Hauzer | Industry 4.0

Project description

Main question: "How can data produced on Hauzer machines be used to increase the value for the customers?"

Goal of the project: "Bring added value to Hauzer's clients by providing them the ability to track, compare and evaluate the batches' performance from machines supplied by Hauzer"

Context

Founded in 1993, Hauzer has made a name for itself as pioneer in PVD coating equipment. Hauzer uses their creativity, engineering skills and relentless customer focus to create coating systems that make a difference – both in the businesses of their customers and in the lives and work of the people who use their products.

Hauzer has decades of experience in creating top-of-the-line coating systems. This has led to a wide range of mature, proven coating technologies in our respective fields. Hauzer’s embrace of engineering as a core focus has resulted in a joint portfolio of PVD, PACVD, CVD, CVA and CVI solutions that is unique in the world.

Hauzer is able to deliver solutions that are long-lasting, sustainable and future-proof, because they focus on collaboration. With Hauzer’s suppliers, international universities and research institutes, and with fellow IHI group companies, including globally active coating service provider Ionbond. Hauzer still has machines in the field that were first commissioned decades ago – made possible by our commitment to service, innovation and upgradeability.

Results

We have managed the following things during the project;
- Doing research on Hauzer's current status in this project
- Project proposal
- Collect Machine Data
- Doing Research on Microsoft Azure and its services
- Doing Research on Python & SQL/MySQL
- Making the infrastructure design
- Building Azure Cloud Platform
- Building MySQL Database and making tables
- Implementation of Python Code in Azure Cloud & MySQL Queries
- Delivering Advise
- Delivering Documentation
- Presenting the results to Hauzer

About the project group

Our group is a sub-group of the main company: SimplyIT.
Our group consists of 4 students and the client was also actively working together with us.
The following days were scheduled for the groups to be present and be working at Fontys TQ Eindhoven;
Monday - Present, Working together + Client also present + Monday start-ups with company
Tuesday - At home, Working individually
Wednesday - At home, Working individualy
Thursday - Present, Working together + Content coach meetings with Mark Klerkx
Friday - Present, Show & Grow with company
We scheduled sprints in our planning to finalize our project, which were 18 weeks in total.
The sprints were split evenly over the weeks as deliverables, with two weeks blank at the end for if anything goes wrong: Define, Research, Design, Develop, Test and Deliver.