The Electronics activity of LACROIX manages its production lines in real time thanks to ThingWorx from PTC

PTC is supporting us part of our operational excellence strategy. We have chosen to deploy PTC’s ThingWorx industrial innovation platform in the group’s 4 plants for real-time management of production lines.

We were looking for ways to gain real-time visibility into the control in production processes and testing of components, while industrializing data collection to improve equipment failure and component defect identification. The financial and productivity stakes were high, given that more than 10 million components are handled every day in our French plant.

After a call for tenders entrusted to KPMG and the successful completion of a feasibility study, we have selected the ThingWorx platform. Open and interoperable, they were able to easily connect the platform to their very heterogeneous installed based of machines.

The data collected by Thing Worx ensures:

• better knowledge of machine status
• a complete view of production lines
• earlier detection of anomalies and maintenance requirements

We have thus been able to implement one aspect of our Smart Industry strategy.

In connection with our Symbiose project to create a new electronic factory of the future in France, we now consider going far beyond data connectivity. For instance, the implementation of predictive maintenance, to approach operational excellence and deliver powerful experiences with Augmented Reality, is under review.

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