Voith introduces OnCumulus

Voith has announced the launch of OnCumulus, which it describes as an industrial internet of things (IIoT) platform with specific visualization and analytics functionalities and industry-proven applications. “OnCumulus enables customers to leverage data across the enterprise from all equipment within all facilities to optimize reliability, achieve targeted performance and increase savings that impact the bottom line,” according to the company, which has its global headquarters in Heidenheim, Germany. Voith’s U.S. headquarters are in York, Pennsylvania.

The IIoT platform, OnCumulus.Platform, serves as the hub for data from all kinds of sources, including plants, production lines, machines and devices. Customers can benefit from one central platform for their data from which they can launch their digitalization initiatives, the company says. OnCumulus.Platform is based on open-source and highly standardized technologies and is designed to provide fast, reliable and secure access to data from local machines and systems in the cloud. The platform is scalable, flexible and extensible at any time, Voith adds.

Voith’s IIoT platform meets privacy, security and compliance industry standards and best practices, according to the company. OnCumulus customers stay in control of their data in every usage scenario and define the data access. Furthermore, Voith says it supports local control of the data by providing data centers in every region.

The OnCumulus.Suite offering prestructures the available data using visualization and analytical functionalities, helping customers to benefit from tools that provide information flow, monitoring and alarming and analysis.

Voith also is offering its existing product families OnEfficiency and OnCare as cloud-based OnCumulus applications: OnEfficiency Pulp, OnEfficiency.Strength, OnEfficiency.DIP, OnEfficiency.Dewatering and OnCare.Asset. OnEfficiency applications support customers in improving their process efficiency, while OnCare focuses on the availability of assets.

Using the applications on the same cloud-based technical platform, customers can share information from their other sites and apps, leveraging correlation possibilities for more advanced insights and transparency, Voith says. External information sources, including raw material prices, weather data or connections to webshops or warehouses, can be integrated and correlated with existing operational data.

“Thanks to the enormous developments within information and communication technologies, customers can now take the chance to benefit from technologies that offer faster data exchange, big data analytics and cloud solutions,” says Roland Münch, CEO of Voith Digital Solutions. “OnCumulus enables our customers to intelligently benefit from this digital transformation with optimized processes, improved use of resources, flexibility and security so that they improve competitiveness and achieve future viability.”

For more information about OnCumulus, see http://ow.ly/Z2D230jx3tC.