Factory Kit, the industry’s first quick-start solution for powering digital manufacturing, is an intuitive self-service solution that includes everything that engineers need to quickly design, build and deploy Manufacturing Apps without writing code.
Factory Kit leverages Tulip’s award-winning Manufacturing App Platform, which brings the power of Industrial IoT and advanced analytics to the front-line engineer and the associate on the shop floor. Manufacturing Apps integrate human, sensor, and machine data, allowing engineers to gain actionable insights, implement process changes, and continuously improve their operations. Factory Kit provides access to Tulip’s cloud-based Manufacturing App Platform as well as sample apps and analytics ready to use out of the box.
The Kit includes the building blocks engineers need to get started with Manufacturing Apps, including a Tulip I/O Gateway that lets them connect their devices to the apps they build and the Tulip Light Kit for driving Pick-to-Light (PTL) processes. Also bundled with the kit are an array of IoT sensors and devices including a break beam sensor, environmental sensors, barcode scanner, foot pedal and tower light. Factory Kit lets engineers go from prototype to production in a few hours, on their own, without needing to know how to code. The time-to-value for the Kit is unprecedented in the industry. The Tulip Factory Kit gives manufacturers the chance to push bottom-up digital transformation initiatives and empower their engineers—the people closest to their operations—with the tools they need to digitize their processes.
