Established in mid-2018, the ADAMOS (ADAptive Manufacturing Open Solutions) platform looks to provide state-of-the-art industrial software and solutions, independent of specific software vendors. Founded by Software AG, the aim of ADAMOS is to ultimately connect businesses from across supply chains using one tailored and multifaceted IIoT platform; however, there must first be a starting point and therefore current basic functionalities of the software include device connectivity and management, real-time analytics and visualisation, workflow automation and enterprise, and cloud integration.
Since its launch, ADAMOS has been collecting prominent industry partners including key textile machinery provider Karl Mayer. As an open IIoT platform ADAMOS is said to be paving the way to digitally networked manufacturing and intelligent services, and it is exactly this which has attracted the platform’s second textile industry heavyweight, Oerlikon Manmade Fibres.
Oerlikon comments that with this move, the company is ramping up its digital strategy, creating the right framework for implementing its concrete Industry 4.0 solutions. The bundled know-how on the ADAMOS platform from machine construction, production and information technology providers is designed to help the Oerlikon Manmade Fibers segment develop digital solutions, promote new business models and establish a specific standard for the textiles industry.
Even at ITMA Asia in the fall of last year, the Oerlikon segment with its Oerlikon Barmag and Oerlikon Neumag brands was able to secure new customers thanks to its digital products, the company says. AIM4DTY – Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing for DTY – for example, is a digital system that is trained by means of artificial intelligence so that it continually optimises the running production process. Faults and deviations are identified more swiftly, enabling operators to initiate targeted troubleshooting measures.
At last year’s OpenStack Summit in Berlin, Germany, CEO Georg Stausberg presented a further digital Oerlikon Manmade Fibers innovation: Data Center in a Box. With this, Oerlikon is offering its customers a new high-performance, flexible and above all secure IT infrastructure. The compact computing centre works on the basis of the open OpenStack operating system, which enables virtual computing in a secure private cloud environment. “We are working on a whole range of digital solutions that will offer our customers very concrete added value,” says Georg Stausberg.
As Adrian Wilson reported back in August 2018, Oerlikon’s fellow ADAMOS partners, in addition to Karl Mayer, are:
- Zeiss – the €5.4bn leader in optical systems, industrial measurement technology and medical devices.
- Dürr, headquartered in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, one of the world’s leading mechanical and plant engineering firms with significant automation and robotics expertise. Around 55% of Dürr’s 2017 sales of €3.7bn were to the automotive industry.
- DMG Mori, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of cutting machine tools and a manufacturer of CNC-controlled lathes and milling machines. Headquartered in Bielefeld, Germany, and with 2017 sales of over €2.3bn, the company’s products include machines, industrial services and software and energy solutions.
- Software AG, an enterprise software company with over 10,000 customers in over 70 countries. The company is the second largest software vendor in Germany, and the seventh largest in Europe, with 2017 sales of €879m.
- Hong Kong headquartered ASM Pacific Technology, a leading integrated solutions provider to the semiconductor and electronics industries, with sales in 2017 of €2.25bn.
- Schwertberg, Austria, headquartered Engel, one of the leading manufacturers of injection moulding machinery for the plastics industry, with 2017 sales of €1.5bn.
Oerlikon is added to this mix as a business that has a global footprint of over 9,500 employees at 171 locations in 37 countries. In 2017, Oerlikon generated over US$2.1bn in restated sales and invested around US$100m in R&D.
