OVERVIEW
VEM Sistemi is an Italian System Integrator providing ICT solutions. The company chose beSharp as a technological partner to create Factorii Easy Production Improvement, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed for managing all the digital factory functions (Industry 4.0), in particular, performance real-time monitoring and planned and predictive maintenance of industrial machinery in order to improve production processes.
THE CHALLENGE
- Providing customers with an effective solution for the monitoring and the control of the industrial machinery performances to detect resource wastefulness or malfunctions and intervene instantly with planned or predictive maintenance.
- Implementing a multi-tenant, highly available solution, able to adapt to any type of workload, growing along with their business by responding with adaptive scaling
- Automating the deployment phases, simplifying control and management of the infrastructure and implementing standard processes of testing and validation of each release.
THE SOLUTION
- Realizzazione di un motore di Data Ingestion per macchinari industriali (IoT) sviluppato con tecnologia Serverless tramite l’uso di AWS IoT Core, API Gateway and funzioni Lambda.
- Implementation of the SaaS delivery model for the distribution of the new product designed and built according to the Well-Architected Framework and to the AWS SaaS best practices.
- Introduction of CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy services and of a new efficient separation of development, staging and production environments through the use of the Infrastructure-as-Code paradigm.
THE BENEFITS
Optimization
Thanks to a microservice architecture, VEM Sistemi was able to optimize resource consumption, costs, and performances while keeping a granular control over every single resource.
Business
Through the SaaS delivery model, VEM Sistemi has revolutionized the product distribution process and achieved global reach. Maintainability and troubleshooting have been exponentially improved, too.
Automation
Thanks to the automation of the deployment phases, VEM Sistemi has speeded up both the development and the production processes and obtained tools for the early detection of bugs and for the prediction of malfunctions.
ABOUT BESHARP AND AWS
beSharp has developed for VEM Sistemi a SaaS Industry 4.0 solution using the services provided by Amazon Web Services.
The beSharp team took care of the design phases of the infrastructure in compliance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and then proceeded with the implementation of the service according to DevOps best practices.
Through an on-the-job training approach, beSharp has also provided VEM Sistemi developers with the tools they need to understand and master the concepts and the tools the SaaS paradigm is based on to enable them to take full advantage of it.
- AWS CodeBuild
- AWS CodeCommit
- AWS CodeDeploy
- AWS CodePipeline
- AWS Lambda,
- SaaS
