What are the Benefits of Digital Transformation for Chemical Manufacturing?
The chemical manufacturing industry is grappling with several challenges, including supply chain disturbances, quality assurance hurdles, and heightened regulatory scrutiny impacting its capacity to transition products from R&D to market swiftly. To overcome these challenges, chemical manufacturing embraces digital technologies like Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT (IIoT) for these outcomes:
Improve efficiency
Automate processes and use data analytics to improve efficiency across manufacturing lines and locations.
Optimize the supply chain
Track the entire supply chain, resulting in improved inventory management and demand forecasting.
Enhance quality control
Apply real-time monitoring and analytics to quickly identify and fix issues before they negatively affect quality.
Improve safety
Monitor safety systems and hazardous conditions, thereby improving worker safety and reducing downtime.
Enabling Regulatory Compliance
The chemical manufacturing industry must comply with a complex set of government regulations. An effective compliance program is essential to prevent business disruptions and loss of reputation. As a result, chemical manufacturers must maintain strict quality control, detailed product information, and continuous data integration between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems. These goals can be achieved by adopting IIoT technologies. Chemical manufacturing companies rely on HiveMQ to help them:
Automate regulatory compliance reporting
Enable traceability to support audit management and product recalls
Perform remote monitoring
Accelerate product innovations
Overcoming Challenges for Digital Transformation
There are a number of challenges chemical manufacturing companies must overcome while implementing IIoT solutions, including:
Disparate systems that don’t talk to each other seamlessly
Legacy infrastructure and manual processes especially for regulatory and compliance reporting
Lack of strong connectivity availability and reliability
Manufacturers need a solution that can consistently overcome these data challenges, and MQTT is a lightweight publish/subscribe protocol that does that by:
Deploying lightweight MQTT clients on various systems, allowing data to seamlessly flow between OT and IT systems through an MQTT broker
Connecting efficiently to existing infrastructure and thus avoiding huge investments
Enabling easy digitization of operations to enable regulatory compliance reporting and safe practices
Providing simple and reliable data connections that work in poor connectivity environments, using less bandwidth
Providing for the traceability of data across the business
HiveMQ is an MQTT platform designed for the fast, efficient, and reliable movement of data to and from chemical manufacturing plant machines, processes, applications, and enterprise systems on premise or on the cloud to enable IIoT and digital transformation.
Chemical Manufacturing Typical Architecture Using HiveMQ MQTT Platform
Why HiveMQ for Chemical Manufacturing?
HiveMQ solves the challenges of data collection and movement in chemical manufacturing by adding a reliable, scalable and secure data abstraction layer between OT and IT systems that enables heterogeneous machines and processes to work together seamlessly even in constrained environments.
Business Critical Reliability
Operate mission-critical systems reliably 24/7 with zero message loss and redundant clustering technology.
Scalability to Support Growth
Add any number of assets and scale to millions of connected devices seamlessly with a linear design for scalability.
Flexible Integration
Focus on your core business instead of using developer resources with data integration into enterprise applications and infrastructure like Apache Kafka.
End-to-End Security
Ensure applications and data meet the highest security standards with end-to-end encryption and configurable security controls.
Observable Insights
Troubleshoot and keep all systems running as planned with tools and metrics for transparency and observability.
Simple-to-Deploy
Achieve rapid time-to-value with a platform that is flexible enough to deploy on-premise, in any cloud, or via the fully-managed and feature-rich HiveMQ Cloud offering.
Business Value Pricing
HiveMQ prices its offerings based on the value you derive, not on speed and feeds. There is no need to count messages or integrations, rather we align to specific business goals and outcomes. Specifically, we offer pricing based on:
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Number of Plants or Locations
How many plants or locations do you need to support and over what time period?
Complexity of Each Location
How many devices and protocol types need to be supported per plant?
Deployment Options
Do you need us to run the software for you, or will you self-manage the deployment? What is the relationship between plants and headquarters?
Time Commitment
Are you looking for a multi-year deal or to renew each year?
Key Resources to Understand Chemical Manufacturing and MQTT
Knowledge-packed resources showcasing how MQTT, MQTT Sparkplug, and HiveMQ platform can transform Chemical Manufacturing.
Accelerate digital transformation, digitization and IIoT for your chemical manufacturing with MQTT Sparkplug.
Learn how implementing MQTT Sparkplug specification early on in the data architecture can provide additional benefits to chemical manufacturing companies by enabling mission-critical, real-time OT operations.
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