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Case Study

IIoT Solution for Industry 4.0 Transformation of a Global Leader in Engineering Services

Client Background

PennEngineering is a global leader in engineering services and the fastening industry with the company’s leading brand being recognized as the premier product in the thin sheet fastening industry for over 80 years.

Client Need

  • Shifting towards digitization to keep pace with industry advancements
  • Existing on-premises IoT platform struggled with scalability
  • Operational risks and data accuracy issues
  • Harmony between machinery and performance metrics slipping
  • Limited ability to advance data and analytic maturity

Our Solution

  • Device Communication: AWS IoT Core for seamless device connectivity
  • Data Stream Management: Amazon Kinesis for efficient data handling
  • Event-Driven Computation: AWS Lambda for real-time data processing
  • Data Storage & Retrieval: Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena for robust storage and querying
  • Secure API Management: AWS API Gateway for data security
  • Secure API Management: AWS API Gateway for data security
  • Real-Time Alerts: AWS SNS for immediate issue notification
  • Visualization & Monitoring: Managed Grafana and CloudWatch for insights and monitoring

Tools & Technologies

Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, AWS IoT Core, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS SNS, Amazon Managed Grafana, Amazon Athena, Amazon CloudWatch, PLC to cloud edge gateway, OT security Module, Terraform, Ansible, CICD Pipeline

Key Benefits

  • Coherent view of operations
  • Real-time alerts for swift issue resolution
  • Efficient management of growing data streams.New global locations to be integrated quickly, without capital investment
  • Ensured the highest levels of security and compliance
  • Machines, data, and analytics in sync to enable real-time data trends, forecasting, and deep efficiency analysis
  • Implement the next phase of Industry 4.0 Transformation leveraging AWS ML/AI services
Case Study KeyPoints

Testimonial

“Innova Solutions has been a key partner in our journey to turn our manufacturing machine data into actionable information.  Innova Solutions helped us design a data streaming architecture, that leveraged the best of on-premise IoT Gateway technologies, as well as AWS native cloud capabilities.  This ability to see our machine performance in near real-time across our global facilities, has allowed us to accomplish multiple goals - not only can we understand local performance, but we can now share global best practices to optimize our manufacturing output.  The expertise and flexibility provided by Innova Solutions proved to be a key driver in our ability to deliver this capability.”

Shawn Eads

Chief Information Officer, PennEngineering

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