IoT Trends In Manufacturing

Internet of Things is a new growing trend, has widely gained popularity in all fields of life's; especially in the manufacturing industry. We can list the dreams of each manufacturer as follows; reduce process cost, fast deliveries, more production at the same time, fewer outages, customer satisfaction, remove bottlenecks in the supply chain, and inventory management. Implementing all the above improvements needs a lot of manpower to perform tasks which ultimately leads to high production costs. So, is there any way to make dreams true in a less-costly way? The answer is IoT, which makes this possible by providing communication between different types of equipment. Sensors, transmitters, redundant processors, signal transmitting modules, central processors, and distributed control systems continuously provide data to each other to get online data, analyze, forecast future actions, and take decisions as per requirements.

The question arises here why there is a need to invest such systems in the manufacturing industry? Due to the massive increase in population, there is always a mismatch of supply and demand which creates harsh competition to enter the market and to be the market leader. It is time for manufacturers to adopt such a system which is more capable of producing more as compared to the old days. The collected data is the backbone of IoT which comes from online sensors. This raw data needs to be sent to processors via transmitters to processed meaningful results for decision-makers. Processors read, analyze and produce process results as per algorithm design, and in the final stage such data and final results are stored on clouds from where the relevant persons may fetch that data by using dedicated IPs. At this stage, decision-makers are in a position to see this information from any corner of the world and able to make the decisions.