C58: Remote Asset Monitoring by OEM
Installation
PlantConnect RAMS installed on 100+ machines of OEM located at various customer sites in India and abroad.
Customer
- A company manufacturing automated paper processing machines to make notebook and other stationary
Use Cases
- Machine health monitoring and early intervention to avoid machine breakdown
- Remote diagnostics and support
- Raise alerts if best practices of usage are not followed
Challenges
- Paper processing machines have many moving parts. Incorrect usage by operators caused frequent breakdowns
- Customer blamed machine quality
- OEM had no way of monitoring this and guiding the customers
Connectivity
- Supplying an edge getway with each machine increases cost the solution. We came up with a cost-effective solution of installing RTDAS edge getway software on a SD card in machine controller. RTDAS reads data from controller using Modbus TCP.
Key Outcomes
- Real time diagnostics data
- Condition monitoring - 30+ conditions defined for various impending faults like motor temperature rise, paper stuck, lubrication not completed etc. this allowed preventive action before the fault occurred
- Guidance to operators to take corrective action if a faults occurred, e.g. Book stuck at stitching head fault
- A control room setup for OEM support team
RTDAS on m/c controller
Condition based Monitoring
Remote Support
Profibus Connectivity
Industrial HMI
Interlock
Enterprise Integration
PlantConnect RAMS monitoring server at our factory allows us to acquire data and build intelligence which leads to prevention of many break downs, to diagnose machine conditions and to get core data for better machine maintenance and production analysis.
- Uday Patel, Managing Director, LineOMatic Graphic Industries
- Uday Patel, Managing Director, LineOMatic Graphic Industries