RAFI: Retrofitting at the touch of a button and IoT

How production and logistics processes are becoming smart

RAFI, a global component manufacturer, enables industrial companies to quickly and easily digitize manual processes themselves. But how? With a sophisticated combination of networked lights, switches and a smart IoT solution from Device Insight. Read more about the realization of a retrofitting approach in our case study.

In our case study:

learn how RAFI is implementing an innovative digital business model using state-of-the-art IoT technology – as well as benefiting from it in its own production and logistics.
learn about the technology behind the RAFI IoT solution – a combination of ready-made IoT building blocks, matching Azure services and specially designed front-end services.
gain insight into the benefits of working with an experienced IoT partner, thanks to whom RAFI has saved development time and implemented a retrofitting solution offering rapid efficiency gains and ROI.

Use Cases

How are end customers benefiting?

Quality control

A manufacturer of sensor products and electromechanical components has digitized quality inspection of manufacturing islands on a KPI basis. For this purpose, input from the test device is transmitted to the IoT portal.

Material supply

A manufacturer of hydraulic presses and electric press drives has made material transport in production more targeted and efficient. Interruptions are minimized by the IoT solution.

Waste logistics

The application at RAFI shows internally how to optimize waste management on demand, saving time and costs thanks to an IoT-based solution.

The most important features

Analysis tools & benchmarking

Digital twins

Automatic alerting

Asset management

Role and rights model

Retrofitting at the touch of a button and IoT

To help companies across all industries visualize their analog manufacturing workflows with the simplest of tools and take production efficiency to a new level, RAFI has developed a universal solution with the support of IoT specialist Device Insight: KIS.ME – KEEP IT SIMPLE. MANAGE EVERYTHING. At the heart of the retrofitting approach is an intuitive and flexibly configurable IoT portal named KIS.MANAGER. Here, ready-made IoT components were combined with suitable Azure IoT services and extended by services in the front-end framework designed specifically for RAFI.

"Together with our partner Device Insight, we succeeded in building an IoT solution ideally suited to our requirements within a very short time, forming the core of our retrofitting suite KIS.ME. Our KIS.ME customers achieve great savings in production and are enthusiastic about its easy handling."

Moritz Futterer

Head of Product Management & Product Marketing, RAFI

Smart retrofitting

Learn from the example of RAFI how processes in production and logistics are digitized with a SaaS solution – without years of development and escalating costs.