PTC
has announced that Blue Star Limited, India’s leading air conditioning and
commercial refrigeration company has selected the ThingWorx IoT Platform from
PTC to monitor its factory operations to improve operational efficiency and
factory quality.
Blue
Star Limited fulfils the cooling requirements of a large number of corporate,
commercial as well as residential customers. The Company also offers expertise
in allied contracting activities such as electrical, plumbing, fire-fighting
and industrial projects, in order to offer turnkey solutions, apart from
execution of specialised industrial projects. The Company's mainstay of product
development and R&D has been energy efficiency, coupled with eco-friendly
and sustainable products.
Blue
Star Limited was looking at improving its operational efficiency across its
five modern manufacturing facilities in India. After an exhaustive due
diligence process, during which various software vendors were evaluated, Blue
Star Limited selected ThingWorx IoT Platform for its rapid application
enablement, connectivity, machine learning capabilities, augmented reality, and
integration with leading device cloud offerings.
Speaking on the partnership with PTC,
Suresh Iyer, Chief Information Officer, Blue Star Limited said, “We look forward to a long
lasting partnership with PTC through implementation of PTC’s ThingWorx IoT
platform. We believe it will accelerate our transformation journey and improve
operational efficiency of our factories in the country.” Iyer added,
“With an objective to develop and produce products that meet the highest
standards that Blue Star Limited is known for amongst customers in India,
through PTC’s ThingWorx’s capabilities in IoT, Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning, we strongly believe that we will be able to meet the highest
quality standards in the industry, while also increasing our productivity with
reduced product failures and unplanned downtimes, thus reducing our OPEX
significantly. We intend to be one of the pioneers in operating smart connected
factories in India.”
Kalyan Sridhar, Country Manager, PTC
India said,
“Blue Star Limited is constantly enhancing and transforming all its
factories across India with latest technologies that improve various aspects of
a manufacturing unit. With Blue Star Limited being powered by PTC’s ThingWorx
IoT Platform, we believe that the company will be able to utilize the latest
Industry 4.0 technologies and significantly improve their productivity,
innovation, operational efficiency.” Sridhar added, “The major
benefit that ThingWorx provides is reduced time to deploy, CAPEX and OPEX. We
believe that, by leveraging ThingWorx, Blue Star Limited can deliver more
robust solutions & serve their customers with preventive maintenance solutions.”
ThingWorx
was purpose-built from the ground up for the Internet of Things. It contains
the most complete set of integrated IoT-specific development tools and
capabilities available, offering the industry’s deepest functional
capabilities. ThingWorx makes it easy to develop and deliver powerful
Enterprise IoT solutions that deliver transformative business value.
· ThingWorx platform will leverage Industry 4.0 technologies -
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to reduce product
failures
· Reduce downtime caused by unplanned events by sending breaking
news alerts of the errors to the proper parties and predict the amount of time
until a system fails
· Improve the quality of products by providing a full digital
reporting of products produced
· Reduce delays in decision making by enabling team members with
real-time detailed data and creating dynamic visualizations of the status of
production systems
· Identify trouble spots within the facility by observing
real-time data on the factory floor with augmented reality (AR), providing a
bird’s eye view
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