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to the machine’s control system. Conair has launched the SmartServices Industry
4.0 platform that combines powerful equipment monitoring and visualisation functions with advanced cloud-based data storage and analytics. The company says that the platform promises new levels of process, performance and quality optimi- sation, predictive diagnostics and maintenance, and maximum equipment uptime. The SmartSer- vices offering is claimed to be straightforward, starting with compact wireless machine adapters (WMAs) that are installed in the controls of each piece of auxiliary equipment, and a connection to the web-based SmartServices platform. Upon login, users identify and configure their auxiliaries into the system, organising them by equipment type, plant names, production lines, physical locations – whatever customised format fits their operation. Once enabled, WMAs automatically collect data from each piece of auxiliary equipment and transmit it into the secure, cloud-based SmartSer- vices database where it is processed and stored for presentation to the user. The Conair SmartServices web portal streams user data into a dashboard format, providing a
clickable list of the user-specified equipment groups on one side and a large working screen on the other. Within the dashboard, users can rapidly navigate to a selected equipment group and then drill down to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each piece of equipment. The KPI display shows real-time data. By default, three KPIs are selected and highlighted at the top of the display, while other KPIs are shown below in the form of real-time line graphs. Each KPI is marked with a colour indicator – red, yellow, or green – that makes it easy to scan current operating conditions and spot performance trends. Both the highlighted KPIs and the time intervals shown on the line graphs are user-selectable and can be modified at any time. The Machine View display is a
schematic of the equipment popu- lated with readouts of set-point and actual readings. A view of a dryer, for instance, identifies hopper inlet air temperature, tempera- ture gradients within the material hopper (with Drying Monitor), outlet air temperature, dew-
Below: The Wittmann Gravimax control: clearly laid out 32 bit processor control with touch-screen and USB interface
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