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Smart Manufacturing Simplified
EDGE2WEB SMART MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS – FACTORY INSIGHTS AND EASYEDGE2WEB – ARE EASY TO CONFIGURE, FAST TO DEPLOY, AND LIMITLESS IN SCALE. START WITH BUILT-IN KPIS, VISUALIZATIONS, AND AI ASSISTANTS, THEN USE POWERFUL NO-CODE/LOW-CODE TOOLS TO GIVE YOUR SHOP FLOOR TEAMS EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO MAKE BETTER, FASTER DECISIONS.
Pinpoint and fix the primary causes of unplanned downtime.
Use data-driven quality metrics and AI to build better products.
Use OEE and TEEP to improve operating efficiencies.
Instant insights, AI assistance, unlimited growth
Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions enable you to:
- Easily connect to your factory devices and protocols
- Securely transmit factory data to the cloud at scale
- Instantly gain critical production insights using high-powered KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards
- Create custom analytics, data visualizations, and applications using advanced no-code and optional low-code tools
Edge2Web’s AI Assistant empowers your manufacturing leaders to create AI-driven guidance based on your unique expertise and best practices.
Easily acquire machine, process, and context data from your factory systems using advanced edge connectivity.
Deliver critical performance KPIs that your shop floor teams will intuitively understand and use.
Enable your data engineers and app developers to create custom applications for users at all levels of your company.
Empower your factory domain experts to create AI assistants that guide shop floor users to make better, faster decisions.
Edge2Web Factory Insights
Factory Insights is a compact, composable SaaS manufacturing intelligence solution that gives your shop floor teams instant visibility into asset availability, unplanned downtime, product quality, asset performance, and production capacity. Factory Insights includes pre-built scorecards and dashboards for leading KPIs such as OEE, TEEP, and MTBF/MTTR.
Fast and easy to deploy, Factory Insights includes built-in AI Assistants and powerful tools your manufacturing leaders can use to create custom AI Assistants for operators, supervisors, and other end users.
Factory Insights also includes Edge2Web Power Tools, a no-code solution that allows plant engineers to rapidly build custom KPIs and visualizations for energy utilization, cost analysis. scheduling, and many other use cases. And you can optionally add Edge2Web Director, an advanced low-code application development solution, for ultimate programmability and integration.
Factory Insights AI Assistants guide your operations teams to make better, faster decisions
Intro to the Factory Insights AI Assistant
Get A Free Factory Insights Sandbox
Take Factory Insights for a test drive! No costs. No time-consuming POCs. No commitments.
Your Factory Insights sandbox is a managed SaaS application, including simulated production data, that allows you to explore the KPI computations, visualizations, and no-code productivity features of Edge2Web Factory Insights without having to deploy the application at your site:
- Settings – learn how Factory Insights can be quickly configured to work in your shop, using your team’s terminology, downtime reasons, machine groupings, shift schedules, and KPI goals.
- Scorecards and Dashboards – the sandbox’s simulated factory data allows you to instantly explore KPI scorecards and dashboards used by manufacturing leaders worldwide – OEE, OOE, TEEP, MTBF/MTTR, Pareto, and more.
- Operator Inputs – learn how you can enable authorized shop floor operators to manually adjust machine downtime reasons and product quality counters, with built-in audit logging.
- Power Tools for Non-programmers – data analysts, process engineers, and other non-programmers love Edge2Web Power Tools (EPT) for creating custom KPI computations and visualizations. EPT is included for free with all Factory Insights subscriptions.
- AI Assistance – experience built-in AI Assistants and powerful tools your manufacturing leaders can use to create custom AI Assistants for operators, supervisors, and other end users.
Best of all, your Factory Insights sandbox allows you to explore before you invest. Simply sign-in to your sandbox and test drive the leading smart manufacturing solution available today!
