SMARTFACTORIES
Turbo-boost the productivity in your factory!
Your customers are becoming more demanding all the time when it comes to your products and services. Creating value for your customers and your employees is more important than ever, especially due to factors such as the increasing competitive pressure, a growing shortage of qualified staff, continuously decreasing product life cycles and stricter laws and regulations.
Digitising your processes is the key to responding adequately and soundly to this constantly changing environment by means of data. But where do you start?
Help me define a digital transformation strategy!
Schedule a no-obligation two-hour intake with our business consultant Smart Factories, discuss your top three use cases and benefit from our IT/OT assessment approach.
1. PROFITABILITY
Continuously strengthening your profitability and making it more sustainable through effective and efficient processes. OrangeNXT helps you identify opportunities to improve productivity and achieve qualitative growth in volume, revenue and margins.
2. AGILITY
The continuous changes in the supply chain require agility and resilience in order to ensure consistent quality and delivery. OrangeNXT offers you the KPIs that provide you with insight into the supply chain performance, enabling you to anticipate.
3. SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability is a competitive advantage when it comes to positioning your organisation and attracting young talent. OrangeNXT is fully committed to the energy transition and is building a smart bridge between supply and demand in decentralised generation.
PEOPLE | DEVICES | DATA
Our solutions provide an accessible growth path, strengthen the existing applications and systems and are extremely user-friendly, allowing your employees to immediately experience the added value and embrace the technology.
mobileNXT
The mobileNXT solution runs safely online and offline on both iOS and Android hardware, which we use to digitise the work of operators, mechanics, team leaders and production managers.
conNXT
digitalNXT
Our digitalNXT solutions harness the potential of the existing structured and unstructured data from the various sources inside and outside your organization in order to automate your processes smartly, including cognitive search and image recognition:
A succesful transformation
in 4 steps!
SMARTFACTORIES combines ICT Group’s years of experience in production and logistics automation into a single integrated approach for plant directors, enabling them to transform quickly and successfully.
Connect
The first step is a clear vision on digital transformation. ICT Group’s consultancy services develops and implements digital strategies in an implementation roadmap.
Collect
As a follow-up to this top-down approach, the support among your people is crucial. In one or more 20-day challenges, you validate the business case and collect user feedback to secure adoption.
Control
Because we often add new IT technologies to the existing OT application landscape, a modern data platform is needed that securely connects the data silos from both worlds.
Change
The success of a digital transformation depends on your ability to scale your initatives. Embrace out-of-the-box solutions with excellent user experience and reduce the time-to-market.
ICT Group is a leading industrial system integrator. Our mission is making the world a little smarter every day! As a domain specialist in logistics and production automation within four industries – food, chemical, pharmaceutics and discrete manufacturing – we offer customers design, implementation and maintenance services for critical software applications. We combine this domain knowledge in operational technology (OT) with in-depth Cloud expertise (IT) within OrangeNXT to connect the shopfloor to the top floor.
Experience our pragmatic approach and hands-on experience for yourself!
Potato potential
Averis, part of Royal Avebe, is one of the launching customers of our digitalNXT Vision Solution. Creating the feedback loop to continuously monitor and improve the model output was crucial to their process of introducing new potato varieties.
Averis Seeds B.V. was founded as a 100 % daughter from Avebe. The company focus mainly on the development, multiplication and trade of starch potatoes. Averis Seeds aims for potato varieties with high yield, high starch and protein content and a broad set of resistance and embraces new technologies to support this process. Consistently and accurately assessing the quality over time enables Averis in making data-driven decisions and increases the number of successful introductions of new potato varieties to make their farmers happy!
A digital solution
We developed a digital solution for beer brand Bavaria’s distribution chain to digitise the entire distribution network and allow them to monitor their processes in real-time.
Drivers can now view their driving route directly on their smartphone and confirm a delivery to a customer with a simple tap on the screen. If a driver is delayed due to heavy traffic or any other unforeseen circumstances, the customer is notified accordingly and the new arrival time is recalculated in real time.
AN OCEAN OF DATA
We co-created with Royal IHC a search and knowledge mining solution, by building a range of custom skills that help the Royal IHC customer support and asset services teams accelerate search times.
With a history steeped in Dutch shipbuilding since the seventeenth century, Royal IHC designs, builds, and services complex vessels and equipment for the offshore, dredging and wet mining markets. Its customers’ projects are hugely complex and downtime can have a big impact. To relieve its engineers from time-consuming manual data searches across disparate sources, Royal IHC sought an AI-assisted solution. The company now uses Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search to search more than a million documents in under two seconds, speeding time to resolution and improving its customers’ experience.
MANAGING MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
Engie UK and Engie Belgium use OrangeNXT to manage their maintenance operations through integration with the ERP system’s maintenance module.
The platform is extremely user-friendly, enabling users to create and edit mobile forms with no IT assistance at all, thereby continuously improving and expanding the self-managed platform’s functionality.
SAFELY TO AND FROM OFFSHORE WORK SITES
Because more industries have begun expanding their operations to the open sea and offshore platforms, Ampelmann has observed a growing demand for the secure and reliable transfer of workers to and from various platforms.
To address this problem head-on, Ampelmann developed safe and secure motion-compensating gangway systems allowing for the safe and smooth passage of workers from vessels to offshore platforms – giving a new meaning to the notion of ‘walking to work’. OrangeNXT therefor developed an IoT solution which can help Ampelmann to use data to improve the performance of its gangway.
Mobile scanners
The operators in the NS factory are equipped with a mobile device with which they can communicate with MES and scan barcodes on the parts. A mobile application from OrangeNXT, mobileNXT, is used for this.
The operators are supported with work instructions on the mobile scanners. The operators also use the mobile scanner to record measured values, scan objects for control, start and stop tasks and confirm activities. The technical specialists and consultants of ICT Group have provided training to the staff of the various departments of NS Treinmodernization to learn how to use the new systems.
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