Glass & Ceramics

Time series AI for smarter glass manufacturing

Request a Demo
Illustration

Glass, mirror and ceramic manufacturers face immense challenges in keeping the production costs down in a hyper competitive market. By improving process efficiencies and maintaining quality of the finished products, manufacturers can unlock huge potential in value creation and gain competitive advantage.

Time Series AI enables smarter operations across the glass manufacturing processes starting from batching and melting all the way to finishing and packaging lines. By ingesting the real time operational data, time series AI detects and classifies various operational deviations and alerts the operations team about any impending failure conditions. By directly interacting with the AI platform, the operations team is able to quickly identify, prioritize and resolve the critical issues in the plant.

Challenge

Avoid lost production from downtime

Challenge

Minimize quality rejects

Challenge

Enable smart manufacturing

Use cases

Use Case
Use Case

Annealing Lehr

Use Case

Annealing Lehr

  • Problem

    Unexpected failure of blower and heat exchange results in work stoppage & suboptimal quality of glass product.

  • Solution

    Monitor equipment and sensor data to predict imminent component failures

  • Benefits

    Prevent time lost due to unplanned downtimes. Avoid production losses cascading to downstream processes.

Use Case
Use Case

Cooling Table

Use Case

Cooling Table

  • Problem

    Nonsynchronous and stuck rollers scratch the glass sheet and introduce surface defects

  • Solution

    Analyze machine and production data to identify motor-roller anomalies and provide alerts before quality is compromised.

  • Benefits

    Convert reactive/preventive to predictive maintenance of rollers, minimize quality defects

Use Case
Use Case

Stacking & Packaging

Use Case

Stacking & Packaging

  • Problem

    Malfunctioning stacking robots and transporting lines cause damage to finished products.

  • Solution

    Early detection of anomalies in finishing operations enables predictive maintenance.

  • Benefits

    Reduced incidence of damage to finished products.

Case Study

Case study

Find out how a leading steelmaker leveraged Falkonry to analyze data from multiple sources, identify failure patterns and provide alerts 7 days before a pinch roll fails, thus maximizing the asset uptime.

What our customers say

"With our asset performance management solution, powered by Falkonry’s Operational AI, Ternium operations teams receive actionable warnings before an event could impact the business."

Roberto Demidchuk

Chief Information Officer at Ternium

Resources

Take the next step

Implementing Smart with Falkonry is easy. Connect with one of our experts for a live demo.