• Products and solutions for measurement, transmission, and evaluation
  • More than 500 employees (2022)
  • More than €90 million in sales (2022)

    The high-tech specialist Kübler develops and manufactures products and solutions for measurement, transmission and evaluation. With this portfolio, the company is an enabler for Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory. Kübler uses CONTACT's CIM Database for comprehensive PLM and Elements for IoT for shopfloor management and condition monitoring. The specialist benefits in particular from the economical development of a large number of customer-specific variants, from a digital nameplate with all relevant product information, and from the smooth interaction of PLM and IoT thanks to the innovative closed-loop methodology.

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    Task and objective
    • Push forward digitization in the company through a customer-centric approach
    • Introduction of the digital nameplate with all relevant product information for all product families
    • Process reliability through comprehensive project management support
    • Creating the basis for the economic development of numerous customer-specific variants through effective variant management (individual series production/mass customization)
    • Establish a state-of-the-art engineering method by combining PLM and IoT
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    Solution
    • CIM Database as engineering backbone including MCAD and ECAD integrations and comprehensive PLM platform with automated variant management
    • Support of project management processes across the entire value chain
    • Shopfloor management including automated provision of live process data and process metrics for condition monitoring of production lines
    • Orchestration of customer orders from ERP with Shopfloor Navigator as well as shift management and coordination of workers
    • Bi-directional communication between PLM and IoT solution: transfer of BOMs and routings from CIM Database to Elements for IoT − return flow of anomalies from Elements for IoT to CIM Database via ticket system
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    Benefits
    • Data consistency as well as accelerated and more secure processes thanks to a central platform from product development through manufacturing to service
    • Accelerated development of customer applications thanks to automated processes in variant management and consistency through to work planning and production
    • Improved production performance through live monitoring of relevant key figures and automation using trigger and routine processes
    • Improved development process with innovative closed-loop methodology through data feedback from production to PLM
    • Basis for the digital factory and continuous improvement of production

    IIoT for Shopfloor Management and Condition Monitoring

    Foto von Jonas Urlaub, Fritz Kübler

    The high-tech specialist Kübler uses Elements for IoT not only for shopfloor management and condition monitoring in production. Find out how Kübler combines PLM and IoT into a closed-loop process and offers its customers real added value via the digital nameplate.

     

    IIoT for Shopfloor Management and Condition Monitoring

    The high-tech specialist Kübler uses Elements for IoT not only for shopfloor management and condition monitoring in production. Find out how Kübler combines PLM and IoT into a closed-loop process and offers its customers real added value via the digital nameplate.

     

    Foto von Jonas Urlaub, Fritz Kübler

    The high-tech specialist Kübler uses Elements for IoT not only for shopfloor management and condition monitoring in production. Find out how Kübler combines PLM and IoT into a closed-loop process and offers its customers real added value via the digital nameplate.

     

    „We see the solutions we have developed together with CONTACT as a 360° product lifecycle management from the idea through development and series production to the customer.“

    Jonas Urlaub
    Director Digitalization & IIoT, Fritz Kübler