ACC - DATA AGGREGATION and ANALYTICS PLATFORM

Client: Automated Control Concepts provides high-quality information products, services (manufacturing intelligence, automation and control, IT4OT) and solutions to manufacturing and utility companies in Life Science & Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Water & Wastewater, Packaged goods and more

Location: New Jersey, USA

How relationship started: Client had many disaggregated separated siloed sources of data and charts in the industrial automation space that were standalone applications. Operators needed to switch between these applications in the course of their duties, which is inefficient and creates an incoherent environment. Systems integrators also tend to utilize these vendor applications as part of their integration scope, but rarely develop their own operator front-ends. We invested our time and resources into Discovery phase of what the best solution to create a cohesive platform, which could expand with time and business expansion.

Challenge: Integrate and connect various discrete specific to industry tools and frameworks: Ignition, TruTraq, LabOWL, Smart Start

Services and Expertise: Solution Implementation, Discovery & Tech Advisory, UX & UI Design; Testing Services; Cloud & DevOps; Full-stack Engineering

Technologies: Azure Data Factory, PowerBI, .NET

Achievements:

  • Designed, Architected and Developed unified application environment where users can access TruTraq, LabOWL, Smart Start, and any other browser-based application that ACC will develop
  • Solved the challenge of complicated integrations on back-end and integration layers
  • Built cloud-based scalable solution, which is easy to extend in accordance with business needs and appliance

Value of our services:

  • Increased operational transparency and communication: Platform Operators will be able to message others within the organization, view all of their working environments, and receive notifications of system events.
  • Enabled visibility and better data-driven decision making where operations supervisors and managers will be able to view all of their facility’s OEE data, KPIs, and any other relevant dashboards/data
  • Helped ACC to reach business agility and increase value of services by providing universal modern AI-ready data aggregation solution