How Ascon Systems
transforms the
Automotive Industry
The next-gen process automation and orchestration platform Ascon Qube opens the door to a new level of efficiency and agility. Now, automakers can break free from hard-coded PLCs and the constraints of the ISA 95 pyramid.
Ascon Qube delivers a dramatic leap in cost-effectiveness and productivity, and it couldn’t come at a better time.
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The Challenges
Formidable challenges, fierce competition
Automotive manufacturers face increasing challenges in a rapidly evolving industry and with ever growing international competition. Key obstacles include:
- Intense cost pressure and global competition
- Ongoing supply chain disruptions
- A widening talent gap and workforce shortages
- The shift to electric and autonomous vehicles
- Incremental OEE improvements falling short of transformational needs
What you need is a quantum leap in efficiency, flexibility, and resiliency.
Ascon Qube
Run your factories like a data center
Ascon Qube is the future of advanced automation, freeing you from the inflexibility of hard-coded PLCs and the experts to run them.
By switching to converged IT-OT infrastructure, not only do you achieve dramatic cost savings, you also lay the foundation for software-defined manufacturing. It’s a whole new level of flexibility and agility for your production.
Now you can make that efficiency leap with comprehensive analytics, predictive maintenance, AI-driven optimization, and even autonomous production processes.
Automation and process orchestration
The volumes common in the automotive industry have resulted in a high degree of automation. Ascon Automation allows you to model, monitor, and operate your entire automotive factory using our unique bidirectional digital twins. You gain flexibility and enhance resilience by breaking down the rigid structures that remain common in the automotive industry.
Data transparency
Ascon Qube contextualizes, stores and processes data that is collected during production. It allows you to monitor adherence to automotive industry safety and environmental regulations while optimizing quality control. Document every single component or assembly that goes into the vehicle with seamless traceability and enable further the use of AI and ML tools.
Digital Twin technology
The global nature of the auto industry and the rise of distributed teams make remote collaboration essential. Now you can plan, visualize and control your smart factory using digital twins in real time. Include all your planning and production systems, shop floor data and more to track, monitor and interact with your shop floor.
End-to-end visibility
Optimize production planning and engineering processes and create a closed, digital loop of data consistency across all project phases with harmonized data throughout the entire product development process.
Benefits
Transformational benefits for OEMs and Tier 1 and 2 suppliers
Achieve greater agility
Implementing software-defined manufacturing and control of your operations offers previously unimaginable flexibility. You gain the ability to react quickly to changing consumer demand and supply chain disruptions. Despite the ongoing shortage of automation experts, and with accelerated time-to-market.
Optimize resource consumption
With comprehensive data, you can apply analytics and machine learning to identify opportunities to lower consumption of energy and materials. From the pressing plant to the paint shop, considerable cost savings are waiting to be discovered in your manufacturing data.
Reduce capital expenditures
Beyond the lower investments required for converged IT/OT infrastructure, Ascon Qube also reduces capital expenditure for equipment and machines. By resolving bottlenecks and reducing inefficiencies, less equipment and fewer experts are required. Data-driven predictive maintenance reduces downtime, further reducing the need for additional machines or lines.
Dramatically Higher Overall Equipment Effectiveness
By keeping equipment up and running very close to maximum performance and producing high-quality automobiles and parts with little reworking required, Ascon Qube offers the dramatic increase in OEE automakers require to succeed in a highly competitive global market.
Dramatically Higher Overall Equipment Effectiveness
The BMW Group is constantly working on innovative IT solutions to power the factory of the future. At the BMW Innovation Hub in Dingolfing, we deployed the Ascon Qube on a flexible automated assembly system and coupled it to the Nvidia Omniverse platform.
You can read the full case study on how Ascon Systems transformed a production line at BMW here.
How Ascon Systems can help
Revolutionizing manufacturing operations with cutting-edge technology
Whether you’re modernizing existing facilities or planning a new plant, Ascon Systems has the tools and expertise to transform your operations.
Of course, a new factory is an ideal scenario for an advanced automation platform. But Ascon Systems also understands how to implement advanced automation in brownfield automotive manufacturing environments.
Here, a big bang can’t work — the name of the game is an iterative strategy based on the proven 2-phase Ascon AIM process:
First we analyze the status quo and develop a roadmap.
Secondly this roadmap is implemented using a comprehensive change management process.
Schedule an appointment for an initial conversation — we’d be delighted to learn more about your requirements and challenges.
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