Falkonry Clue on Azure: Time Series AI for Global Manufacturing Excellence
Key Takeaways
- Falkonry Clue is a plug-and-play AI solution for Industrial IoT that gets you from “zero-to-value” in 100 hours.
- Falkonry Clue leverages Azure IoT services to deliver a unified, aligned and integrated production experience on the factory floor.
- Falkonry Clue is now available via Microsoft AppSource providing a streamlined procurement process for an even quicker start.
With its vision of smarter connectivity and insights, the promise of Industrial IoT is compelling: to unlock hidden business value by bringing together machines, analytics, cloud computing, edge devices and people. The reality, though, is not so simple for most traditional manufacturers. To move from strategy to adoption, it is important to align and integrate the processes and equipment on the factory floor with organizational models that work.
Falkonry Clue on Azure simplifies many of the complexities of adopting time series AI. Clue is a plug-and-play, Software-as-a-Service solution based on an intelligence-first approach towards predictive operations. That is, driven by operational experts using AI-enriched insights from daily production data. Clue is optimized for Cloud computing for its cost effectiveness and ease of remote activation.
It is now easy to answer questions like these without relying on historical data or a team of data science experts:
- How to avoid production disruptions due to an unexpected equipment failure?
- How to prevent costly losses from late detection of a batch quality problem?
- When to schedule equipment maintenance to minimize unplanned downtime?
- How to get real-time visibility into the operational state of all the assets and processes in a plant?
Falkonry Clue’s automated, real-time insights can help manufacturing organizations realize higher gains from their Industrial IoT investments.
Clue also provides a way to capture expert knowledge by connecting engineering know-how with operational performance via an intuitive Web application, all without extensive training requirements.
“Zero-to-Value” in 100 hours
Effortless start-up and scale-up: that is what you get with Falkonry Clue on Azure.
Falkonry has designed the activation process to quickly and easily connect industrial data sources to Clue. This process requires just a few hours of help from the plant IT team. Once this connectivity is established and data flows to Falkonry for a few days, Clue starts to alert operations teams about potential production issues. With these alerts as a starting point, operational experts are able to review the production data for root causes using the built-in visualizations. Important events can be documented and alerts integrated into the plant’s workflow. This results in a continuous improvement cycle that can be expanded to additional assets, plants and sites.
Getting started with Clue on Azure
Azure IoT provides a number of services to connect, monitor and control IoT assets. Falkonry leverages these services to create a scalable and reliable system that includes connectivity, processing, storage, container orchestration and database. Whether your organization uses SCADA systems, PLCs, historians, ERPs, MES systems, CMMS, IoT devices and sensors or some other information source – we have ensured that our solution is compatible and easily integrated.
- Clue receives operational data from the plant floor either over Azure IoT Hub or via Azure IoT Edge. We describe connecting your plant to Falkonry Clue in the article Getting Ready for Clue: Connecting Data Sources.
- Falkonry Clue stores IIoT data in Azure storage infrastructure and discovers unusual as well as adverse behavior patterns in IIoT data.
- Falkonry Clue automatically learns ordinary and adverse patterns and attaches these models to apply against real-time streaming data.
- Falkonry Clue Dashboard delivers new levels of operational insights to plant and corporate operational experts to operationalize process controls and make rapid decisions.
- Integrate Falkonry into flexible yet powerful BI dashboards to enable faster reporting to all levels of the plant.
Falkonry Clue is now available via Microsoft AppSource providing a streamlined process for procurement. Contact us to get a head start on your path to AI-enabled operational excellence with Falkonry Clue.
