Within Bentley, we have seen a significant 2.5 Billion Euro investment in future mobility and a Dream Factory to deliver it. However, within our current manufacturing vision remain a sizable number of 'Dumb' unconnected, primitive technologies and assets which will remain at the heart of our future product deliveries.

With our new, multimillion pound factory assets coming online, how we do ensure we are able to obtain the live data and status to enable us to manage the whole manufacturing process end to end?

Realistically, the only answer was either to replace a third of all our machinery and assets - or to develop, using Industry 4.0 sensor solutions, a cloud based and wireless I/O delivery. The system must allow us to self deploy using our in house skill set, in a cost effective manner and collect data points that can be directly inputted into our future factory MES and SCADA solutions. One the data is collected - it allows us to develop dashboards and create Condition Based Monitoring outputs and Live status feedback and to generate Predictability Algorithms with Cloud based providers, such as AWS and Snowflake.

The solution would be Quick to install, Adaptable and can be modified when needed and Cost effective.