The IIoT future is now!

By OEM Update Editorial June 12, 2018 3:46 pm IST

Arun Rao,
Director – Geo Strategic Operations & Alliances, Dassault Systèmes
With an integration of ‘digital continuity’, IIoT helps in creating a unique, authoritative and consistent source of data across the entire lifecycle as a product moves from concept to design, engineering, manufacturing, and post-sales service.

IIoT: Improving safety and efficiency
IIoT is considered as one of the primary trends affecting industrial businesses today. In order to be future ready, industries are pushing to modernise systems and equipment to meet new regulations, keep up with increasing market speed and volatility, and deal with disruptive technologies. Arun Rao, Director – Geo Strategic Operations & Alliances, Dassault Systèmes, informs, “Businesses that have embraced the IIoT have seen significant improvements in safety, efficiency, and profitability and this trend will continue as IIoT technologies are more widely adopted.”

IIoT elevates the making of informed business decisions by utilising the right concoction of planning, manufacturing and distribution information with higher degrees of intelligence, automation, and precision. Rao believes that the technology has strongly impacted the ‘global’ high-tech industry which has been facing rising demand variability and ever-shorter life cycles. He adds, “With an integration of ‘digital continuity’, IIoT helps in creating a unique, authoritative and consistent source of data across the entire lifecycle as a product moves from concept to design, engineering, manufacturing, and post-sales service.”

Dassault Systèmes is constantly working towards enabling high-tech companies with highly flexible manufacturing to achieve all the competitive benefits that IIoT has to offer through digitally integrating manufacturing planning, execution and demand planning on a single platform. The manufacturing industry will be able to accelerate the New Product Introduction (NPI) on a global scale with a very high quality initially and also a faster ramp up by eliminating delays for identification and containment of delays by 80 per cent.

This growth is clearly beneficial for manufacturers — it has been predicted that those businesses who do harness the power of IoT will be more profitable than those who don’t. In the near future, it is also estimated that majority of worldwide manufacturers will capture and analyse data using connected products. Rao explains, “As markets become increasingly competitive, such advantages of IIoT cannot be ignored and this is where the clear-cut advantages of using IIoT in a manufacturing business will come into the big picture.”

Industries that will drive IIoT adoption in 2018

Dassault’s preparedness in the area of IIoT
With IIoT now on the rise, Dassault Systèmes’ highly flexible manufacturing enables high-tech companies to fully integrate the IIoT opportunity through the digital amalgamation of manufacturing planning, execution and demand planning on a single platform. It delivers the production speed and agility required in today’s competitive and cost-sensitive markets.

Digital continuity provided by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform integrates the information contained in all the phases right from product creation to product operation and support. Pairing the real world data with scientifically accurate 3D models of the product- with the help of IIoT, Dassault Systemes monitor the real-time environment and predict its future state before it can further go in for 3D printing, thereby reducing cost all the more.

Since the number of industries that Dassault Systèmes delves into is very major, IIoT will eventually imbibe the much needed digital continuity which will further accentuate all the benefits that IIoT has to offer.