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Cutting-Edge Asset Management Solutions for Maximized Efficiency
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Automotive
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Energy Management System
- Remote Control
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The Italian manufacturer of transmissions, engines, drivelines, and fasteners sought to develop a company-wide optimization program aimed at enhancing the asset management and energy consumption of their existing machinery and infrastructure. The goal was to improve the condition monitoring process and manage overall equipment effectiveness. The company required an open technology solution for data acquisition and monitoring that could support a range of different equipment and machines without replacing any existing hardware. The system also needed to be user-friendly for operators, with an easy-to-use and intuitive dashboard that could be viewed on a range of devices including smartphones and tablets.
About The Customer
The customer is an Italian manufacturer of transmissions, engines, drivelines, and fasteners. They operate in a highly competitive global marketplace, where major auto parts manufacturers require that their production lines exploit every available technological innovation to ensure that they maximize their value and efficiency. Their auto production lines are highly complex; they rely on the seamless coordination of a complex chain of robotic arms, sensors, and other instruments. The customer sought to develop a company-wide optimization program aimed at enhancing the asset management and energy consumption of their existing machinery and infrastructure.
The Solution
Advantech’s WebAccess/SCADA, combined with the Infor EAM platform, provided the foundation for the overall solution. WebAccess/SCADA is a browser-based software package used for supervisory control and data acquisition. The software facilitates intelligent analytics via the user-friendly HTML5-based dashboard. Users can quickly and easily create customized information pages by using widgets that show analysis charts and diagrams. WebAccess/SCADA technology made the integration of the entire system possible, allowing for the acquisition and monitoring of energy consumption and production data from each piece of equipment, including data for the aforementioned physical parameters in addition to data on the compressor room, electricity consumption, cooling system, pumps, and so on.
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