HIROTEC Selects ThingWorx Platform from PTC for Remote Monitoring and Real-Time Insight into its World-Wide Production Systems
June 07 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Visualizing Factories Decreases Downtime and
Improves Productivity
PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) today announced that HIROTEC Corporation, a
globally recognized manufacturing equipment and parts supplier,
selected the ThingWorx® Platform from PTC to remotely monitor its
factory operations to improve operational efficiency and factory
quality.
For over 60 years, top vehicle producers, such as Mazda and
General Motors, have relied upon HIROTEC for its proven,
high-quality automotive components and production machines. With 27
facilities in nine countries around the world, this parts and
tooling supplier designs and builds approximately 8 million
closures and 1.8 million exhaust systems each year, making it one
of the largest private production companies in today’s global
automotive market.
After an exhaustive due diligence process, during which dozens
of software vendors were evaluated, HIROTEC selected ThingWorx for
its rapid application enablement, connectivity, machine learning
capabilities, augmented reality, and integration with leading
device cloud offerings. ThingWorx is expected to:
- Reduce downtime caused by unplanned
events by sending breaking news alerts of the errors to the proper
parties and predicting the amount of time until a system fails
- Improve the quality of products by
providing a full digital reporting of products produced
- Reduce delays in decision making by
enabling team members with real-time detailed data and creating
dynamic visualizations of the status of production systems
- Identify trouble spots within the
facility by observing real-time data on the factory floor with
augmented reality (AR) providing a bird’s eye view
HIROTEC intends to set up a model production line this year and
then utilize this model to implement the system globally.
“With ThingWorx, we are able to combine HIROTEC’s expertise in
world class manufacturing with PTC’s extensive IoT solutions
ecosystem to bring rapid value to our stakeholders,” said Kazuyoshi
Takahashi, general manager, Advanced Engineering Center,
HIROTEC.
“The combination of ThingWorx with our existing production
systems offers us the connectivity and detailed analytics to
rapidly visualize and analyze our operations, enabling further
productivity and quality improvement,” said Justin Hester, senior
researcher, IT Lab, Advanced Engineering Center, HIROTEC. “We are
very pleased that we chose ThingWorx as we continue towards digital
excellence.”
“HIROTEC’s success with ThingWorx is an example of realizing
fast time to value with PTC Customer Success’ IoT enablement
services,” said Matt Cohen, executive vice president, customer
success, PTC. “By leveraging ThingWorx, HIROTEC can globally
deliver high-quality manufacturing services and more robust IoT
enabled solutions for their customers.”
HIROTEC America first implemented ThingWorx for full remote
visualization of the real-time status of 8 Computer Numerical
Control (CNC) Machines in 2016. With this success at HIROTEC
America, HIROTEC Corporation in Japan implemented ThingWorx for
full remote visualization of real-time and historical data from an
automated inspection system for exhaust lines in 2016. Then, in
2017, they deployed ThingWorx on an entire automotive door
production line. HIROTEC expects to implement AR and predictive
analytics technology in the future to further improve
productivity.
Additional Resources
- ThingWorx Internet of Things
Platform
- Harvard Business Review: "How Smart,
Connected Products are Transforming Companies," authors PTC CEO Jim
Heppelmann and Harvard Professor Michael Porter
- Case Study: HIROTEC Launches IoT
Initiative
About Hirotec
Hirotec Group is a leading tier-one component and tooling
supplier for the Automotive Industry, a $1.6 billion corporation
with over 60 years of mass production experience and engineering
discipline, supplying automobile manufacturers such as Mazda and
General Motors with automotive components and production solutions.
HIROTEC produces 8 million closures and 1.8 million exhaust systems
a year. They also provide production tooling and stamping dies to
automotive OEMs for their production needs.
About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)
PTC has the most robust Internet of Things technology in the
world. In 1986 we revolutionized digital 3D design, and in 1998
were first to market with Internet-based PLM. Now our leading IoT
and AR platform and field-proven solutions bring together the
physical and digital worlds to reinvent the way you create,
operate, and service products. With PTC, global manufacturers and
an ecosystem of partners and developers can capitalize on the
promise of the IoT today and drive the future of innovation.
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