HEITEC Smart Factory Starter-Kit

HEITEC Smart Factory Starter-Kit wird unterstützt von Heitec

HEITEC AG, headquartered in Erlangen, has stood for excellence in automation, digitalization, electronics, and plant engineering for over 50 years. With more than 1,200 employees, HEITEC develops customized solutions that enhance productivity and efficiency across various industries. By combining automation with digital engineering, HEITEC supports companies on their journey toward the Smart Factory. As a partner in the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace, HEITEC offers innovative, scalable solutions for a connected and future-ready industry.

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Warum Tangible IoT - the first step towards intelligent production?

The Smart Factory Starter Kit exists to enable a fast, low-risk entry into industrial digitalization. It serves manufacturers and OEMs, especially SMEs, who want to connect existing machines. It addresses lack of transparency in production, energy use, and performance by enabling simple data acquisition, visualization, and analysis.

Vorteile

The StarterKit provides low-threshold, easy-to-use access to smart factory solutions no matter how old or already automated your machines are. Benefit from smooth scaling in accordance with your particular business needs
The Starter Kit integrates easily into existing IT/OT landscapes thanks to a wide range of connectors and open interfaces, enabling seamless connection to machines, systems, and enterprise applications without complex customization.
The Starter Kit enables a cost-efficient entry into digitalization with low initial investment and predictable costs. Its standardized approach keeps scaling costs low when rolling out to additional machines, lines, or sites.
Preconfigured components and guided onboarding ensure rapid implementation, allowing users to generate insights and measurable benefits within a short time, without lengthy projects or complex engineering effort.

Besondere Funktionen

GPIO configuration interface on laptop screen

Machine Data Acquisition

Connect virtually any machine (even “brownfield”/existing ones) via digital or analogue inputs to capture real-time production data, enabling condition monitoring, OEE evaluation and better machine utilisation.

OPC UA Interface configuration on laptop screen

Secure Connectivity & Data Integration

Use the built-in gateway and secure protocols (e.g. OPC UA, LTE/MQTTS) to connect machines to the HEITEC Solution Center — collecting, managing and visualising data in the cloud for real-time status, analytics, and actionable insights.

Energy & Resource Monitoring

Track electricity and compressed-air consumption (and related CO₂ equivalents) per unit or batch, giving transparency into energy costs and carbon footprint to support sustainable, cost-efficient production.

Anwendungen in der Praxis

Brownfield and Greenfield process improvement

The StarterKit enables process improvements, e.g. OEE optimization, in Brownfield and Greenfield, no matter how old and automated your production equipment is.