I have given talks to factory managers about finding that one or two employees that know Arduino/Raspberry for these projects. Every factory has such persons. They would love to do it!
The reception on this is mostly neutral or negative from management. When you identify these guys, turns out they have great hardware or programming skills, but no integration or architecture concepts. The existing system (ERP, MES) owners also like to put a lot of red-tape around anything unconventional connecting to their systems.
Managers also are held accountable for the project, even if the costs are low. They prefer to spend a lot and have a consultancy to blame on failure, then their internal employee project they selected.
What consultants do is they help the company navigate within it's own bureaucracy and processes. Even to implement the Raspberry solution.
The reception on this is mostly neutral or negative from management. When you identify these guys, turns out they have great hardware or programming skills, but no integration or architecture concepts. The existing system (ERP, MES) owners also like to put a lot of red-tape around anything unconventional connecting to their systems.
Managers also are held accountable for the project, even if the costs are low. They prefer to spend a lot and have a consultancy to blame on failure, then their internal employee project they selected.
What consultants do is they help the company navigate within it's own bureaucracy and processes. Even to implement the Raspberry solution.