DEVELOPMENT OF IIOT PLATFORMS AS A TOOL FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES. OPEN INNOVATION AS AN FACILITATOR

Abstract

This work describes the experience of industrial digitalization in a food industry. The objective of this paper is to show the importance, and the way in which companies can enhance their innovative capacity by taking advantage of internal and external knowledge, working collaboratively between the company's own personnel and agents trained in industry 4.0 and agile methodologies. The technical proposal contains both hardware, software and digital services enabled for IoT (Internet of Things) that follow the key design principles of interoperability, flexibility, openness and as-a-service (SaaS). To carry out the project we used a cloud-based Siemens low code platform, and an industrial IoT gateway was installed for the hardware connection. The plataform Insight Hub from Siemens (previusly Mindsphere) can be connected to peripheral tools, such as Telegram and Grafana, to expand the services offered according to customer requirements, for example, sending alerts via Telegram. Currently, the case is in the stage of evolution from descriptive analytics, towards prescriptive analytics with favorable results oriented to the company's objectives. Among which are the dashboards that allow visual management of production in real time. Finally, the acceptance of this digital transformation was accompanied by the implementation of the co-creation methodology where people involved are actively linked in the design of the solution.