Industrial Automation

Industrial Automation

Data utilization service for the manufacturing floor.

Our i-BELT Data Services assist in linking the production and management challenges with manufacturing data. The data is turned into meaningful information to achieve practical improvements and to solve your production challenges
OMRON is your co-creation partner that realizes continuous improvement of the production site.

With the development of IoT, AI and robotics, the evolution of manufacturing is highly anticipated. On the other hand, many companies are facing severe issues, such as the scarcity of technicians who are indispensable for the evolution of manufacturing, and the growing shortage of labor, diversification, and high energy costs. Maintaining manufacturing and strengthening competitiveness has become a top priority.

Co-creation

With our i-BELT Data Utilization Services, we co-create the acceleration of digital transformation, and sustainable production and improve energy productivity together with our customers to continuously innovate the art of manufacturing.

Working together with you, our Industrial engineering, manufacturing, and data experts identify and examine your production and management challenges. We strive to continue innovating your manufacturing process by merging your know-how & experience with OMRON’s unique know-how, technology, and products.

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Lean Six Sigma Principles

Our Lean Six Sigma certified industrial engineering experts collaborate with you to survey challenges, measure data, and discuss improvement potential. We focus on understanding your manufacturing pains, defining issues, and drafting evolution scenarios to deliver innovative solutions. This holistic approach, rooted in digitally driven Lean Six Sigma Principles, lays the groundwork for visualizing improvements, setting targets, and creating a roadmap for your continuous innovation. Elevate your manufacturing process with i-BELT’s data-driven approach, merging your process expertise with OMRON’s unique technology for i-Automation!

i-BELT Data Services Matrix

We will provide a plant examination service in four value categories (manufacturing, quality, equipment, energy) to tackle your challenges. We extract issues through visualization and analysis, and provide services, such as improvement assistance and automation, suited to different phases and needs.

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i-BELT data service process

To simplify the efforts from both sides, we follow a step-by-step approach so that we understand customer’s challenges deeply and plan the future roadmap together with our customers while minimizing the initial investments for them.

Step 1: Assessment

By Lean Six Sigma certified industrial engineering consultancy and workshop methodology, we survey customers’ challenges and operating state (data collection, quality, production budget, load time, etc.). We measure the required data for estimation, discuss improvement potential, and propose a draft evolution scenario.

  • Understanding customer pains and goals
  • Assessment of Industry 4.0 maturity level
  • Gap analysis and clearly defined issues
  • Evolution scenario discussion
Step 2: Installation and Data Collection

Based on Step 1 results, we plan for comprehensive data collection. Digitalization via PLC Upgrades, Installation of sensors and data aggregators.  This facilitates the “visualization” to provide an improvement estimation and offer assistance in determining targets and future roadmap.

  • Installation of sensors and controllers for digitalization
  • Setup Data aggregators
  • Comprehensive data collection
Step 3: Visualization and Analysis

In this step, we build a dashboard to continuously monitor the manufacturing process. We promote process innovation to ensure customer’s goals are achieved.

  • Continuous monitoring
  • Extensive analysis report
  • Recommendations under the scope for process innovation
  • Manual improvements
Step 4: Improvement

In this step, OMRON and the customer engage in a partnership to continuously improve upcoming challenges. We continue to promote manufacturing floor innovation to attain customers’ goals by making use of various improvement processes and systems developed in our factories and labs.

  • Working together with customers to solve upcoming issues, and to continuously innovate the customer’s processes.
  • Develop data solutions in cooperation with customer.
  • Implement AI and possible autonomous systems if applicable.
  • Implement predictive improvements and prediction systems.

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