Using the Internet of Things in a Production Planning Context

Abstract

One of the most novel concepts that has been applied to companies in recent years is “Sensing Enterprises”. This concept implies a drastic change in the way companies operate. Within the framework of this concept, another necessary and complementary concept arises, the so-called “Internet of Things” concept. It seems evident that the Internet of Things can generally help improve the function- ing of the processes undertaken in companies, particularly one of the key proc- esses; the production planning process. Despite being able to find abundant infor- mation on both themes, and the apparent relevance that using the Internet of Things could have for the production planning process, no works that have jointly studied these matters were found. To bridge this gap, the present work intends to reflect on how the characteristics and advantages of the Internet of Things can be put to good use in the production planning process.

Analyzing the effects of applying IoT to a metal-mechanical company

“…Some of the specific advantages achieved with the application of the IoT in the present study case, can be aligned with some of the benefits cited by (Alarcón et al, 2016) when the IoT is applied in the production planning process. Its article highlights between these benefits: greater efficiency, increase in quality and security, ease of integration (exchange of information), reduction of costs and improvement of customer response (sections can be considered as internal customers).…”

“…In the IoT literature, some of the advantages and disadvantages of application in different sectors of society are described (Soumyalatha, 2016;Bhayani, Patel & Bhatt, 2016). This section is based on three papers, which are reviews covering many other works, citing the most important general advantages in the application of IoT and other more specific advantages in reference to the IoT applied to the production planning process (Alarcón , Perez & Boza, 2016) highlighting the main benefits. (Soumyalatha, 2016) Main general advantages cited by the authors are:…”

“…Higher quality and safety in the traceability of components and products. 75% 90% 15% X X (Alarcón et al, 2016) A12…”

“…Other authors such as (Alarcón et al, 2016), after reviewing the literature about the IoT applied to the process of production planning, consider some more concrete and defined advantages:…”

Forecast of Multivariate Time Series Sampled From Industrial Machinery Sensors

“…The topic of leveraging embedded sensors, industrial networks and data mining techniques in order to attend high complexity industrial demands also relates to the current research trend on the Internet of Things (IoT). The four basic aspects of IoTs are reliable and accurate data collection; capacity to collect a huge quantity of data; rapid data transmission and automated processes (Lopes Miranda Junior et al, 2017;Alarcón et al, 2016).…”