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IoT in Manufacturing Industry

Start Now for the Future of Manufacturing

Start Now for the Future of Manufacturing

Manufacturing is in the throes of change and the Internet of Things (IoT) is the technology that holds the key to coping with it. With solutions from the Internet of Things you will succeed in transforming your company from a manufacturer pure and simple into a service provider and manufacturer.

Find out the areas where we with our solutions can help you to digitize and how successful enterprises are already putting the IoT to good use. Let us help you to become even more successful in your business.

Recognize Challenges and Overcome Them Together

On their way to a smart factory and to becoming a manufacturing service provider manufacturers must overcome a wide range of challenges:

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  • Products and services must win clients and make them enthusiastic in the long term.


  • Economic management of resources must boost productivity and efficiency and cut costs.



  • Optimized intralogistics and production processes should facilitate the best possible level of reliability.


  • Digital technologies are to protect and ease the burden on employees and to ensure swifter processes.

Our Solutions for Your Success

The following use cases will show you how our IoT solutions can support you in areas of crucial importance for your future success.

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Improve Product and Service Experiences


  • Digital Service: When companies digitize their value creation they can optimize what they offer their customers, such as by being able to respond faster and more individually to customers’ wishes thanks to connected products. We provide both the hardware and the connectivity that are required.


  • Product-as-a-Service: Our IoT solutions enable companies to offer not only products but also products as a service. Precise and transparent acquisition of usage data, for example, facilitates pay-per-use models. That enables companies to expand their portfolio and deal with customers’ needs more specifically.

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Enhance Efficiency


  • Monitoring: We connect machines and enable interoperability and production twins, thereby making machine monitoring, optimal status monitoring and smart production processes possible. Initiate maintenance at an early stage, monitor your entire production line and ensure seamless processes.


  • Positioning: Smart tracking solutions enable you to keep track of goods and raw materials from incoming goods inspection and stock management to the finished product. Our IoT offerings optimize intralogistics and facilitate indoor navigation, including autonomous transportation systems.


  • Digital Twin: Recognize problems and solve them before they occur by means of anomaly detection. Test new processes virtually in order to implement them optimally. Do it by using a real object’s digital twin. That’s how Industry 4.0’s Smart Factory of tomorrow helps prevent misinvestments and outages.
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Manage Resources Sustainably


  • Resource & Energy Management: Be it by means of smart sensors that facilitate condition monitoring and help improve the energy efficiency in buildings or of remote monitoring that saves employees time during maintenance, with our IoT solutions you will deploy resources and energy optimally.


  • E-Charging: Electromobility on your production site will give your sustainability a boost. Charging points enable you to use eco-friendly electric vehicles. M2M communication between charging points and the cloud ensure constant energy monitoring and transparent power consumption.

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Workforce Enablement


  • Pick-by Order Picking: From Pick-by-Vision to Pick-by-Voice and beyond, smart Pick-by methods provide employees – and not just in logistics – with all the important information they need at the point of use. Our technology helps to make processes simpler for people so they can cope with growing complexity and increasing speed.


  • Guided Workers: Our solutions can assist employees in the Smart Factory, and not just with order picking. Using connected smart systems, for example, they receive all key information on-screen during production, enabling them to perform work steps swiftly and in an ideal way.

E-Book: People in Manufacturing Industry


E-Book: People in Manufacturing Industry

More automation, productivity, energy efficiency and sustainability: How digital transformation boosts employee satisfaction and corporate success.

The form section for the download, the following communication and the e-book are in German.

Download e-book now

More automation, productivity, energy efficiency and sustainability: How digital transformation boosts employee satisfaction and corporate success.

The form section for the download, the following communication and the e-book are in German.

Download e-book now

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Examples of our satisfied customers

IoT and Smart Manufacturing: Competitive advantages through digital business models

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A Strong Partner for All Your IoT Projects

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From a one-stop shop we provide you with all the components you need in order to integrate the Internet of Things successfully into your company – transparently and in a modular and user-friendly way. We are your ideal partner: from consulting and connection to our powerful IoT Cloud to system integration and choosing the right hardware, such as Low Cost Tracker and barcode scanners from Zebra Technologies.

Benefit from our partner network, our first-class connectivity and customized tariffs, advanced infrastructure services such as 5G campus solutions, and unlimited interoperability. Together we will work out which challenges you face and we will look after the rest, be it orchestration or all-inclusive management. So that you can launch your IoT project at minimal effort and expense and scale it flexibly in the future.

Our Promise to You

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One Partner for Everything

We are a one-stop source for all the components you need to integrate the Internet of Things
 

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Optimal Price-Performance Ratio

We offer modular, individual configuration and usage-based payment model
 

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Highest Data Security

Thanks to German and European data centers your machine, process and customer data is optimally protected
 

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Best in Class Reliability

Our solutions offer high availability, are resilient and work flawlessly even under maximum load and adverse conditions
 

We are at your service!


We are at your service!

We support manufacturers in implementing their IoT solution correctly and efficiently so that they can continue to offer future-proof products even the day after tomorrow.

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We support manufacturers in implementing their IoT solution correctly and efficiently so that they can continue to offer future-proof products even the day after tomorrow.

Marco Fiene – Your consultant for the Manufacturing industry

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Marco Fiene

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