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Hardware & Software
Optimize production KPIs
Reduce energy costs
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Fast production data acquisition, real-time analytics and tools to optimize your production KPIs. Leverage production data across your company to boost efficiency, sustainability and competitiveness.
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Rather make data-driven decisions & extract the maximum from your current shopfloor.
NextFab brings the data from all your machines, production lines, factory sites and shifts together on a holistic, flexible platform and enables your employees to make smart data-driven decisions.
NextFab provides the basis for a more efficient production, minimal downtime, energy cost savings and comprehensive digital optimization of your factory.
NextFab Smart Factory generates a digital twin of your factory & provides you full transparency across machines, production lines & factory sites. It monitors the energy consumption data of your assets and enables you take direct measures based on data, to increase productivity.
Monitor the operational status of every machine integrated in NextFab. The live status is shown as “Running,” “Idle,” “Offline,” or “Error.” In combination with an MES system, you can link this data to the worklist (WIP) to analyze & improve overall production efficiency.
The uptime of each machine is automatically tracked to calculate machine availability. This allows you to quickly see when which machine is available for operation. Machine availability can also be used to calculate the return on investment (ROI) of your machines.
NextFab enables you to make data-driven decisions based on information derived from monitoring machine data. Significantly improve your productivity (on average 30%) by specifically identifying bottlenecks in production and allocating resources in a more optimized way.
Increase the availability of your machines by being able to identify and evaluate causes of downtime with NextFab and fix the corresponding problems. Reduce downtime = increase throughput.
NextFab connects all your production sites on one industrial data platform — it allows you to monitor their performance and easily replicate new factory sites including its machines with minimum installation effort. This reduces the friction of scaling NextFab IIoT to further locations drastically.
Want to know how efficiently your shifts are working with just a few clicks? With NextFab, you can map all shifts and then filter, benchmark and optimize them. As soon as a shift is created, its data is automatically available to your organization for analytics, dashboards and reports.
Consolidates health data of all your machines on one single, easy to use interface. Display when each asset is due for maintenance. Apply smart filters, to intelligently combine maintenance by manufacturers, factory sites, production lines & urgency and eliminate unnecessary downtime due to uncoordinated maintenance.
Automate processes with no code. Use the data from your machines to create useful automation modules to trigger targeted actions such as notifications or interactions with external enterprise application and systems.
Get instant feedback on what is happening in your production. Regardless of whether a maintenance is due, a machine-specific threshold has been exceeded or a custom automation has fired. With NextFab's rule engine, the relevant employees get notified immediately. Also via external messaging apps your team uses.
Notifications can always be used to immediately inform the right employees about key events in production. Unnoticed downtime during the night shift is therefore a thing of the past.
Utilize your production data in almost any enterprise application. Break up data silos & make good use of your machine data in apps & systems your team likes the most.
NextFab provides harmonized data from your shopfloor in a structured and contextualized way, so you can integrate and use them across your whole organisation (e.g. ERP, BI, MES, ...).
NextFab provides you with smart energy modules, which seamlessly integrate into your smart factory. NextFab Smart Energy can be upgraded to your platform at any time.
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Monitor the energy consumption of all machines in your factory & use the data seamlessly. If some of your assets don't yet provide energy measurement data, you can upgrade them with a NextFab Energy Kit.
Get a clear overview of the energy consumption of your machines. Monitor energy flows live, create energy balances of your production and use the data obtained to cut energy costs.
Based on individually set thresholds, NextFab can warn you in advance if peak loads are about to be exceeded unintentionally. With that insight, you can effectively counteract and save energy costs with just minor adjustments of your production schedule.
Thanks to differential current measurement, insulation measurement in accordance with DGUV V 3 can be carried out without shutting down your machines and therefore without stopping production. NextFab directly generates the finished test report, which is required for verification.
Do you want to dig deeper? Use NextFab's clean and structured database in combination with countless other enterprise apps related to energy management/ resource efficiency to optimize the use of resources even further.
NextFab can be retrofitted to any industrial machine — regardless of manufacturer, communication protocol & age. Standardised semantics and a library of pre-built connectors cut implementation effort to the minimum.
Set up connectivity, machine semantics & functions of your assets conveniently via the guided Semantic Manager interface. Use pre-built connector templates from our asset library, which greatly simplies the process.
Physically connect the NextBox to your machine & load the asset configuration file with all required settings. Instantly your machine turns into an interoperable Industry 4.0 asset.
As soon as your machine gets connected to your company network, it appears in your NextFab Smart Factory. It can now be onboarded via the Onboarding Wizard without any additional integration effort.
