ATS Quality Management Solution Helps Compressor Blade Ceramic Core Manufacturer Optimise Production

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