Collaboration between Michelin and Rockwell Automation has delivered a cloud-based software platform that unifies, contextualizes and displays data from multiple sources in a globally standardized machine, workshop and plant supervision solution.
The challenge
Michelin has always invested in highly capable contemporary manufacturing solutions – to maintain efficiency, boost quality, reduce waste and keep costs to a minimum. But like many mature companies that have undergone significant organic growth, regular plant investments have led to the deployment of a diverse spread of machines, technologies and services.
All these technologies work together as part of integrated manufacturing plants, but due to their various protocols, architectures and communication capabilities, managing them all as a homogenous solution is challenging, often relying on multiple HMIs and GUIs, all of which can present similar information, but in very different formats.
