Putting Our Money Where Our Office is with ERIKS e-Connect

The Kingswinford premises is home to the Centre of Expertise for Power Transmission, and for the team, it’s the perfect location for establishing testing and diagnostics capabilities unparalleled across the industry.

To bring the whole project together, the ERIKS Brain project team was set up to exploit the potential of sensing, monitoring, controlling, testing and diagnostics capabilities, in one time-saving, money-saving customer app.

When two plus two is five

Collecting data about asset functionality is nothing new. Where ERIKS’ new building goes further is by gathering together individual data points, analysing them in combination, and then making an assumption based on that information.

In isolation, the data doesn’t tell you much, but analysed by a human, with a dash of added intuition, might tell you more. What ERIKS has done is bring together the technology and data, and combined with its artificial intelligence.

Cold, hard facts

It’s this capability to gather real-time data, analyse it quickly and act on it through automation which makes the ERIKS’ smart building applicable to industry. The key factor is that monitoring and analysis of data enables decision-making based on hard facts, not supposition, so the answers will always be valid and actionable – with observable results.

Putting it to the test

While the ERIKS Brain project team assesses the potential for industrial monitoring and control, and works towards developing an ERIKS app, customers are already benefitting.

With all this in mind, the result is more efficient testing, quicker results, faster and more accurate fault diagnosis and less downtime. That’s smart thinking, in a smart building.