EasyEdge2Web for Factory Insights
EasyEdge2Web combines Edge2Web Factory Insights with EasyEdge, a leading industrial data acquisition and edge computing solution. EasyEdge2Web’s data collection service deploys at the factory edge and can be quickly configured to acquire data from popular devices and protocols including Modbus, PROFINET IO, Siemens S7, OPC UA, OPC DA, and many others. Data can be contextualized and integrated at the edge, then transmitted securely to AWS IoT SiteWise in the cloud.
EasyEdge2Web significantly reduces the time, cost, and complexity required to implement an end-to-end greenfield smart factory solution.
EasyEdge2Web Solution Brief
Factory Edge Data Acquisition
Collect, process, and transmit production data to the cloud using EasyEdge2Web’s simple, powerful data acquisition services. EasyEdge2Web deploys in minutes to your AWS edge tier and quickly connects to all of your devices and plant protocols. Your control engineers will love EasyEdge2Web’s no-code orchestration tools for cleaning, integrating, and contextualizing data before sending it to the cloud. EasyEdge2Web gives you a comprehensive data acquisition service that can be securely scaled to meet current and future smart factory needs.
Edge2Web Smart Manufacturing Solution Benefits
Easily acquire machine, process, and context data from your factory devices and protocols using advanced edge connectivity services. Process data on the edge before sending securely it to AWS IoT SiteWise in the cloud.
Deliver critical performance KPIs that your shop floor teams will intuitively understand and use. By using your existing terminology and processes, Edge2Web solutions minimize roll-out time, training, and disruption.
Enable your data engineers and app developers to create custom applications for users at all levels of your company. Use built-in no-code tools to quickly create custom formulas, scorecards, and dashboards
Empower your factory domain experts to create AI assistants that guide shop floor users to make better, faster decisions. Use built-in AI Assistant builders to create custom GenAI conversations based on your tribal knowledge and best practices.
Use edge data processing to condition and enrich your factory data. Integrate data from devices, protocols, ERP, QMS, Scheduling, Tracking, and other plant systems to create a contextualized data foundation.
Store your factory data in AWS IoT SiteWise, a leading industrial cloud data management service. Use your data for Edge2Web smart manufacturing while making it accessible to an extensive ecosystem of popular tools and apps.
From factory to edge to cloud, your data never leaves your control using Edge2Web solutions. Data is encrypted in-flight and at-rest, and policy-based controls ensure that your teams access data and applications that are aligned with their roles.
Edge2Web solutions are integrated with AWS IoT SiteWise, a leading cloud service for managing industrial data at scale. And Edge2Web's browser-based architecture scales from small teams to global, multi-side operations with thousands of users.
Edge2Web Smart Manufacturing FAQs
Where will our data be stored when we use Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions?
Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions read your factory data from – and write data to – AWS IoT SiteWise, a leading industrial cloud service. SiteWise is a secure, scalable IIoT service that runs in your AWS account – so you data is always under your custody. A powerful benefit of storing your data in SiteWise is the flexibility to use your data with analytics, machine learning, AI, and other cloud services. You have control of your data, and the flexibility to use it with Edge2Web solutions and with other high-value industrial services.
How will we collect our factory data and send it to the cloud?
If you are using AWS IoT SiteWise for the first time, the fastest, easiest way to get your factory data to the cloud is EasyEdge2Web for Factory Insights. EasyEdge2Web includes a powerful solution called EasyEdge that quickly connects to your control devices and protocols, collects and processes data from your factory systems, and transmits it securely to your AWS IoT SiteWise cloud service.
If you are a already using SiteWise and have an existing data acquisition solution in place, no problem – simply use Edge2Web Factory Insights alongside your current data collection infrastructure to compute and visualize core performance KPIs from your SiteWise data.
Which KPIs are tracked and visualized by Edge2Web out-of-the-box?
Edge2Web Factory Insights and EasyEdge2Web compute and visualize a wide range of manufacturing performance KPIs including overall OEE, TEEP, asset availability and downtime, product quality, performance, MTBF/MTTR, and more. KPIs are reported by asset, cell, line, area, and site, and can also track performance by product, work order, custom asset groups, and other useful contexts. Each Edge2Web scorecard and dashboard includes an AI Assistant that summarizes the relevant performance metrics and highlights opportunities for improvement.
