Increased acceptance of smart factory solutions into industry settings ushers in benefits like improved asset efficiency and productivity and the creation of innovation opportunities. However, studies show that only five percent of manufacturers implement it in their factories as they search for affordable and sustainable solutions accompanied by professional guidance after deployment.

Changing the narrative is Total Engineering Innovative Assistants (TEIA). It is helping clients adopt smartification and automation to enhance the productivity of their manufacturing processes. The firm offers smart factory solutions that benefit its customers by converging IT and OT technologies like intelligent automation, building management systems, and cloud-scale data management and analytics. Combining these technologies can offer a holistic view of all the activities conducted within the factory’s four walls, aiding businesses in enhancing their overall performance.

TEIA offers easy-to-implement smart factory solutions after evaluating the client’s current factory infrastructure. It combines the IT and OT technologies according to its customers’ needs, and proposes a gradual deployment to ascertain that the prescribed technologies are entirely integrated into the existing production process. TEIA provides an affordable and sustainable solution by enhancing the primary functions of hardware and software already in use.

“TEIA is the preferred choice of our customers because of our ability to propose and integrate various technologies for immediate action. And our expertise in creating smart factory solutions that are customized for each customer makes us more attractive,” says Choon Jae Lee, CEO of TEIA.

TEIA’s smart factory solutions consist of their smart factory devices and a smart factory SW platform. The smart factory devices can accumulate data from various resources, enabling the platform to create an all-encompassing digital twin spanning the physical layout of the factory. It can also improve the product life cycle by accessing real-time data of the activities within the factory network. Additionally, the flexible nature of these solutions can integrate third-party data into the system, enabling factories to learn and adopt smartification through deep learning. TEIA can help manufacturers minimize mistakes and defects caused by human error.

Employing wireless communication and a real-time location system (RTLS), smart factory devices like S-Tag, S-Watch, AR glasses, and pressure sensing gloves provide information through their sensors that are connected to the cloud environment. Widely used in the automotive industry, outdoor and indoor logistics, and construction, these IoT devices enable manufacturers to track product and employee location, collect data, stay up-to-date with real-time work results, prevent defects, and ensure the safety of workers. The Korean government’s emphasis on employee safety has also boosted the demand for these products.

TEIA’s smart factory SW platform systematically connects the information received from the IoT devices to form the digital twin of the entire factory in stages. First, it combines the information received and analyzes the data using the IoT gateway. The platform’s adaptable interface connects and feeds the data to MES, ERP, and EMS systems which is then gathered and integrated together. With a comprehensive understanding of the factory through the gathered data, the platform creates an all-encompassing digital twin that can monitor and track all operations and employees in the factory.

As an expert in smart factory solutions, TEIA has aided multiple automobile manufacturers from Korea in the smartification of their factories to accommodate the latest shift in the market’s requirements. The cellular production model is the new norm of car manufacturing wherein, unlike yesteryear’s assembly line, the vehicle is stationary; employees work around it and utilize automation in the manufacturing process. Using TEIA’s smart factory devices, like S-Tag, manufacturers gather real-time updates on the workflow and integrate it with the SW platform to create a digital twin. They are alerted to human error in real-time. This saves time identifying the problem and protects them from huge, after-sale losses.

New IT and OT technologies are introduced daily in the market, and their frequent updates make it challenging for manufacturers to decide which tool to use to maximize operational efficiency.TEIA continuously examines and reviews these advancements and incorporates them into its smart factory solutions to alleviate this dilemma. Its efforts to improve its technology and services are the primary reason TEIA is a global leader. With its affordable solutions that enable manufacturers to create an all-encompassing digital twin, TEIA offers them a stage to create more opportunities for innovation and generate profits through smartification of their industries.