Eviden's Smart Factory 3-Weeks Assessment

Manufacturing companies face critical challenges, including cost inflation, market volatility, supply chain disruption, skills gaps, and the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. These challenges make delivering the sustainable productivity improvements required to maintain profitability and investor returns more challenging than ever.

Eviden Smart Factory helps address manufacturing challenges with a tailored approach to building smart manufacturing capabilities that maximize value.

Our innovative solution portfolio can help you build a connected shop floor supported by the following technologies:

• Industrial data at scale: Standardized data models for immediate insights, unique data source policies for multiple use cases, and universal connection policies for consistent value.
• Digital twins: Ability to create virtual replicas of products and systems, monitoring, predictive maintenance, performance optimization, improved efficiency, cost reduction, and extended lifespans for physical assets.
• Secure industrial data and cybersecurity tools: Governance, risk, and compliance; operational technology security; identity and access management; zero-trust and cloud security consulting; penetration testing; incident response consulting.
• Edge computing: Advanced computing powers for any workload. BullSequana Edge Devices provides fast, on-site inference for edge vertical solutions, including infrastructure and computer vision with AI inference at the edge.
• Quality inspectors: Enhanced industrial data with AI-based quality indicators, including controls for assembly, surface defects, welding, inspection, and cosmetic quality using advanced technologies like augmented reality, x-ray testing, and digital twins.

Differentiators:

Eviden provides specialized industry 4.0 consulting and technology solutions across offering components.

• Industrial data at scale: By standardizing and scaling industrial processes across plants, we create a strong foundation for Eviden Smart Factory cross-plant scaling.
• 360-degree shop floor analytics: Our digital twin solutions enable more advanced cause-to-effect analysis and connect operational technology data to MES, ERP, and maintenance schedulers.
• Full security integration: Our cybersecurity solutions integrate multiple levels of segmentation, converged networking, secure SD-WAN, and comprehensive multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud security into a single platform to simplify operations, increase security, and reduce costs.
• AI-powered edge innovation: We use the latest technology for AI-powered quality inspections to detect defects and send real-time alerts across different scenarios.
• Quality and flexibility: Our flexible solutions seamlessly adapt to industrial infrastructure and policies, providing immediate data insights through standardized models and promoting widespread data usage.

Benefits:

• Reduction in inventory-holding costs
• Increase in labor productivity
• Reduction in machine downtime
• Throughput increase
• Improvement in forecasting accuracy
• Cost-of-quality improvement

Microsoft’s Added Value:

Eviden and Microsoft’s joint creation, Smart Factories, adds unique value to our offerings. Our combined expertise enables new manufacturing data solutions in Microsoft Fabric and helps you create Copilot templates for factory operations on Microsoft Azure AI.

• Advanced analytics and predictive maintenance: Integrating Azure machine learning modules and complex event processing unlocks predictive maintenance capabilities that help manufacturers predict future breakdowns and reduce unplanned downtime and maintenance costs.
• Comprehensive data services: Microsoft’s new manufacturing data solutions in Microsoft Fabric and Copilot templates for factory operations on Azure AI help unify and transform OT and IT data.
• Unified Data Foundation: Our solutions integrate data from IoT devices and enterprise systems and contextualize it for better analysis and innovation.
• Use of AI: The Copilot template on Azure AI enables natural language interaction for frontline workers, enhancing tasks like root-cause analysis and issue resolution.

*This pricing is for the initial assessment of 3 weeks; it excludes traveling if applicable. The pricing may vary depending on scope and customizations as requested by the customer