backendcode
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Hello Everyone, I would like to talk about Internet of things in Manufacturing industry and would love to know your opinion because I have plan to start my company to implement IoT which will help production lines or integrator to installed a system that can collect production data and useful information for decision makers.
First of all, I have been in manufacturing industry since 2012 and I am pretty sure there are people on this forum who might have experience more than my age and I would love to hear from them as well
I worked as a CNC programmer and then eventually moved into control engineering where I am getting an opportunity to program PLC and Robots which is great but after working for a while in manufacturing industry, one thing I noticed is "LACK OF INFORMATION FROM THE FLOOR" such a downtime, cycle time, run time, production data, most importantly the reasons behind downtime etc etc
Currently, I work with seniors engineers/programmer and with due respect, they hate that data or floor information and their goal is to build a line, finish programming and keep the line running and if stops, automation technician or maintenance will look into that and fix it. They don't want to write a code to collect the data to see the efficiency of line they just build.
And I believe, displaying production (How many parts made) on HMI is not enough.
On the other hand, Management in most of the industries are business people and they just know the "NUMBERS" and that's all. They are not very technically sound and doesn't have much information about what kind of data we can get from Automation line for future improvement (Not talking about engineering or maintenance managers)
Honestly, I love data and information collection from production lines and i believe building a production lines and make them running is only 50% and rest is to improve the line and reduce the downtime, and I think we can have accurate data by collecting that data from automation line, stored on server and give access to decision makers who can look into that data and do something
for example, Machine 1 on production line has same downtime as Machine 2 but Machine 1 made double parts than Machine 2. WHYY? Is Machine 2 cycle is longer than Machine 1 or Robot priority to feed a parts to both machines are not good enough or effective that's why both Machine can't be use in most effective way.
My Question is what do you guys think of collecting data from production lines and stored them on the server and use Big Data tools to make an effective reports from them and benefits company.
I personally believe, there is so much need of this data collection on big level, not just having a production numbers with hand written downtime which was guessed by Operators just to give supervisor because he requested after every shift.
Thank you so much for reading long post and what do you guys think about it?
I am looking forward to hearing from you and I am sorry if I hurt someone with my post.
Thank you,
Backendcode
First of all, I have been in manufacturing industry since 2012 and I am pretty sure there are people on this forum who might have experience more than my age and I would love to hear from them as well
I worked as a CNC programmer and then eventually moved into control engineering where I am getting an opportunity to program PLC and Robots which is great but after working for a while in manufacturing industry, one thing I noticed is "LACK OF INFORMATION FROM THE FLOOR" such a downtime, cycle time, run time, production data, most importantly the reasons behind downtime etc etc
Currently, I work with seniors engineers/programmer and with due respect, they hate that data or floor information and their goal is to build a line, finish programming and keep the line running and if stops, automation technician or maintenance will look into that and fix it. They don't want to write a code to collect the data to see the efficiency of line they just build.
And I believe, displaying production (How many parts made) on HMI is not enough.
On the other hand, Management in most of the industries are business people and they just know the "NUMBERS" and that's all. They are not very technically sound and doesn't have much information about what kind of data we can get from Automation line for future improvement (Not talking about engineering or maintenance managers)
Honestly, I love data and information collection from production lines and i believe building a production lines and make them running is only 50% and rest is to improve the line and reduce the downtime, and I think we can have accurate data by collecting that data from automation line, stored on server and give access to decision makers who can look into that data and do something
for example, Machine 1 on production line has same downtime as Machine 2 but Machine 1 made double parts than Machine 2. WHYY? Is Machine 2 cycle is longer than Machine 1 or Robot priority to feed a parts to both machines are not good enough or effective that's why both Machine can't be use in most effective way.
My Question is what do you guys think of collecting data from production lines and stored them on the server and use Big Data tools to make an effective reports from them and benefits company.
I personally believe, there is so much need of this data collection on big level, not just having a production numbers with hand written downtime which was guessed by Operators just to give supervisor because he requested after every shift.
Thank you so much for reading long post and what do you guys think about it?
I am looking forward to hearing from you and I am sorry if I hurt someone with my post.
Thank you,
Backendcode