Siemens Congleton is the oldest Siemens factory in the UK which has one of the highest productivity rate per square meter of any Siemens sites in the country. It produces over 1 000 000 industrial products like variable speed drives or control units every year which can come in over 20 000 variants.
Objectives: 1) A real time view of the status of machines in the factory with automated alerts for breakdowns.2) A historical view of machine status across all brownfield assets to understand the availability of production lines in the factory.3) Availability of historical machine state data in cloud systems (Insights Hub) for future machine utilisation analysis projects.

Siemens Congleton uses a wide range of electronics manufacturing equipment to produce Siemens SINAMICS variable speed drives. Understanding the state and utilization of this equipment by the help of Industrial Edge applications is a key goal for factory performance and productivity.
Utilizing Siemens Industrial Edge with an IPC227E Edge Device connected to the existing brownfield state monitoring system. Using Industrial Edge Flow Creator Siemens Congleton produced dashboards with open source tools to view real time machine state information.