Efforts to Make Maintenance Work Smarter

Abstract

Japanese society is facing a shortage of labor force and a decrease in skilled engineers due to falling birthrate and the aging population. This is also an important issue for us and we have taken on various challenges to improve productivity and pass on technology. In Germany, the concept “Papermaking4.0” is set up as part of Fourth Industrial Revolution and paper mills are becoming smarter and more productive.

For these reasons, our company “Oji Materia Co., Ltd — Matumoto Mill”, have attempted to make us smart to use IoT technology since last year. There are many methods to make smart such as using a platform that major vender has released for making smart of whole mill and analyzing the data obtained from the reasonable sensor on cloud.

In the past, when the introduction of DCS progressed rapidly in paper mill, benefits of DCS could be expected. However the benefits of IoT are unknown for us. So we decided to verify the usefulness of IoT technology by using reasonable tools.