Bharat Forge selected PTC’s ThingWorx IoT Platform after exhaustive due diligence, for its rapid application enablement, connectivity, machine learning capabilities, augmented reality, and integration with leading device cloud offerings.

Yogesh Zope, Group CIO, Bharat Forge said, “Industry 4.0 is critical for India’s manufacturing sector to thrive in the next decade. For this to thrive, the need of the hour is for a strong, scalable IIOT platform to support quick adoption of Industry 4.0 best practices. With PTC’s Thingworx platform we foresee a good synergy in terms of technology and vision for adoption of IIoT in India.”

Kalyan Sridhar, Country Manager, PTC India said, “Bharat Forge Limited is known for constantly enhancing and transforming its manufacturing facilities across the world with latest technologies that improve various aspects of their business. With Bharat Forge now being powered by PTC’s ThingWorx IoT platform, we believe that the company will be able to utilise the latest Industry 4.0 technologies and significantly improve their productivity, innovation and operational efficiency.”

ThingWorx was purpose-built from the ground up for the Internet of Things. It contains the most complete set of integrated IoT-specific development tools and capabilities available, offering the industry’s deepest functional capabilities. ThingWorx makes it easy to develop and deliver powerful Enterprise IoT solutions that deliver transformative business value.

ThingWorx platform will leverage industry 4.0 technologies – artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to reduce product failures. It will reduce downtime caused by unplanned events by sending breaking news alerts of the errors to the proper parties and predict the amount of time until a system fails, improve the quality of products by providing a full digital reporting of products produced, reduce delays in decision making by enabling team members with real-time detailed data and creating dynamic visualisations of the status of production systems and identify trouble spots within the facility by observing real-time data on the factory floor with augmented reality (AR).

Bharat Forge, the world’s largest forging company, has a presence across automotive, power, oil and gas, construction and mining, rail, marine and aerospace. It has manufacturing facilities spread across India, Germany, Sweden, France and North America, to manufacture a wide range of high performance, critical and safety components for the automotive and non-automotive sector.

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