Millions of people on the African continent still lack access to electricity and after a decade of fragile improvement, access to electricity on the continent had fallen by 4% between 2019 and 2021. Energy drives economies, sustains societies and is essential to reduce poverty. Access to electricity enables investments, innovations and new industries that are the engines of employment, inclusive growth and shared prosperity. Quality transformers are an essential ingredient in achieving SDG-7 targets.
BTT implements its boldness with the vision of a smart factory with systems that self-optimise performance across the production flow, self-adapt to and learn from new conditions in real or near-real time, and autonomously run certain parts of production processes, under an Internet of Things (IoT) solution. BTT has world class transformer design software, which allows for optimization of designs according to the parameters required, the materials available and their cost bases, and finally the specific manufacturing capability they employ. The software produces highly optimised result, saving an average of 10% of the bills of material and producing a transformer with lower losses, which benefits the grid. The cost saving and technology advances are subsequently passed on the end-users, strengthening BTT’s manufacturing competitiveness.
BTT’s bold vision includes the final implementation of the factory quality management system, operating on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). This system tracks both materials, manufactured products, assembled transformers and people in the facility and orchestrates the manufacturing process. The system includes customised software that leverages RFID tags and readers to automate much of its data capture. The system guides operators and ensures that all required steps and quality verifications are performed with comprehensive traceability at key points along the way.
