“Industry 4.0 revolution brings unmatched opportunities for the Chemical industry to dramatically reduce the cost of production, increase business agility, embrace the vision of an integrated supply chain, and more. The digital transformation of manufacturing operations is rapidly becoming mainstream, with its direct impact on a company’s bottom line and competitive positioning.”
However, the economics of Smart Manufacturing technologies is complex and forbidding for the majority of the industry. A typical technology footprint needed to enable Digital Manufacturing involves investments into middleware technologies, integration technologies, historians (time-series databases), gateways, SCADA systems, Industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms, analytical platforms, hyperscalers, development environments, etc.
Most of these technology components are metered based on data volumes and the number of integration points – so the more the number of machines/data sources you connect, the more you pay.
At the same time, typical cloud-based IIoT platforms are metered on storage-based, per-month pricing models, making scalability over the long term a challenge. The entry barriers for small or less-profitable sites are tall and prohibitory – be it for an SME or the smaller units of a larger Chemical enterprise. The enterprise struggles equally to justify the business case over a 5-year term (or longer), with the annual spending spiralling up every year and business benefits dipping for even the largest and the most profitable sites.
“Hence the need for a technologically advanced solution that could digitize manufacturing operations with a more straightforward, flexible, and scalable business & commercial model is imminent. “
Brabo is one such state-of-the-art solution for the digital manufacturing needs of the industry. The open standards and microservices architecture-based software is a platform of platforms meticulously engineered by the in-house team of maverick technologists at Solulever, a European Digital Manufacturing Software Platform company.
Brabo is a Manufacturing Connectivity & Intelligence platform that lets chemical manufacturers embrace digitization across all their manufacturing sites, irrespective of size, the current state of technology, investment appetite, OEM landscape, or digital maturity of the respective sites. It cuts the layers of technology components otherwise needed to build digital and automation use cases.
The Digital Manufacturing platform provides a plug-and-play possibility to Connect (any data source), Contextualize (production data over any business parameter), Analyze (assets/processes in real-time or post facto), React (to events, alarms & drive automation), and Historize (data for audits & historical reporting).
The platform’s microservices architecture lets an enterprise build digital roadmaps differently for distinct manufacturing sites based on the scale and speed best suited to them.
“Brabo comes bundled with a highly intuitive and configurable ‘Asset Studio’ and ‘Process Studio’ suite of configurable use-cases.”
In a matter of a few days, these applications/analytics can be configured for an enterprise to deliver business value in asset utilization, material efficiency, quality management, process improvement, and more.For enterprises wanting to build custom applications and analytics, the platform delivers an integrated development environment and unlimited APIs to export to other platforms/ environments. This futuristic Industry 4.0 platform uses no other third-party license component, thus containing the price and avoiding any unpleasant surprises in the future for its customers. Built on a Hybrid architecture (Edge and Cloud), Brabo is delivered in two models : (1) ‘Brabo Edge Platform’ (BEP), which is better suited for large and super-large Chemical enterprises, and (2) ‘Brabo Factory Cloud’ (BFC), better suited for medium and small scale Chemical enterprises.
The Edge variant (BEP) is capable of delivering real-time and closed-loop (automation) use cases at high volumes (performance tested for up to 1 Million data points per second ingestion) and high speed (less than 500 milliseconds closed loop). BEP can optionally be delivered as an Appliance (an engineered Edge Server hardware preloaded with BEP). Solulever offers the flexibility of choosing between ‘per-site per-month pricing and ‘per-site perpetual’ pricing options for BEP. There is no extra licensing based on the number of equipment/data sources connected, inbound/ outbound integration points, data volume/ speed, use cases, etc. The cloud variant (BFC) is delivered along with a lightweight edge gateway, which is used to transmit data between a manufacturing plant and a cloud. BFC is offered on a ‘per-machine per month’ pricing model, with entry requirements as low as ten machines. BFC lets you fully digitize your shop-floor operations in 2 to 6 weeks.
Being the most coveted solution for transforming your chemical manufacturing business, Brabo is the go-to product to make your enterprise steer through the competition and embrace the Industry 4.0 revolution.
