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Mitsubishi Electric and Factorium CMMS make IoT operation easy, instantly
The Industry 4.0 concept is driving ever greater innovation for the future — in particular the integration of production with internet connectivity in the form of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which connects manufacturing processes across the entire supply chain in the digital world more completely than before.
Applying IIoT in manufacturing makes it possible to check machine condition, production status and product quality in real time, and to send feedback to the central system easily — which continuously reduces production costs and the cost of controlling systems across the whole plant.
Mitsubishi Electric and IIoT solutions for every industry
Mitsubishi Electric develops solutions for manufacturers who want to build IIoT into a production control system — covering everything from first deployment through to large-scale industrial IIoT — around the principle that system control should be easy to use. They are the iQ Monozukuri Process Remote Monitoring solution and the e-F@ctory Starter package.
Control operations at IIoT level with iQ Monozukuri Process Remote Monitoring
iQ Monozukuri Process Remote Monitoring is an application package for industry that makes it easy to start using IIoT technology on the production line. It collects, presents and manages data gathered from the GOT2000 series HMI screen and connects to many types of equipment, allowing production processes to be improved, efficiency raised and output increased by analysing the data shown on GT SoftGOT2000 — operating status data, operation logs and alarms, for example.
■ Screen templates for checking data all at once (operating status table, operating status graph) ■ Screen templates for creating data set files (Extract Resource Data) ■ Screen templates for analysing equipment status (Xbar R Chart, Alarm Pareto Chart) ■ Process Remote Monitoring setting tool — a tool for configuring the HMI you want to collect data from, requiring no specialist knowledge
Start using IoT technology on the production line to raise the standard of the production process and increase output, through visibility of operating status. The iQ Monozukuri Process Remote Monitoring system installs easily onto existing equipment, letting ordinary devices gather data that was previously scattered, with ready-made screen templates for analysing equipment status.
Begin raising operations to an advanced level with the e-F@ctory starter package
The ready-made e-F@ctory starter package was developed to analyse equipment data on the production line and present the results on the GOT (HMI) screen, without the user having to design algorithms, analysis formats or complex graphs themselves. It cuts engineering time and saves the cost of building the system, efficiently.
■ Management dashboard — see the overall picture instantly, such as data checks and output volumes, or the operating status and faults of individual devices ■ Production counting — for example the total number of products, or the number of products that passed QC ■ Operating status monitor — displays machine operating status such as Operating / Stopped / Non-Operating as a time graph, and shows machine status in real time
The e-F@ctory starter package is a ready-made software set for industries that want to begin building an IIoT system. It develops capability across several aspects of production — inspection of production equipment, production status and product quality — and saves the cost of installing and supporting IoT on the production line through simple configuration.
Reinforce performance across the board with the CMMS maintenance system
Factorium CMMS, a maintenance management system and one of Mitsubishi Electric's e-F@ctory Alliance members, is designed to hold the database of all repair work across an organization, business or industry. It helps control production costs and raise the overall effectiveness of plant machinery, and it can manage maintenance work from PM/AM through repair jobs, calibration, spare part requisition, machine component management and more. Using Factorium CMMS together with Mitsubishi Electric's IIoT solutions therefore creates convenient, highly efficient operation and builds a well-rounded IIoT solution — particularly as a contribution to maintenance on the production floor.
■ Plan and build work schedules, with configurable alerts and automatic job dispatch ■ Supports repair requests and records the outcome of each request ■ On-site inspection, with results of scheduled maintenance recorded ■ Users can raise a spare part requisition, or search for the part they need ■ Verify that machine quality remains within standard condition ■ Track job progress and machine status in real time ■ Record and evaluate engineers' work through a mobile phone
Beginning to use IoT in an industrial plant, so that operations become more efficient, requires laying a foundation of highly capable systems and equipment that nonetheless remain easy to use. Mitsubishi Electric can supply complete solutions and packages for industries wanting to start with IoT, together with Factorium CMMS, which raises the capability of the maintenance management system, makes it easy to manage, and covers more of the work an industrial operation does. It fits well with the behaviour of Mitsubishi Electric equipment, which can control operations and check status in fine detail — making IoT operation in the Industry 4.0 era straightforward for every industry, instantly.
