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Smart Factory Console

The new Smart Factory Console of FLEX for Industry 4.0 is a role-based web application for data collection and production process monitoring and to manage and analyze all data and information collected by industrial machinery, operators and products within the Factory 4.0.

The Smart Factory Console works as a clearing house for the information collected by machines and operations through Tecnest factory applications.

• Compliant with Industry 4.0 paradigm
• Easy-to-use role-based graphic interface
• Rapid execution performance
• Real-time integration with all Tecnest factory applications
• Analytics features and role-based dashboards

Social & Collaborative Manufacturing

New Social & Collaborative Manufacturing featureshas been implemented in order to create a real-time connection among different company functions.

Internal and external operators involved in the production process, can easily visualize, publish, share and manage information and data about processes and activities thanks to:

• New Collaboration Hub of FLEX for Industry 4.0
• Features for real-time content exchange (chat, screensharing, etc.)
• Features for delayed content exchange (FAQ, forum, document sharing, etc.)
• Features for the coordination of communication (kanban board, scrum, report, etc.)

Industrial Internet of Things

According to Industrial Internet of Things paradigms, all the data related to production time, quantity, orders or issues are communicated in real-time from industrial machinery to the system.

The FLEX for Industry 4.0 new IoT gateway connects and integrates machines, sensors, devices, automation systems and physical items within the smart factory.

These data are gathered in the Smart Factory Console, the main place where interaction and collaboration activities between the operators and the other production items take place.