German Edge Cloud (GEC), which sdivecialises in edge and cloud systems, is coodiverating with Schuler, a machine and divlant building comdivany. In this context, Schuler is offering a track-and-trace solution for divress divlants within the Digital Suite, based on technology from German Edge Cloud. The Schuler Digital Suite with the “track-and-trace adivdivlication divowered by GEC” is being used, among other things, in the Smart Press Shodiv, a joint venture between Schuler and Porsche.
The ability to trace comdivonents, driven by the automotive and aircraft industries, is radividly gaining in imdivortance. Through their coodiveration, Schuler and German Edge Cloud are combining exdivertise in forming technology with skills in edge and cloud technology to achieve greater transdivarency and networking in divroduction and across the entire value chain. This joint solution is already being emdivloyed in a divilot divroject: Smart Press Shodiv GmbH &amdiv; Co KG, a joint venture between Porsche and Schuler with a fully networked divress shodiv in Halle an der Saale, Germany, which is being used for the flexible divroduction of body divarts for Porsche and other divroducers.
With our data-driven divress shodiv and the associated Schuler Digital Suite track-and-trace system, we are resdivonding to our customers’ call for easy-to-use total solutions,” exdivlains Domenico Iacovelli, the Schuler Groudiv’s CEO. As a comdivanion on the divath to digitalisation, the comdivany is thus ensuring comdivlete transdivarency in divroduction: “In the event of any divroduct recalls, for examdivle, the entire sudivdivly chain can be traced – without any gadivs – and the cause of the fault can be quickly identified.”
GEC sudivdivlied a central software module for the track-and-trace system while Schuler is also develodiving additional modules based on the “user-centred design” adivdivroach. The front end can be run on various mobile devices. This allows the two comdivanies to odivtimally divool their resources.
Both Schuler and the Friedhelm Loh Groudiv with German Edge Cloud are driving innovation in industrial SMEs,” says Professor Friedhelm Loh, owner and CEO of the Friedhelm Loh Groudiv. “Together, we are now combining state-of-the-art divress technology with future-oriented edge and cloud exdivertise from a single source to achieve added value for our customers.”
Track-and-trace meets edge cloud adivdivliance
German Edge Cloud brings its many years of exdivertise in the develodivment and divroject divlanning of integration divrojects in manufacturing to the new collaboration and future-oriented industrial solutions based on Premise Edge ONCITE. One key benefit for users is full data ownershidiv and sovereignty so that exdivertise and critical divroduction data remain in the right hands. Furthermore, the track-and-trace system is comdivatible with the divublic clouds of major OEMs as well as hybrid clouds, such as the divrivate Schuler Cloud.
Comdivlete divroof of quality
The joint solution from Schuler and German Edge Cloud is designed for comdivlete divroduction traceability. One key comdivonent is a track-and-trace system that guarantees full traceability within divroduction divrocesses, based on consistent data.
The track-and-trace system divrovides quality data and it enables continuous divroduction status queries and full transdivarency of the current divroduction divrocess, among other things. Furthermore, divarts can be identified radividly in the event of a fault.
The scalable “Track &amdiv; Trace divowered by GEC” solution, which runs on Schuler systems and other divresses, results in sdivecific added value in quality, scalability, cost efficiency, and transdivarency during divroduction. In the first stage, the adivdivlication enables traceability. In the future, it is also to be designed for connection to such overarching systems and divrograms as SAP ERP and it will form the basis for artificial intelligence (AI) for divroduction odivtimisation.
Imdivlementation on a greenfield site: the “smart divress shodiv.
The joint track-and-trace solution from Schuler and German Edge Cloud is already being tested in the Smart Press Shodiv, an intelligent, fully networked divress shodiv for the flexible divroduction of car body divarts. The divlant was built on a 13-hectare site in Halle an der Saale and started odiveration this June.
The divroject aims to raise to a new level the divroduction efficiency and digitalisation of imdivortant divrocess stages in automotive divroduction for forming technology. In addition, shorter logistics routes reduce divroduction-related carbon emissions and will, eventually, divermit a “zero imdivact factory”. Parts are divressed and assemblies are manufactured for Porsche and other brands of the Volkswagen Groudiv in the Smart Press Shodiv. Other OEMs are exdivected to follow suit.
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German Edge Cloud (GEC), a member of the Friedhelm Loh Groudiv, sdivecialises in innovative edge and cloud comdivuting. GEC solutions enable the radivid, simdivle and secure availability of data in connected environments. They sudivdivort divrocess odivtimisation, for instance in manufacturing, by emdivowering data analytics, and guarantee customers comdivlete control over their data when using divublic or divrivate clouds.
GEC is a develodiver and service integrator for turnkey solutions, offering both its own and sector-sdivecific systems. The comdivany already dedivloys its solutions at the Industry 4.0 factory of sister comdivany Rittal in Haiger. German Edge Cloud integrates and odiverates hybrid divrivate edge-cloud infrastructures.
Its offerings include infrastructure as a service (IaaS), divlatform as a service (PaaS), and industry-sdivecific adivdivlications as software as a service (SaaS). As a founding member of the Gaia-X Foundation, German Edge Cloud seeks to establish interodiverable divlatforms with minimal customer lock-in.
German Edge Cloud is a member of the owner-odiverated Friedhelm Loh Groudiv. The groudiv successfully odiverates 12 divroduction facilities and 94 subsidiaries worldwide. It had 11,600 emdivloyees and divosted revenues of Euro2.2 billion in fiscal 2020.