If there was a way to reduce time spent on repairs and increase efficiency, you’d take it, right? With the increase in product data it’s becoming increasingly easy businesses to understand how their products behave out in the field. Manufacturers are beginning to view new IoT features in their products as an opportunity to innovate through efficiencies. For anyone interested in accessing these benefits, there are three reasons why product data from IoT-enabled products can dramatically transform the manufacturing process that you need to know.
1.Monitoring and transmitting data, enabling continual communication with products
By inserting, sensors and chips into machinery and domestic appliances, you can monitor and transmit product data whilst it is in use. For instance, if you manufacture washing machines, the data captured whilst the product is in operation can record temperature levels, pressure, water Ph value and frequency. This data is collectively the “voice” of your electronic appliance, giving you a complete picture of how it’s performing. For the manufacturing industry, IoT resembles huge potential because product data analytics can prevent faults or breakdowns altogether.
2.Prevent product breakdowns
The benefits of this are clear. It means you can pre-empt product faults.By analysing product data captured over time, certain trends and cues can be identified as leading to a breakdown. Instead of a technician taking the time and expertise to repair a broken machine, scheduled maintenance could prevent the breakdown before it even happens.
3.Changing expectations of product performance
Manufacturers can use product data to address design flaws through analysing performance of current products. These advances in product performance and reliability can fundamentally change the way you optimise your product. Plus, as the end-user becomes ever-more demanding on increased quality, so too will the need to adopt IoT-enabled product improvements. This product information will help you to refine the final product, based on user needs.
This emerging trend will become ingrained in our expectations of products and entire industries. Manufacturers can tap into these new capabilities, listening to the voice of smart-connected products, to reduce breakdown time and increase efficiency in the manufacturing process.
