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Pipe ID 4.0: Monitoring plants in real time
Schuler introduces comprehensive process control system for the manufacturing of large pipes including product data acquisition
Schuler’s Pipe ID 4.0 is a comprehensive process control system for the manufacturing of large pipes in real time.
objectives: creating a stable and safe process flow which offers high quality large pipes, low costs of operation and a high degree of automation. This is also true for the company’s latest innovation, Pipe ID 4.0 – a comprehensive process control system for the manufacturing of large pipes in real time featuring a track and trace system, overall equipment efficiency (OEE) monitoring, condition monitoring, smart diagnostics and power monitoring. Schuler has already implemented machine monitoring in other production lines, e.g. for the manufacturing of railway wheels. The production data acquired includes all planned and unplanned downtimes including their causes, fault messages, target/ actual production and the quality of the parts. In this way, the
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or its spiral pipe plants, Schuler continuously develops optimizations aiming at similar
system operators gain a basis for calculating the OEE. Permanent logging of parameters also enables a cycle-accurate response in real time, where necessary; condition monitoring allows checking the system at regular intervals for damage and wear, and thanks to
smart diagnostics, fault analysis is accelerated significantly. With large pipes, product data acquisition is of particular importance when it comes to inspecting the high grade steel pipes (X100) in accordance with the API 5L standard regarding
dimension or welding quality by means of ultrasonics, hydrostatic testing and X-rays. Schuler upgraded the analog X-Ray system to a digital version, so it can be easily integrated into Pipe ID 4.0. It includes a server station that stores the results of these tests
It features track and trace, overall equipment efficiency (OEE), condition as well as power monitoring and smart diagnostics.
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