Industry Background
With the increasingly fierce competition in the global industry, the traditional production mode can no longer meet the requirements of modern enterprises for efficiency and accuracy. Coupled with the gradual movement of products to the national and even overseas markets, remote monitoring and management system has become an irreversible trend in the manufacturing industry. In this context, such as slitting machine such as intelligent equipment, urgently need to be upgraded through intelligent to cope with the ever-changing needs of the changes.
Industry Pain Points
However, in reality, many pain points hold the industry’s pace. Firstly, the high cost of manual operation and maintenance, not only consumes a lot of human resources and prone to error; secondly, equipment failure caused by production line stagnation often brings incalculable losses to the enterprise; and finally, the phenomenon of data silos is common, and there is a lack of effective visual data analysis tools to guide decision-making optimisation.
The Solution
In the face of these challenges, IOTROUTER introduced a distributed monitoring and operation system solution to achieve remote monitoring and control of PLC data collection for automatic slitting machines. The system uses industrial intelligent gateways to collect data from PLCs and upload it to the enterprise monitoring and management platform via wireless network to achieve remote monitoring, abnormality alarms, remote maintenance and other functions, which reduces labour costs and improves predictive maintenance capabilities, thus reducing the risk of production downtime due to equipment failure. In addition, it can open up the data barriers of different platforms, provide comprehensive and in-depth intelligence support for enterprises, and achieve data visualisation and intelligent analysis.
Funzioni del sistema
1. Real-time Data Collection: The gateway can collect all kinds of data from the slitter in real time, including operation status, speed, temperature, pressure, current, voltage, etc., and send these data to the central monitoring platform.
2. Remote Monitoring: Through mobile phone and computer, the operator can monitor the working status of the slitting machine from the remote end, and adjust and control the production process to improve the production efficiency and product quality.
3. Fault Alarm: It can automatically detect the abnormal state of the slitting machine and issue alarms in time, and notify through WeChat, SMS, email, etc. Meanwhile, it provides troubleshooting information, which can help the maintenance personnel to quickly locate the problem and take corresponding measures.
4. Data Storage And Analysis: The system can store the collected data in the database and provide data analysis function to help managers understand the production trend, optimise the production process and improve production efficiency.
5. Production Management: The gateway can connect the data to MES system and ERP system, which can manage the production plan, production progress, production quality, etc., improve the production management level and reduce the production cost.
6. Remote Maintenance: It can realise remote programming and debugging of PLCs in different places and remote downloading of programs, which can improve maintenance efficiency and reduce travelling and expenses.