From smart thermostats that can learn your temperature preferences and adjust accordingly to smart cars that can park themselves, these days practically everything is automated and connected to the internet. Smart refrigerators can even order groceries when you’re running low. Advances in technology have completely revolutionized our world by improving efficiencies and reducing costly human errors. Given the countless advantages of smart machines, why do many manufacturers still use outdated “dumb” equipment in their factories and assembly plants?

In order to stay ahead of market rivals, it’s crucial that industrial businesses implement smart solutions to increase productivity, decrease waste and widen profit margins. Manufacturers must adapt to this new age characterized by the Internet-of-Things (IoT), or become one of its casualties. If your company is in danger of falling behind the times and the competition, Contec can help your business leap into the 21st century.

For over two decades, Contec has helped manufacturers integrate modern technologies into their current production equipment and assembly lines. Today, the company leads the way in the development of smart factories that utilize automated, smart machines to execute the production process. These machines can communicate with one another and connect to the internet to analyze data and learn behavior for maximum optimization. In addition, our IoT controllers connect to cloud services to offer the customer accessibility, and remote diagnostics and controls to their products, machines and processes to maximize efficiency and reduce operation and maintenance costs.

Contec provides comprehensive solutions to complex industrial problems by upgrading systems with cutting-edge, machine-to-machine technology. The advancements yield significantly increased efficiencies, improved product quality, lower operating costs, and decreased downtime as equipment can predict and prevent maintenance issues before they arise. Contec’s mission goes beyond installing products, and encompasses planned implementation so that systems and subsystems operate in precise algorithmic harmony to deliver unparalleled accuracy.

Just how critical are smart machines to the future of manufacturing? Morgan Stanley expects Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)-related spending to increase from ~8 percent of industrial companies’ capital budgets to ~18 percent over the next five years. Within the next decade, virtually every sector of the economy, from agriculture to transportation, will be dramatically altered by ever-evolving hardware, software, and systems that connect to the internet for enhanced human and machine collaborations. Industrial manufacturing will not escape the IoT revolution currently transforming our world, nor should it try. Instead, companies must embrace modern technologies to survive and to thrive in the digital era.

Contec provides innovative, comprehensive and customized IoT solutions for upgrading traditional industrial plants into smart factories for the marketplace of today and tomorrow. The new technology more than pays for itself through the improvements in efficiencies obtained by data intelligence. If you’re ready to harness analytics and the power of the IoT in your manufacturing operation, connect with Contec.