How to Profit from IoT (Internet of Things)
Is there profit to be made from IoT? Is it right for your business? Join us for an accessible overview of IoT in manufacturing environments.
Find out if you should be looking more closely at IoT for your company, what it costs, and how to get started.
Targeted to senior-level managers, whether you know a little or a lot about IoT -- or even nothing at all -- this presentation will get you smart, fast.
You’ll get answers to these questions and more:
1. What is IoT?
2. Should I consider IoT for my business?
3. What is an example of an IoT manufacturing solution and how does it work?
4. Can I afford it, can I do it internally, and where do I start?
Takeaways:
You’ll come away from this webinar with a better awareness and understanding of how IoT initiatives can drive profit for your manufacturing company. You’ll receive expert tips and tricks gleaned from experts in the software and IoT industry that will help you avoid making big mistakes. And you’ll learn how to select the IoT initiatives that are most likely to make a difference, and a profit, for your company.
2. INTRODUCTION
Ectobox, Inc.
IoT experts that provide consulting, services, and product solutions
that improve our clients' competitive position.
412-923-3002 x 1003
inquiries@ectobox.com
3. INTRODUCTION
Ectobox, Inc.
We help manufacturing companies increase their competitive advantage.
We do that with IoT solutions that, among other things:
• reduce costs of services
• reduce unplanned downtime
• create new revenue opportunities
412-923-3002 x 1003
inquiries@ectobox.com
4. AGENDA
1. What is IoT?
2. Why do IoT?
3. Example
4. How to do IoT
5. Do it Yourself?
6. Can I Afford IoT?
7. Where to Start?
8. Q&A
5. WHAT IS IOT
Have you seen the IBM Watson elevator
commercial? It’s a pretty good definition of
IoT.
To paraphrase the commercial, imagine an
elevator repairman walks up to the security
desk, and says “I am here to repair your
elevator.” The security guard looks, and says,
“Our elevator is working fine.” The security
guard says that he has sensor readings that
say otherwise and it needs repair soon
before catastrophe.
IoT can take data from systems and provide
valuable information like predicting when an
issue is going to occur well before it occurs,
alert the right people about the issue, and
then ensure the issue is fixed.
That is IoT.
6. WHAT IS IOT
IoT = Internet of Things
• Data from sensors
• Over the Internet
• Transformed into valuable
information
• Enables powerful business
outcomes
7. WHAT IS IOT
• Converts physical action and data into digital data
• Allows people to monitor and manage activities
• Dashboards, alerts, analyses and reports
• Collection of technologies, supports business goals
• Different than IT data
8. WHAT IS IOT
• Converts physical action and data into digital data
A sensor detects a certain type of activity on a piece of equipment.
That “activity” is transformed into a digital signal, and then sent over
the wire to a collection point, and then pushed on into the IoT
software platform.
That data and all the other data values are then transformed into
useful information in the IoT software platform
• Allows people to monitor and manage activities
• Dashboards, alerts, analyses and reports
• Collection of technologies, supports business goals
• Different than IT data
9. WHAT IS IOT
• Converts physical action and data into digital data
• Allows people to monitor and manage activities
A few quick examples of IoT:
• IoT solutions allows companies to monitor and manage activities
in various areas of the business, such as the condition of machines
• IoT allows physicians to monitor the heart beats and respiration of
babies in home, and allows parents a warm home environment to
allow babies to develop.
• IoT can tell you what food is in your refrigerator and automatically
orders missing items from your grocery store for delivery.
• Dashboards, alerts, analyses and reports
• Collection of technologies, supports business goals
• Different than IT data
10. WHAT IS IOT
• Converts physical action and data into digital data
• Allows people to monitor and manage activities
• Dashboards, alerts, analyses and reports
Some of the most common ways a person will interface
with IoT is through dashboards, alerts, analyses and
reports, or receiving services.
• Collection of technologies, supports business goals
• Different than IT data
11. WHAT IS IOT
• Converts physical action and data into digital data
• Allows people to monitor and manage activities
• Dashboards, alerts, analyses and reports
• Collection of technologies, supports business goals
In the end IoT for our conversation is a collection of
technologies which supports business goals for
manufacturing companies and other industrial companies.
• Different than IT data
12. WHAT IS IOT
• Different than IT data
IoT data is very simple. Only a few columns of data: value from a sensor
like temp, humidity, vibration; time/date stamp; tag defining machine and maybe
location, that’s it.
However there is often immense amounts of data because values are
gathered and often stored multiple times per second, per minute, per hour, and
coming from many machines. The data is stored in single tables within databases
that are built to allow fast storage and retrieval of this data.
IT data is vastly different
Data is stored in multiple tables with many fields or columns per table.
Those tables store data about many different types of concepts or objects in the
real world, as well as data to support the business applications. That data is stored
in multiple databases that map to various business applications.
13. EXAMPLES
Amazon Dash button, the iBeacon, Asset Tracking,
Maintenance and condition-based monitoring by service
department.
14. EXAMPLES
My favorite: the Amazon Cheez-it dash button. These buttons
are linked to your account, and with the simple press of this button,
you know you’ll never run out of Cheez-its.
18. ARCHITECTURE
Security
Once you have converted data from the equipment with
sensors into valuable information in the cloud, then you
can push that information up to any device you need.
That’s where the valuable information is pushed to the
users, and where the real value conversion happens.
.
19. IOT MARKET
Big Market, Big Opportunities for Business Outcomes
31 Billion
Connected Devices
By 2020
$11T
Industry
$3.7T
Economic Impact
In Mfg
20. WHY IOT
46%
Evaluating
and/or Investing
in IoT Pilots
75%
Expect to Invest
in IoT in the
next 12 months!
