Specialised in data-driven production
Smart Manufacturing
How can you detect disruptions early, make targeted quality improvements and reduce production costs?
ACENT helps you build a reliable data foundation for smart manufacturing and apply it to specific tasks in production. When production data are distributed across various plants and systems, integrating them for planning and decision-making becomes essential.
We work with you to optimise production processes using digital twins and plan predictive maintenance. We use data to identify areas where you can reduce operating costs, including energy consumption and spare parts consumption. We use AI where it takes the workload off your teams, ensures production knowledge remains accessible and enables well-founded decisions. To achieve this, we align production processes, data and systems within an integrated IT/OT architecture and support implementation from vendor-neutral planning right through to go-live.
Production simulation & optimisation
We use digital twins for your production to provide real-time visibility and to simulate various optimisation scenarios. This provides you with a foundation for systematically evaluating and capturing specific opportunities to improve OEE and yield. In this way, you can increase your overall equipment effectiveness.
Predictive maintenance
We combine predictive maintenance with data-based anomaly detection. This gives you a basis for identifying impending faults at an earlier stage and planning measures to reduce unplanned downtime and OEE losses.
AI-assisted quality assurance
We support AI-assisted quality checks using computer vision. This provides you with a data-driven basis for identifying quality deviations at an early stage and making targeted improvements to your product quality.
Data-driven spare parts management
We support the data-driven optimisation of your spare parts management. This gives you a basis for striking the right balance between spare parts demand, stock levels and availability, identifying bottlenecks and finding ways to reduce your operating costs.
Energy efficiency in production
We analyse energy consumption in your production and provide the basis for data-driven optimisation. You gain insight into consumption patterns and potential savings, enabling you to prioritise measures and reduce operating costs.
AI-assisted planning
We provide you with a real-time single source of truth for your production. Building on this consistent, integrated data foundation, we work with you to implement AI-assisted planning and decision-making processes, providing the basis for well-founded decisions.
AI-assisted production knowledge
We use AI to digitise your production knowledge and make it scalable for further applications. This ensures that knowledge is retained within your company even in the face of demographic change, and continues to grow as new applications are developed.
AI-assisted production control
We design customised digital assistants for your production control processes. You receive solutions that automate and reduce routine tasks, take the pressure off your teams and free up more time for challenging tasks, thereby increasing productivity.
IT/OT architecture
You benefit from an integrated process, data, system and interface architecture aligned with the RAMI 4.0 reference model. We design your IT/OT convergence, creating a future-proof technological foundation on which you can systematically advance your manufacturing operations.
ERP, MES, MDM & PLM integration
We integrate your ERP, MES, MDM and PLM systems into a seamless end-to-end process for production control. You benefit from an integrated workflow from order entry to shipping and a data foundation that enables you to continuously optimise your production.
Industrial DataOps
We design data architectures for your production using Industrial DataOps and integrated cloud and edge components. You’ll receive an architecture that considers OT security and the NIS2 requirements relevant to your business throughout the entire process.
Project & programme management
We manage your complex transformation initiatives, running the individual projects as one coordinated, integrated programme. We align our programme approach with Industry 4.0 and RAMI 4.0, coordinate dependencies and set clear priorities to drive your implementation towards its objectives.
Supply and production resilience
We analyse critical dependencies in your value chain and support you to develop measures to address supply bottlenecks, production outages and fluctuations in demand. We assess alternative supply and production channels and design coordinated contingency plans so that you can mitigate disruptions and maintain your ability to deliver.
Implementation planning
You receive vendor-neutral planning, feasibility studies, MVPs and go-live support for your project. Our team will support you in evaluating potential solutions before full-scale implementation and accompany you through to the complete go-live to ensure a smooth rollout.
Bottleneck analysis
Together, we analyse dependencies and bottlenecks in your value chain and evaluate alternative production processes. This provides you with a tool that allows you to make informed decisions about which adjustments are appropriate when requirements change.
Production scenarios
We work with you to develop scenarios for fluctuations in demand, supply bottlenecks or equipment failures. We provide you with recommended courses of action derived from these scenarios, enabling your teams to adjust production in a targeted manner in response to changing conditions.
Disruption and recovery management
Together with your teams, we define how disruptions are assessed, how decisions are made and how recovery measures are coordinated. You receive clear lines of responsibility and coordinated procedures that enable you to take targeted action in the event of a disruption.
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