Belimo – Octotronic

Octotronic USE CASE with Belimo

First Steps towards Predictive Maintenance: Enhancing Efficiency and Centralizing Data

BELIMO partnered with Octotronic to enhance quality and production capabilities through a comprehensive monitoring system. This collaboration led to the successful implementation of a centralized system that logs, centralizes, and consolidates production data, enabling better problem identification and predictive maintenance. The project highlights BELIMO’s commitment to innovation and continuous improvement, leveraging Octotronic’s expertise in digital solutions to achieve significant operational benefits.

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Electronics
Manufacturing

Europe

Company

BELIMO Automation AG is the world leader in the development, production, and marketing of field devices for energy-efficient control of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.

The core business includes damper actuators, control valves, sensors, and meters. The company employs around 2000 people worldwide, with about half at the headquarters in Hinwil in the Zurich Oberland and the other half at various international locations.

Use Case Objectives

BELIMO’s production aimed to enhance quality and production capabilities by implementing a comprehensive monitoring system across all production sites.

This system was designed to:

Monitor critical field data
Improve maintenance capabilities
Provide a centralized overview of production lines
Trigger meaningful notifications

Collaboration

BELIMO and Octotronic collaborated to create the appropriate system architecture. Octotronic contributed extensive practical experience with trends, best practices, and state-of-the-art technologies. The agile and constructive collaboration led to a system that BELIMO intends to continuously expand.

Key Project Milestones

Logging, centralizing, and consolidating field data from production.

Full acceptance and use of the system by various teams. Initial automated notifications (e.g., information, warnings, alarms) in use

Customer benefits

Improvements and differences from the per-implementation operations:

Centralized data overview, accessible worldwide
Enhanced problem identification and solution-oriented communication
Faster detection and resolution of issues, with potential for predictive prevention
Comprehensive view of processes and identification of trends, weaknesses, and optimization potentials

The initial results have successfully set the foundation for Predictive Maintenance in production.

Octotronic Expertise

Smart Factory Consulting
Connectivity
Data Structuring & Standardization
Data Integration & Networking
Monitoring
Comprehensive Data Analysis
Traceability
Event-Based Communication

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