Bradbury

The Bradbury Group of manufacturing companies is dedicated to producing high-quality, productivity enhancing metal processing equipment for customers around the world. They needed a solution that readied their customers as well as their own operations for digitalization and efficiency.

By adopting the Stratus ztC Edge platform – running Rockwell Thin Manager® and FactoryTalk® – for their rolling machines, Bradbury Group moved from multiple standalone stations to a centralized distributed visualization platform which reduced costs, resolved downtime issues, and even discovered a new profit-driver for their business providing customer support services.

Craig Resnick - Vice President ARC - Advisory Group

“ztC Edge is designed to provide remote application management, more rapid and efficient multi-site deployment, improved security, and high availability of critical business operations and applications.”

Challenges

  • Increased efficiency and flexibility of machines by adding compute capability
  • Reduce development, deployment, and revision update times
  • Increase customer uptime with quick replacement hardware, redundancy, and automated system backup

Solutions

  • Stratus ztC Edge deployed on the plant floor
  • Rockwell Automation ThinManagerTM
  • Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® View Site Edition

Benefits

  • Eliminated unplanned downtime
  • Used virtualization to consolidate workloads on a single ztC Edge computing platform
  • Enabled support services as a new customer offering
  • Reduced engineering and maintenance costs