IOT IS RAPIDLY BEING ADOPTED
Source: LNS Research 2016Source: Penton Media 2017
86%
of pilot IoT
projects met or
exceeded
expectations
Source: Penton Media 2017
21. WHY DO IOT?
Business Goals
• Lower costs
• Increase productivity
• New revenue
• Increase competitive advantage
Existing Systems
• ERP, MES, CMMS, PLM
IoT
• New data for
new levels of insights
Pen &
Paper
ERP,
MES
Data
Driven
Culture
Lean,
Six
Sigma
IoT
22. WHY DO IOT?
Examples of Why
• Higher asset utilization
• Reduce costs
• New revenue
• New business models
23. WHY DO IOT?
Higher Asset Utilization
• $65B Automation systems reaching end-of-life
• Average age of equipment in US is highest since 1938
• <5% Revenue is spent on investments in capital equipment
• 4 in 10 Manufacturers have little to no visibility into real-time
status of manufacturing processes.
• 50% Manufacturers become aware of a problem only after a
breakdown occurs.
* Sources: ARC, Morgan Stanley, Ubisense, ManufacturingNet.net
24. WHY DO IOT?
Higher Asset Utilization
* Eruditio LLC, Failure curves and P-F intervals linked and explained
26. EXAMPLE
• Manufacture equipment at plants around the US
• Service group
• Monitor the equipment in the field
• Proactive/predictive services, better client relationships, drive
new sales for their products, drive more revenue from service.
30. HOW TO DO IOT?
Start with
• Culture of data driven decisions
• Process
• Team
• Expertise
• Budget
• Sponsor
31. HOW TO DO IOT?
Start with
• Culture of data driven decisions
Critical piece is the culture of data driven decisions. Is a
company getting key information in the hands of people and those
people are making decisions and driving actions based on that data to
make the company better.
If a company is still using paper and whiteboards to look at
data about the company, and they aren’t driving action from data, then
IoT might not be a fit yet.
IoT brings more data to the plate. If a company isn’t using their
existing data, IoT data will simply be overwhelming.
If they don’t have a data driving culture or capabilities, we
could help with that.
32. HOW TO DO IOT?
Start with
• Culture of data driven decisions
• Process
A company should have a proven process for implementing
an IoT project. Processes are important for the success of projects.
33. HOW TO DO IOT?
Start with
• Culture of data driven decisions
• Process
• Team
Having the right team is a really big part of a successful IoT
project. Typical projects should have:
Solution Architect, Software Engineer, Data Scientist,
Embedded Developer, IT Administrator, UI/UX Designer,
Mechatronics Engineers
34. HOW TO DO IOT?
Start with
• Culture of data driven decisions
• Process
• Team
• Expertise
Expertise with past IoT projects is also really important.
Success in any venture is often ensured when someone can steer
clear of major issues and delays, where they’ve been there and done
that before.
35. HOW TO DO IOT?
Start with
• Culture of data driven decisions
• Process
• Team
• Expertise
• Budget
• Sponsor
You need someone sufficiently high in the organization that can make
that budget available, clear the roadblocks, pull together people from different
departments to work as a team, and hold everyone accountable to make sure it
all gets done.
That’s a lot to start with.
36. HOW TO DO IOT?
Next Steps
• Identify issue to tackle
• Business case
• Planning
• Proof of Concept
• MVP
• Pilot
• Production
• Continue refining, and add IoT to other products
37. HOW TO DO IOT?
Next Steps
• Identify issue to tackle
Come up with a specific, narrow issue to tackle
38. HOW TO DO IOT?
Next Steps
• Identify issue to tackle
• Business case
Create a business case for the issue you’re tackling.
A business case is to understand the costs of the current
problem, how it’s holding the business back, have a theory or
hypothesis that if you were able to get certain data from the
equipment you would then be able to take some actions with certain
timing, and those actions would then save the company a certain
amount of money.
39. HOW TO DO IOT?
Next Steps
• Identify issue to tackle
• Business case
• Planning
Then create a plan for the PoC at the appropriate level
40. HOW TO DO IOT?
Next Steps
• Identify issue to tackle
• Business case
• Planning
• Proof of Concept
Keep in mind the PoC not big and complicated.
Also keep in mind a PoC is not the end solution.
It is simply a very small, very simple project to prove you
can pull a little bit of data, analyze it a little bit, and determine at a
basic level you can prove the business case.
41. DO MYSELF?
Do you have?
• Process
• Expertise
• Team
A successful project of any type, include IoT projects, need people with
knowledge and experience to get the job done right, and a team of individuals
You trust to execute your project according to established processes.
42. CAN I AFFORD IOT?
Assessment/Visioning: ~$4,000 - $10,000
Proof of Concept: ~$5,000 - $50,000
MVP: Varies
Pilot: Varies
Production: Varies
43. WHERE TO START?
Start here
• Data driven culture
• Team
• Expertise
• IoT project processes
• Planning: Define problem to solve, Create the business case, Plan
the project
• Proof of Concept
• Review value and success of Proof of Concept
• Iterate or Continue
44. INTERNET OF THINGS
We are Service and Sales partner of PTC on the ThingWorx platform, a major IoT
software platform that powers some of the biggest companies and their IoT efforts.
We also work with the Microsoft Azure IoT platform
And are certified IoT professionals.
47. INTERNET OF THINGS
Process
1. Free Consultation with Recommendations
2. Assessment and Visioning: Does IoT make
sense? Specific problem to start with,
Business case, Planning.
3. PoC: Prove the business case
4. Continue the Journey