CHALLENGE
Help a small industrial equipment manufacturer develop equipment controls that are “internet of things” (IoT) enabled.
KEY CHANGES
- Design team was coached through voice-of-customer exercise to assess customers’ factory floor needs and constraints, survey technology, and evaluate design partnerships that could deliver technology.
- Developed product roadmaps for IoT-enabled controls that could integrate into existing factory floors and industrial automation environments.
- Developed recommendations for requirements for engineering resourcing and simulation tools to support the proposed product roadmap.
- Recommended a combination of internal resourcing for core hardware/software functionality and third-party design services to help build the “stack” to support IoT enabled controls.
IMPACT
Company has a clear product development effort underway to an IoT enabled controller line.
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