3YOURMIND provides platforms to streamline industrial 3D printing and develops digital 3D workflows to connect teams and production locations, optimize resource utilization and enable smart production decisions.
Founded in 2014, 3YOURMIND looked to build its 3D platform in the cloud, so that its infrastructure could scale with the company and would be easy to manage.
3YOURMIND deployed its first MVP to AWS after only a few days and now uses services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudFront, and Route 53 to help their customers digitize product development and enable agile manufacturing.
"On the basis of the AWS Cloud infrastructure, we could easily bootstrap our platform and scale it up as we grow - even on servers in Germany," says Felix Bauer, vice president of engineering at 3YOURMIND.
Founded in 1980, Beckhoff specializes in PC-based automation technology. The company wanted to provide its customers in the manufacturing industry with an interface to securely and easily connect its software – such as the TwinCAT system, which turns almost any compatible PC into a real-time controller – to the AWS ecosystem. Beckhoff built this connectivity solution using AWS IoT Core, AWS Greengrass and Amazon Polly.
"By helping our customers use AWS services in connection with Beckhoff automation technology, we enable them to collect and process data from multiple PLC devices run in different locations – with a minimum amount of know-how on cloud services required," says Sven Goldstein, product manager TwinCAT at Beckhoff.
Diehl offers connectivity solutions for applications ranging from Industrial Connectivity, Appliances & Tools and Smart City & Smart Campus, in which the gateways transmit machine data from a wide range of sensors to a backend run on AWS. The machine insights, which include data on temperature, pressure or acceleration, are then visualized for the customer. Utilizing AWS services, Diehl was able to flexibly customize its cloud infrastructure, to set the backend up for further scaling and to reduce its operating costs.
“With the help of AWS services such as Elastic Load Balancing and the good monitoring possibilities, we managed to reduce our costs for internal data transfers by almost 50 percent,” says Michael Huhn, director project & product management at Diehl.
Roth-Gruppe offers customized automation technologies for the automotive sector and adjoining industries. Working with AWS and Endian, security provider specializing in IoT solutions, Roth-Gruppe built a cloud-based remote maintenance solution to help customers optimize production processes and implement predictive maintenance. Data from different machine locations are collected in the cloud, and used to gain insights into machine productivity and reduce downtimes.
“Since the initial proof of concept was realized fast and cost-efficiently, and we did not have to spend time on hardware installation and maintenance, we can instead focus our resources on further scaling our solution," says Ellen Roth, managing director of Roth Steuerungstechnik GmbH.
According to Axel Noack, business development director at Endian, “the security and accessibility of the machine data needs to be guaranteed at all times, which is why we chose AWS as cloud provider.”
With its Connected Cleaning systems, Kärcher brings transparency to professional cleaning and optimizes cleaning processes by connecting machines, people and buildings.
The company runs the digital platform for its products Kärcher Fleet and Kärcher Manage on AWS, and provides its customers with solutions to remotely monitor their cleaning fleet, to analyze the utilized capacity of cleaning machines or to protect them against theft through location tracking.
“We needed a mature and reliable cloud service provider that was able to spin up the complete infrastructure for our machine fleet solution, within a short amount of time,” says Leonhard Kerscher, manager development and operation at Kärcher.
IotOS has been working with AWS and electronic components manufacturer Limtronik to develop an IoT solution for product protection. Production and product quality data are collected in the cloud and made available for real-time tracking of the IoT devices as well as automatic root cause analyses in the case of defects. IoTOS built the solution on AWS, among others using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), and will work with services like AWS Lambda and AWS CodePipeline to further scale it.
Working with AWS on this project meant for us that the entire cloud architecture was taken care of and that we could trust in its reliability and 100 percent availability - and fully focus on developing our product,” says Wolf Lüdge, general manager at IoTOS.
MANN+HUMMEL specializes in filtration systems ranging from indoor air systems to automotive and water filtration solutions. The company went all-in on AWS to build IoT filter solutions using AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB and AWS IoT Core. Due to the minimal development effort and upfront investment, MANN+HUMMEL was able to rapidly develop the prototype, commercialize its first IoT solutions and start rolling them out across the globe. “So far, we have released two IoT solutions to our customers and will continue to develop more using AWS,” says Charles Vaillant, chief technology officer at MANN+HUMMEL.
Syskron X, subsidiary of Krones AG, develops digital end-to-end solutions for production lines and uses AWS services to help customers in the food and beverage industry to optimize their supply chain.
Syskron X’s IoT solution “ReadyKit” monitors the health and productivity of filling lines through edge computing, independent of machine age or manufacturer.
Utilizing AWS cloud services, such as Amazon DynamoDB, AWS IoT Core and AWS Greengrass, Syskron X provides its customers with 24/7 data availability, a high degree of data security and the option of a centralized software rollout.
“The integrated security mechanisms in the AWS Cloud help us provide additional data protection, with which we are able to gain customer trust,” says Dr. Benjamin Kormann, team lead ReadyKit at Syskron X.
Vorwerk works with AWS to digitize its line of Thermomix kitchen appliances and to connect users worldwide via their recipe portal, Cookidoo.
The kitchen device platform, which connects more than one million Thermomix appliances worldwide, was built using AWS services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Data Pipeline, and AWS Lambda.
“The elasticity and scalability of AWS played an important role when rolling out Cookidoo globally,” says Stefan Motz, head of digital strategy at Vorwerk. “Without AWS, we would have not been able to bring the same quality of service to our customers in different continents from one central service organization.”
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