Edge2Web solutions can be easily configured to use your site’s asset groups, downtime reasons, shift schedules, performance goals, user roles, and other operating variables. Your shop floor teams will instantly understand Edge2Web analytics and visualizations because they are based on terminology and practices you already use, enabling you to deploy Edge2Web quickly and with minimal disruption.
Can we create our own KPI formulas and visualizations?
Yes, Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions include Edge2Web Power Tools (EPT), enabling authorized users to quickly create custom KPI formulas and visualizations for end users at all levels of your company. EPT’s no-code model allows authorized plant engineers, data analysts, quality analysts, and other non-programmers to quickly create custom analytics and visualizations, and add those custom pages to end user app menus.
For existing SiteWise users, EPT also supports migration of operational dashboards created in the AWS IoT SiteWise Monitor, enabling you to run those dashboards off-console alongside your other Edge2Web managed services.
You can also add Edge2Web Director to your Factory Insights or EasyEdge2Web account for ultimate programmability. Director is a powerful option for integrating your smart factory apps with other related systems and datastores.
Can we create our own GenAI Assistants using Edge2Web?
Yes, Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions include powerful tools that enable factory experts to create custom AI Assistants and make them available to shop floor end users. Authorized users can upload existing documents (service records, troubleshooting guides, work instructions, etc.) to the AI knowledgebase and train the AI Assistant to produce end user guidance that is operationally and situationally helpful.
Watch this short video for an introdustion to using GenAI services in Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions.
What are the primary benefits of Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions?
Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions help you measurably improve operating performance:
- Reduce unplanned asset downtime to keep production moving
- Improve product quality
- Optimize production capacity, planning, and scheduling
- Create custom formulas and visualizations using built-in no-code tools, and add powerful low-code tools for ultimate programmability
- Use built-in AI Assistants for deeper analytic insights and build custom Assistants for your specific needs
Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions are easy to configure and fast to deploy, allowing you to start small, iterate quickly, and scale on demand.
Do Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions comply with AWS best practices?
Yes. All Edge2Web solutions have been reviewed and approved as well-architected offerings via the AWS Foundational Technical Review process. This designation ensures you that Edge2Web conforms to AWS best practices in product development and devops, security, performance, delivery, and support processes.
Which Edge2Web smart manufacturing solution is right for us?
If you are using AWS IoT SiteWise for the first time, EasyEdge2Web for Factory Insights is your best choice. EasyEdge2Web is an integrated, end-to-end smart factory solution that includes everything you need.
If you are a already using SiteWise and have an existing data acquisition solution in place, use Edge2Web Factory Insights alongside your current data collection infrastructure to compute and visualize core performance KPIs from your SiteWise data.
What is the pricing structure for Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions?
Edge2Web Factory Insights is priced by the number of unique users who access the application each month. The model includes an annual contract for a defined number of users, and monthly overage fees for users above the contracted level.
EasyEdge2Web for Factory Insights includes the same user-based pricing as Factory Insights, and adds fees for data acquisition, processing, and transmission to the cloud.
Pricing for Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions does not include costs for AWS IoT SiteWise and Amazon S3, which are charged directly to customers by AWS.
Visit the Edge2Web Factory Insights listing on the AWS Marketplace.
Visit the EasyEdge2Web for Factory Insights listing on the AWS Marketplace.
How can we learn more about Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions?
The fastest way to learn more about Edge2Web smart manufacturing solutions is to schedule an in-depth demo with our team. In under one hour, we can help you learn about product capabilities, scoping a PoC, and putting your team on the fast track to improved operating performance.
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Edge2Web’s end-to-end smart manufacturing solutions enable you to quickly and inexpensively gain critical performance metrics from your shop floor data. In one week you can acquire data from your factory devices and protocols; configure KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards; and deliver actionable knowledge to users at all levels of your company. Edge2Web solutions scale easily from a single line to global, multi-site operations. Fast ROI. Minimal disruption. Unlimited upside.
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