Information and communication technology company Fujitsu has developed a new IoT solution called the FUJITSU Manufacturing Industry Solution VisuaLine. According to Fujitsu, manufacturing facilities in Japan consistently review their their production line processes and designs; however, because action is only taken to fix issues like malfunctioning equipment when it stops working, production efficiency and lead times are still affected. VisuaLine, on the other hand, collects log data from every piece of manufacturing equipment used in a particular production process and visualizes the operational status for each product in a variety of formats such as graphs. By comparing these graphs from day to day, users can quickly see if portions of the production process are taking longer than usual, alerting them to potential equipment problems long before the equipment actually stops working or sets off alarms. Read more at 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/157781/fujitsu-internet-of-things/