Product overview

IBM® Plant Performance Analytics delivers a predictive solution for the manufacturing industries to maximize operational effectiveness.

Manufacturing industry relies extensively on equipment for the manufacturing process. Faults in such machinery can create a faulty product or can bring production to a halt and has a direct result on plant efficiency, machinery utilization, and the return on investment.

Equipment that is used in the manufacturing process, for example, robots, clamps, and welding guns, generate event data, torque data, cycle length, and parametric data. Plant Performance Analytics performs an analysis on this data to highlight areas of concern and to predict where problems can occur in the future. The predictions highlight the potential losses due to downtime, operational quality, and performance. Once a problem is identified, remedial action can be carried out during the available maintenance time slots.

IBM Plant Performance Analytics is part of the suit IBM IoT for Manufacturing. The sophisticated predictive and prescriptive analytics offered, based on industry models, can increase efficiency and lower the cost of production. Plant Performance Analytics turns plant floor data into insights that can transform the manufacturing plant floor from a digital darkness to visible, predictable and closed loop operations.

These insights help the plant, quality, and maintenance managers take timely action that maximizes and maintains plant operational effectiveness.

IBM Plant Performance Analytics is applicable across domains.