Overview

Oracle IoT Production Monitoring Cloud Service is a specialized Internet of Things application. This application lets you locate your factories and machines, and monitor their health and utilization. It gives you real-time visibility into your production process and helps you diagnose and predict production issues so that you can increase the uptime of your factories. It also helps you schedule maintenance so that you can minimize the disruption to your daily operations.

Oracle IoT Production Monitoring Cloud Service lets you monitor your shop floor in real time. The physical systems designed to manufacture products can communicate with each other , as well as interact and cooperate with humans. This interaction increases the efficiency of your production process and improves your decision-making process.

Stream data from the factory floor to measure the performance and health of you equipment based on different predefined or custom metrics, and get up-to-date production status information.

Monitor the performance of you factories at different levels, starting from a global perspective to then drill down to the health of specific machines:

Factory Level: View all your production lines as they appear on your shop floor, and select a specific production line for more details.
Product Level: Monitor the progress of your products, view diagrams product routing, and identify bottlenecks.
Machine Level: View machine availability statistics, view the associated sensor data to identify problem areas, and identify machine issues that affect production output.

You can compare your factory or machine with the best performers, or view historical data to contextualize the current performance data. You can also monitor warnings that may anticipate future production issues, and monitor and track the current incidents and their resolution.

What are the Typical Use Cases?

The following table shows some of the industries that are currently using Known Issues for Oracle IoT Production Monitoring Cloud Service and lists the objectives they wanted to achieve when they chose the product.

Industry	Objectives
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing	Reduce scrap rate. Improve machine health tracking. Increase uptime.
Consumer Electronics Manufacturing	Improve the delivery process. Increase the production line utilization. Reduce scrap.
High-Tech Manufacturing	Increase capacity utilization. Reduce unplanned downtime.
Plastic Manufacturing	Deliver of multi-variant individualized products on time.