Purpose
- Automatic Data Collection from machines to remove the manual & paper-based system from the shop floor
- Central, Monitoring & Control of all shop floor machines using one platform
- Perform different analyses for Yield, Reject, OEE, Downtime & Fault occurrences using historian data and improve the overall productivity
Project Scope
- Connection different machines such as hydration, wet, dry and packaging machine around 33 machines to central Ignition server
- The development of logic & different graphic screens for monitoring of real time status, Yield, Rejects, OEE & downtime analyses
Solution Approach
- Data collected from Schneider Electric PLCs connected via Ethernet
- Win CoDeSys OPC, OPC server was used by Ignition to communicate with PLCs
- Mission critical architecture of Ignition was used to achieve the overall functionality
Systems & Tools
- Ignition SCADA Ver. 8
- WinCC CodecSys OPC
- Codec PLC Software
- MySql
The Results
- Paper-less data capturing
- Improvement in the yield and decrease of rejects by finding bottleneck issues using historical data
- Enhancement in overall machines availability & productivity
