Stepping toward a smarter factory at Canam

Canam Group ("Canam") is a manufacturer of steel components and building products used in the construction industry. The company uses a distributed network of manufacturing centers throughout North America to build and ship joist and deck product to its customers. Each manufacturing center utilizes a similar set of equipment assets in the production process. Equipment assets are not connected to a data collection system capable of monitoring their performance and health. As a result, comparing the performance of similar equipment across sites is a challenge for the organization. The motivation for this thesis is to determine how Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies can be applied to an industrial business like Canam to improve asset monitoring capabilities. An experimental approach is used to demonstrate how IIoT frameworks discussed in literature can be employed in practice.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Woodruff, David(David T.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jung Hoon-Chun and Roy Welsch.

• Sloan School of Management.
• Mechanical Engineering.
• Leaders for Global Operations Program.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126983

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/126983