Case Study: Brose Group accelerates factory data analytics and IIoT rollout with Ultra Tendency

Brose Group - Customer Case Study

The Brose Group, a major automotive supplier, sought to leverage its production data to generate more value and strengthen its competitive edge. Its vision was to build an end-to-end platform connecting shopfloor machinery to a central cloud analytics system for applications like AI and monitoring dashboards. To achieve this, Brose partnered with Ultra Tendency to undertake two interconnected projects: an Industrial IoT (IIOT) platform for data connectivity and a central Data-Driven Brose (DDB) analytics platform.

Ultra Tendency implemented the solution using the Eclipse IoT stack and Confluent for the IIoT platform to connect machinery with low latency, and built the DDB data lake on AWS. The results were impactful; within the first year, the platform hosted use cases that used machine learning to classify welding seams in near real-time, becoming a decisive factor in reducing costs and increasing quality. Another use case provided analytical dashboards to shopfloor workers to optimize workflows. Ultra Tendency's work enabled quick rollouts of new applications and established a robust, secure foundation for Brose's continued data-driven transformation.

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