Offering

Connected Factories

A modular service offering helps manufacturers uncoverand visualize continuous insights to cut costs, improve
productivity and design next-generation products.
Industry 4.0 is ushering in a new era togain greater visibility and insights withinterconnectivity, machine learningand realtime data. The promise is real.
Envision the possibilities. What if you
knew the state of everything in a factoryand could sense, act and learn from its
data. What problems would you solve?
Reduce COGS? Minimize throughput
constraints? Increase asset utilization?
Are you ready to get started?

Our offering
Cognizant’s Connected Factories
offering eliminates data siloes andcreates a unified view of performancethrough a scalable, future-proof data
platform and the digitization of physicalassets. It relies on a proven toolkit thatuses OnePlant™ and APEx as reference
models, based on best practices anddesign principles from 50 Fortune 500
clients. It leverages partnerships with

best-of-breed internet of things (IoT) platforms,
gateways, sensors, and analytics, as well as
manufacturing execution, product lifecycle andquality management systems.
Cognizant works with you to:
1. Assess: Using the Cognizant OnePlant™
Framework, we conduct a maturity
assessment, help scope desired outcomes,
identify the optimal technology andarchitecture, and create a phased roadmap
to achieve predefined metrics. This fixedduration, fixed-price engagement minimizes
costs by leveraging existing investments andequipment, introducing sensors and adaptors
wherever possible and advising on ways toreduce CapEx.
2. Develop and Deploy: We leverage our Asset
Performance Excellence Framework todeliver a Lighthouse project to prove thevalue of a Connected Factory prototype. We
then deploy and scale the solution into fullproduction and sensor-enable physical plant
assets for proactive remote management.
We map edge data to operational
technology and enterprise systems, wheremachine learning can aid in faster decisionmaking across factory floor operations.
3. Sustain and Adapt: Our IoT Nerve Center
managed service refines knowledge models
for continuous improvement and scalability
across plants. It is available on an outputbased pricing model or on a pod-based fixedcapacity basis.

Our clients have seen up
to 55% improvements in
productivity and as muchas 40% reductions inmaintenance costs throughConnected Factory initiatives.

Benefits
The connected factory unifies and visualizes
operational data to meet changing market
needs. Manufacturers can use insights from theirfactories to make better technology choices, cut
implementation costs and unlock value.
Results include:• 15%–30% average reduction in plant
operating costs.
• 45%–55% increase in labor productivity throughassistive technologies for faster execution andincreased accuracy.
• 10%–40% reduction in maintenance costs and30%–50% cut in downtime.
• 10%–20% reduction in cost of quality byminimizing scrap and waste.

Getting started

An Advisory Assessment evaluates yourcurrent technologies and processes to identify
inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
We scope your desired outcomes, benchmark
your current performance and estimate theimpacts of each improvement area. We thendeliver a phased roadmap that identifies theoptimal technology and architecture todeploy in a pilot.

Case study:
Diversified global manufacturer
Our client needed to improve its 60% labor
efficiency and 10% scrap rates andto automate its data gathering andmonitoring for operational equipment
effectiveness.
Within two years, we identified criticalimprovement areas and partners, createda reference architecture and deployed thesolution in 16 plants. We helped create a
Center of Excellence for “smart factory”
and workforce upskilling, and plan todeploy the solution to 20 more plants.
We will deliver $25–$30 million in value
over 36 months, with a target of $300–$500 million by 2022.

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IoT leaders anticipate that their IoT
use cases will boost their gross profitsby 13% over the next three years threetimes as much as IoT laggards.
— McKinsey Digital: What separates leadersfrom laggards in the internet of things.

Recent accolades
Cognizant named ISG Global Leader
in IoT Transformational Services—Manufacturing IoT
HFS Research ranked Cognizant #14 in
Top 50 Engineering Firms

Why Cognizant?
Companies look to our more than 25 years of experience in engineering IT⁄OT systems to accelerate theircapabilities. We bring together teams of industry domain, software and embedded engineering, IoT and AIspecialists to design, deploy and manage solutions that continuously leverage manufacturing data insights.
As a primary developer for AWS, PTC, Microsoft and Aveva technologies, we have unique insights into helping
clients select and deploy the right solution.
To learn more, www.cognizant.com/IoT

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stayahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we’re improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.

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