipment performance and output quality. GEM's Precare Dashboard provides a clear and functional presentation of statuses, alarms, trends, KPIs, while Precare Reports provides standard and custom formatted data with extensive sets of filters and can be scheduled to run automatically.Testimony to the benefits of the GEM Precare IIoT platform is the case of a large semiconductor manufacturer that lacked visibility into mission-critical KPIs at every level of its manufacturing operations. The enormous CAPEX and OPEX for upgrading to newer equipment were simply not justified. The deployment of GEM Precare agents resulted in digital twins for the factory machines, facilitating the acquisition of real-time data from the machines. This data fed GEM Precare KPIs resulting in real-time OEE, Availability, Performance, Quality, MTBF, and MTBA KPIs displayed for the manufacturer at any level of its operations, all the way down to machine events; all this within 24 hours of engagement. As a result, the manufacturer gained 100 percent visibility into real-time KPI data and 20 percent increase in machine availability, resulting in a positive impact on gross margins and revenue, without the large CAPEX and OPEX associated with purchasing and deploying Industry 4.0 ready machines. Return on investment was a matter of a few months from the time of deployment. Consequently, the customer continues to expand the GEM Precare footprint within its manufacturing operations. GEM offers its Precare IIoT platform across various sectors, among which the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries are at the core of the company's business. These industries serve multi-billion markets, such as automotive, computing, telecom, datacom, and consumer markets. The experience gained from the semiconductor manufacturing industry, and tools developed for KPIs are highly transferrable to other industries; hence, GEM's next growth step is to expand into industries of electronics, plastics, and heavy manufacturing. Augmenting any machine with automatic data collection is what makes GEM stand out from its competitors. "By delivering rich technology stacks, agility, and consistently high levels of service to our customers and partners allows us to organically expand within existing customer accounts and address new customer opportunities," concludes Garniek. Rich technology stacks, Unique Edge, Data Integration and Analytics IP, agility and consistently high level of service to our customers and partners allow us to organically expand within existing customer accounts and address new customer opportunities
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