Family business Blickle relies on condition monitoring with edbic

Blickle IT is therefore developing a concept that enables a sustainable and gradual transformation. The strategy is based on edbic, which makes condition monitoring possible. This system acts as a central data hub and ensures that machine data is automatically read out and transferred to the ERP system, creating full transparency within production.

The introduction of edbic means that, for the first time, machine data does not arrive in IT incomplete and with a time delay. Instead, the data is analyzed directly and enables an immediate response to problems. The data from the automatic punching presses is monitored and results on output, missing parts and quantities, among other things, are determined. edbic thus makes the Excel lists that were frequently used in the past largely superfluous. Problems are also easily identified and rectified in polyurethane production, which helps to maintain the high product quality of Blickle castors and wheels. But edbic is now also being used outside of production. For example, the connection to the payment provider in the web store has been solved and a communication link to SAP has been created.

Outlook
In the future, the system is to be further refined by using the comparison of machine data for predictive maintenance. Blickle is also considering using the compacer IoT gateway to raise communication between the machines and with the ERP system to an even higher level of automation.