Shop Floor Data Collection Software for Automotive

Collecting and visualising shop floor data for an automotive manufacturer

MADIS built a cloud-based system that gathers production data from the shop floor and makes it visible – to optimise the production line and increase throughput.

At a glance

AWS

serverless cloud functions

IaC

infrastructure managed with Terraform

End-to-end

tracking of production process elements

Summary: An automotive manufacturer wanted to gather shop floor data and visualise it for further use. MADIS created a system on AWS that collects and displays production data, helping the client optimise its production line, increase throughput and keep track of every element of the production process.

The client

The client is an automotive manufacturer.

The challenge

To improve production, the manufacturer needed a reliable way to gather data from the shop floor and make it available for analysis and further use.

Our approach

Data collection

A system to gather shop floor data for further use.

Visualisation

An Angular web interface that makes production data visible.

Cloud infrastructure

Serverless cloud functions on AWS written in TypeScript, with infrastructure managed through Terraform and Docker.

The solution

The delivered system gathers and visualises shop floor data, supporting the optimisation of the production line and tracking of all elements of the production process.

Technologies: Angular 14 · AWS cloud functions (TypeScript) · Terraform · Docker

Results

• Production line optimisation: data supports decisions on how to optimise the line.
• Higher throughput: the system aims to increase production throughput.
• Full overview: all elements of the production process can be tracked.

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