FasThink Connect Orchestrator “the heart of the system”
The FasThink Connect Orchestrator platform for integrating and harmonising IoT and Auto ID components and technologies.
The FasThink package consists of scalable technologies for integration with existing IT systems that optimally and efficiently meet the broadest requirements of the Industry 4.0 model and the Smart Factory. It is a network system built around Connect Orchestrator, the technology platform that enables orchestration between IT systems such as ERP, WMS, MES, MOM and a whole range of technologies and field systems that FasThink covers with proprietary or licensed technology.
Connect Orchestrator is the simplest and most modular solution for managing information related to Production and Logistics. The combination of Connect Orchestrator and FasThink Smart Solutions can transform processes, reduce costs and improve the speed and accuracy of individual operations. Connect Orchestrator, the smart solution for overall management.
Connect Orchestrator by FasThink is the smartest solution for the overall management of information on production and logistics; from design data to the contents of the management system and to the data collected during production via components and systems based on the most innovative technology, such as RFID identification, Pick2Light, e-Kanban sensor, Mobile Robot, Blockchain, AR Augmented Reality and Yard Management System, as well as IOT components and technologies.
The main objective of Connect Orchestrator is to offer solutions for the improvement of processes by monitoring all operational steps and providing data in a simple and aggregatable manner according to the needs of the company and the individual operators.
One of the distinguishing features of Connect Orchestrator by FasThink is its scalability, as it is possible to add specific modules over time in addition to the basic system module to integrate components and solutions with a range of innovative technologies. One example, which is ever increasingly requested in medium and large-scale manufacturing, is the RFID system integrated with Pick2Light wireless-touchless and with e-Kanban sensor, or RFID and ESL Electronic Shelf Labels systems, right up to Blockchain for the retail sector.
Connectors for data exchange to information systems are based on Web service technologies, DBMSs, file systems, intermediate tables, OPC UA, MQTT, GPRC (Google Remote Procedure Code), Fieldbus
In addition, the system can be certified to guarantee data protection to prevent hacking and protect sensitive data (Cyber security).
Connect Orchestrator by FasThink has been installed in many industrial processes by leading companies in Italy and abroad, and has a proven track record of reliability, efficiency and advantageous ROI (Return on Investment).
In a by-now consolidated evolutionary model, the figure of the Mobile Robot is considered by Industry 4.0 as functional to increasingly rapid and fluid interaction between Logistics and Manufacturing.
As a certified solution provider, FasThink guides and harmonises the integration of Mobile Robots within the Industry 4.0 model for the ERP, MES, MOM, WMS management systems.
The Connect Orchestrator platform in the “MRC” version, developed by FasThink R&D specifically for the integration and orchestration of Mobile Robots, AGVs and Collaborative Robots, is fully capable of handling a range of technologies, such as proprietary Pick2Light and e-Kanban sensor systems which are usually synchronised in a Manufacturing & Logistics environment, for example with the MRC (Mobile Robot Control) module.
FasThink chose the AMR Autonomous Mobile Robots for this particular application as they represent a breakthrough in the optimisation of manufacturing and logistics. Integrated with FasThink’s proprietary Pick2Light and e-Kanban sensor systems, they increase productivity, eliminate errors and improve material traceability, while allowing staff to focus on more complex tasks. In addition, unlike traditional AGVs, AMR mobile robots “navigate” by using existing system functionality, without the need for costly modifications. Ideal for SMEs.
Designed to meet the industry’s Next Gen requirements, the interaction of Connect Orchestrator MRC, FasThink Pick2Light and e-Kanban proprietary systems with AMR Mobile Robots opens up a new front for SMEs, enabling them to finally see people and machines interacting in a modern, collaborative and safe working environment.
Advantages
- FasThink Connect Orchestrator is the heart of the entire system
- Capitalises the Management System in use
- Orchestrates and simplifies the entire Manufacturing and Logistics process
- Integrates IOT and Auto ID systems and technologies
- Simple, delivers high performance, and reduces time, errors and management costs
- Scalable and modular web architecture
- Shared data exchange via web services, MQTT protocol, GRPC (Google Remote Procedure Code), file systems and intermediate tables
- Integrated diagnostics
- Cyber security compliant