Example 5 of 6 · IRIS book

3:12 a.m. — The kiln panel

The oldest machine in the plant, without a single data port, gets connected with a low-cost camera facing its panel: readings every few seconds and the firing curve posted into central memory and the ERP, 24/7. A camera, a bracket, and one afternoon of installation.

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Editorial illustration: at 3:12 a.m. a fixed low-cost camera points at the kiln's analog panel and its firing curve appears posted into central memory and the ERP.

The case, as told in the book

What exactly happens at 3:12 a.m.?

The kiln is the oldest machine in the plant: a panel from another era, without a single data port. A low-cost camera mounted in front of the panel reads the indicators every few seconds, interprets them, and posts the firing curve into the central memory and the ERP, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Without touching the machine, without calling the manufacturer: a camera, a bracket, and one afternoon of installation. In tile, glass, and a good part of industry, veteran machinery is most of the installed base — and it ends up as connected as the brand-new line.

Case fact sheet · Channel: panel photograph — fixed low-cost camera · System: IRIS Connect — 24/7 visual capture

IRIS hardcover, English edition, by Sebastian J. Brau with a foreword by Jay Lee

This case is one of the six in the “Practical Examples” chapter

“Practical Examples” walks through a working day in a plant with six different entry channels: an email, a label, a WhatsApp message, a photograph, a panel, and the voice. It is part of IRIS, by Sebastian J. Brau (foreword by Jay Lee, University of Maryland).

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The other five cases

One day in a plant, six entry channels.

Editorial illustration: at 5:00 a.m. order emails in Excel, PDF and plain text become a unified order book and three plan proposals the head of planning compares on screen.

5:00 a.m.

Orders come in on their own

 Editorial illustration: at 7:31 a.m. the production manager photographs the first unit's label, the system flags the expiration-date discrepancy, holds the printer and distributes the alert to quality and the line technician.

7:31 a.m.

The plant's paperwork

 Editorial illustration: at 8:40 a.m. a WhatsApp message reports a broken down truck; on screen, the affected purchase order and the proposed replanning with reshuffled orders and alerts to sales, warehouse and line.

8:40 a.m.

The trucker's WhatsApp

 Editorial illustration: at 12:10 p.m. the quality manager photographs an automotive part in the inspection area and the screen shows a scratch, a burr and pores classified by severity, with the proposed hold.

12:10 p.m.

The part in the inspection area

 Editorial illustration: Sunday at 6:40 p.m., the on-call technician checks the incident and its history on his phone while the earpiece guides him step by step, hands-free.

Sunday, 6:40 p.m.

The voice in the earpiece

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Is the case of the kiln panel real?

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Does it apply to my sector?

This case's entry channel — the panel photograph — is universal: it exists in every plant, whatever the product is called. The dossier includes the sector reading.