OCTOBER - 201919MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSBy Eric Kierstead, Chief Information Officer, Material Handling Systems, Inc.Could you walk me through some of the things that you are working on right now at the company?We have several IOT initiatives here. MHS manufactures and integrates a wide array of material handling equipment--conveyors, chutes, sorters, etc. These are deployed in a variety of different ways at places like Amazon, UPS, and Federal Express. When it comes to IOT, we put sensors and monitors on a lot of these so called "things". These things are usually the moving parts such as motors, drives and conveyors. We send wireless signals to our applications running in the cloud that constantly monitor these parts for indications of an upcoming failure. That way, our customers can replace the part before it fails and causes significant lost productivity. As part of that solution, we are applying machine learning to make our system "smarter" on what are the signal pattern of a part that's about to fail. Users can monitor our dashboard displaying green-yellow-red for each monitored part. IoT has a lot of amazing applications, and B-to-C commerce companies have many great examples. They companies have highly automated distribution and fulfillment centers, and if a conveyor goes down--especially something like IoT and Preventive Analytics on the Shop FloorCXO INSIGHTS
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