Foundry giant Grede has embarked on a major digitalization project to deploy advanced Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology at all nine of its North American foundries. Grede chose Norican Group’s Monitizer | DISCOVER IIoT solution for the project. Four months after going live, every foundry running the new system has cut its scrap rate.
Serving the complex needs of the automotive, heavy truck and industrial sectors, Grede operates nine foundries and three machining centers across the USA. In 2020, Grede put digitalizing its production at the heart of its strategy.
“We’re moving from the art of the foundry to the science of metalcasting™,” says Cary Wood, Grede’s CEO. “Systems and innovation are critical to our success. We will use data and AI to take the variability out of our process to produce high-quality castings at lower cost.”