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An illustration of ThyssenKrupp’s new IIoT platform, which it calls toii

ThyssenKrupp claims ‘breakthrough’ in digital transformation and connecting machinery ​

July 17, 2017 by David Edwards

ThyssenKrupp says it has achieved a breakthrough in the area of digital transformation and connecting machinery ​in industry.

ThyssenKrupp says it has reached a “milestone” for the digital transformation of industry and connecting the machinery of its materials services division through a new digital platform.

The company’s new internet of things platform is call Toii, or toii, as the company prefers to write it. 

Toii enables all machines can communicate with each other, says ThyssenKrupp.

Due to predictive maintenance the platform is also supposed to forecast the necessity of machine services in the future.

The name, Toii, chosen by ThyssenKrupp is a double play on words – it spells IIoT backwards, the abbreviation for industrial internet of things – and it is pronounced like the word “toy”, an indication of how the new platform makes linking heterogeneous machines to existing IT structures “child’s play”.

Toii was developed completely in-house by company software engineering experts and tailored to the specific requirements of materials services.

One platform for everything

The machinery belonging to the business area, which focuses on global materials distribution and processing services, is highly diverse: The machines perform a wide range of tasks, were made by various manufacturers and differ in age.

Now Toii makes it possible to connect bandsaws and bending machines, mobile objects like cranes and forklifts and even complex production facilities such as slitting and cut to length lines and sophisticated processing solutions through milling machines and laser systems digitally in line with the IIoT.

The digital platform allows the machines to share data and communicate with one another and with the IT systems.

Processes can be planned and coordinated optimally and flexibly – across locations, worldwide. As a further major benefit, the platform simplifies data analysis.

Which product has been produced when and in what quantities? Which machine needs maintenance? What could be developing into a problem? What additional materials need to be delivered?

The system answers all of these questions and many more by gathering and analyzing data. The results are just a mouse click away – clearly structured and easy to understand.

Hans-Josef Hoß, board member of ThyssenKrupp Materials Services, says: “We’ve created an end-to-end solution that is tailored specifically to our needs. It will enable us to accelerate the automation of our production operations and make our processes much more efficient.

“We are now taking the digital transformation to the core areas of our business: our production shops, our machinery and equipment, and our materials. Our customers will feel the benefit – and so will we.”

Close teamwork of man and machine

ThyssenKrupp says Toii has already successfully proven its worth in several pilot projects.

For example, at Materials Processing Europe in Mannheim, a new, highly complex cut to length line that cuts sheet from coil was fully connected with the platform.

The result: Toii transfers work orders directly and in real time from the SAP system to the machine and controls its settings from sizes and weights to volumes.

The platform also automatically retrieves the machine information required by SAP.

As a result, the status of production and the finished products can be viewed at any time.

Other machines have also already been digitally connected and automated using Toii, for example measuring the thickness of metal strips for effective quality control and automatic blanking.

In the latter case, the platform even made it possible to fully integrate the blanking operation into a production line.

In other areas, from high-bay storage to mobile construction machinery, Toii is improving efficiency as well.

The platform is an in-house development, highly scalable, and can integrate up to several hundred machines a year.

An international Materials Services team of IT professionals from Germany, India and the USA worked together to develop Toii.

Alongside various projects in Germany, there are already plans to deploy the system in the UK and the USA. All data are currently hosted on a central server in Germany.

But to be able to comply with all data protection law requirements, local servers will also be created in the UK and USA as part of the further roll-out.

ThyssenKrupp Materials Services says it is “systematically driving the digital transformation of the business area throughout the entire value chain”.

In many areas, connected collaboration and interactive processes are already well established – from logistics, warehousing and line utilization to purchasing and administration.

The focus is on customers and their individual requirements.

The aim: to continuously develop and implement made-to-measure digital solutions that allow for smarter and more effective collaboration and open up completely new possibilities.

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