Case Study: Large-Scale Industrial Laundry Firm achieves real-time, cloud-based productivity monitoring and smart-factory transformation with Advantech

Advantech’s Edge Gateway Platforms Show How “Industry 4.0” is More Than Just a Catchphrase for an Industrial Laundry Business

Large Scale Industrial Laundry Firm, a U.S. industrial laundry operator, faced the challenge of turning traditional, labor‑intensive facilities with legacy machines into connected smart factories and needed cost‑effective, cloud‑based real‑time productivity monitoring across multiple locations. They turned to Advantech and its Industry 4.0 hardware—including the WISE‑4051 wireless I/O counter, UNO‑2272G palm‑size edge gateway, and EKI‑6332GN Wi‑Fi AP/client—to retrofit old equipment and enable data collection without replacing reliable machinery.

Advantech deployed the WISE IoT modules, UNO edge gateways and EKI wireless routers to aggregate on‑site data and push it to an AWS cloud app, allowing automatic collection and real‑time visualization of employee and machine productivity. The result: cloud‑based, multi‑site management with actionable analytics and equipment optimization that improved output and efficiency—delivering measurable productivity monitoring and improvements across the firm’s facilities.