OREANDA-NEWS. Intel(r) Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation today announced a new collaboration to develop next generation Factory Automation (FA) systems with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and a pilot program at Intel's backend manufacturing facility in Malaysia.

The pilot demonstrates the benefits of the IoT in a factory setting. The pilot system will focus on delivering productivity enhancement through innovative functions, such as predictive failure, by combining Intel's expertise developing solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Mitsubishi's "e-F@ctory" automation capabilities. Intel realized a savings of nine million dollars over the course of the pilot.

As an initial collaboration, Intel and Mitsubishi implemented the IoT and big data solution at Intel's backend manufacturing facility in Malaysia. Using an Intel(r) Atom(tm) processor-based IoT gateway called the C Controller from Mitsubishi Electric, part of their iQ Platform, Intel was able to securely gather and aggregate data for the analytics server. Data was then processed using Revolution R Enterprise software from Revolution Analytics, an analytics software solution that uses the open source R statistics language, which was hosted on Cloudera Enterprise, the foundation of an enterprise data hub.

The solution has improved equipment component uptime, increased yield and productivity by minimizing misclassification of good units as bad, enabled predictive maintenance, and reduced component failures. Initial results include a savings of nine million dollars through cost avoidance and improved decision making.

The commercialization date for the product is 2015 and to the companies will show a live demonstration of the solution in Intel's booth at the IoT Japan 2014 tradeshow, which will be held on October 15-17 at Tokyo Big Sight in Japan.