Engineering Information Systems to Allow the Integration of Process Monitoring with Asset Management

摘要

A system has been developed whereby process datadownloaded from PLC's is entered into an information chainwhich incorporates an analysis module which provides tailoredreports to a wide readership. The various positions associatedwith running the factory were analyzed for the types ofdecisions associated with the job responsibility plus theinformation necessary to support the decision making. A casestudy is presented for analyzing aspects of the manufacture ofthree piece steel aerosol cans. A hardware and software solutionwas designed, linking a machine cell through the PLC to aoperator/process interface.