Unlocking the Power of Machine Data with Barbara Edge AI at CORREA.

Unlocking New Value Through Servitization in Machinery Manufacturing

Nicolás Correa S.A. is a leading Spanish manufacturer of medium and large-sized milling machines, serving industries such as aerospace, automotive, energy, and general machinery.

Correa sought to transition from a traditional hardware-focused business to a service-driven model by embedding Edge AI technology into its machines. This transformation aimed to enable real-time data processing, predictive maintenance, remote monitoring, and performance optimization to improve efficiency and create new revenue streams.

Product servitization has been around for nearly 30 years, but what is different today is the inclusion of emerging and enabling technologies like IoT, Edge Computing, and AI to support the transition from user-owned to provider-owned assets that are wrapped with asset life cycle services.

Servitization is no longer just an industry trend it’s the future of manufacturing, fueled by IoT, Edge AI, and industrial data analytics.

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By integrating Barbara’s Edge AI technology into its machines, CORREA is shifting from a hardware-focused model to a service-driven approach. This transformation enables CORREA to go beyond selling machines by offering value-added digital services.

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Main Challenges CORREA Faced

🔹 Limited Data Access & Monitoring
Traditional IoT platforms restricted access to machine data. When connectivity was lost, critical insights disappeared, leaving CORREA unable to monitor performance effectively.

🔹 Loss of Data Ownership
With machine data stored in a vendor-controlled cloud, CORREA had no direct access or full ownership, limiting its ability to leverage insights independently.

🔹 Lack of Real-Time Processing
CORREA’s reliance on PLCs for data collection meant machines could read data but not process it in real time, reducing the potential for immediate optimizations and predictive analytics.

The Solution: Barbara´s Industrial Edge Platform

Barbara provided Correa with a comprehensive Industrial Edge Platform that include: 

- Barbara OS: A cybersecure operating system for Edge devices, ensuring safe execution of applications.

- Barbara Panel: A remote orchestration platform for managing Edge devices and applications seamlessly.

- Real-Time Machine Data Processing: Enabled on-site data analysis and visualization, reducing dependency on the cloud.

- Enhanced Security: Fully compliant with IEC-62443 cybersecurity standards.

The Results

- Real-Time Monitoring: CORREA can now analyze machine data in real-time, improving operational efficiency.

- Full Data Sovereignty: Machines now store, analyze, and process data locally, ensuring complete ownership.

- Scalable AI Deployment: CORREA can now deploy AI models for advanced use cases like quality control and anomaly detection.

- Remote Machine Management: CORREA can now manage hundreds of Edge Devices from a single, centralized interface.

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Why Barbara?

Barbara’s Edge AI Orchestration Platform provides industrial companies with:

- Cybersecurity & Privacy: Data remains entirely under customer control.

- Rapid Deployment: Edge applications can be deployed in days, not months.

- Scalability & Flexibility: Supports AI model deployment across diverse hardware.

- User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies IT/OT integration and infrastructure management.

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Eager to know more? Download the full project here: 

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About Barbara

Barbara is the Edge AI Orchestration Platform for organisations seeking to overcome the challenges of deploying AI in highly distributed environments.

Barbara empowers OT managers with IT capabilities to digitize processes, enabling seamless data capture, processing, and real-time decision-making.

With Barbara, companies can deploy and monitor AI models in minutes by simply exporting and uploading them to the platform.

Digitization teams need efficient AI orchestration, while infrastructure teams require secure modernization without disrupting existing systems. Barbara enables both, orchestrating AI applications across distributed locations, modernizing infrastructure, and ensuring security, all without replacing existing components.

Our capabilities include:

.– Industrial Connectors for legacy or next-generation equipment.

.– Edge Orchestration to deploy and control docker-based applications across thousands of distributed locations.

.– Edge MLOps, to optimize, deploy, and monitor trained models using standard or GPU enabled hardware.

. – Remote Fleet Management for provisioning, configuration and updates of edge devices.

.– Marketplace of Certified Edge Apps ready to be deployed.

Contact us to discuss how we can help accelerate your Edge AI projects.

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