TECHNOLOGY | DIGITAL MOULDING
Above: One of Husky’s Advantage+ Elite Monitor- ing Centres
direction,” says a representative. Yizumi has estab- lished the Intelligent Interconnection Department, responsible for related product development and service support, especially to help small and medium customers to improve their digital production. YiMES is the company’s intelligent Manufactur-
ing Execution System, based on the Yi+ platform (Yizumi Intelligent Equipment Industry Internet Platform) and designed especially for SMEs. “It can help to remove data silos, place the entire produc- tion process under control, and provide customers with digital factory solutions,” says the company. A new feature in this tool introduced at Chinap- las this year is the YiMES Intelligent Integration Process Control Function. With this feature, production data will be uploaded and saved in the cloud or on a server. The data can be synchronized automatically with other smart equipment and peripherals and achieve process monitoring as well as early warning. Husky Injection Molding Systems says it has
taken a different approach to how it delivers impactful data to its customers. The company claims to have one of the industry’s most advanced plant monitoring systems in Shotscope 4.0. This provides users with real-time information “delivered in a way to make quick decisions.” Integration into Shotscope
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4.0 of ancillaries carrying out such tasks as material handling, dehumidification, and part inspection provides the producer with a single source of data, providing a foundation for smart monitoring. Shotscope 4.0 does not have a restriction on the equipment it can connect to or what type of equipment can be connected to it. “We have developed our own data collector to help integrate Husky and non-Husky equipment, that delivers industry best-in-class integration,” says Phil Kinson, Global Director, Service Contracts. He says Husky has used this capability to also enable integration of recyclers’ PET washing lines and pelletizers in order to monitor and control the process of turning used bottles back into rPET pellets. Husky’s Advantage+ Elite combines the power
of remotely connected equipment with data algorithms designed to monitor leading system variables, which if left undetected will result in a loss of equipment performance. “To provide a high level of equipment transparency our Husky Monitoring Centre applies our Advantage+ Elite ‘We Call You’ service to contact the customer and work to bring those leading system variables back into specification, preferably before they experi- ence a loss of equipment performance,” says Kinson. “Our real time monitoring capability continues to verify the solution.” He says Husky has established proprietary analytic models that provide insights enabling it to predict system performance deterioration and identify system performance problems. “Market demands for sustainability, consumer choice driving SKU [Stock Keeping Unit] prolifera- tion, multilayer packaging requirements are making it harder than ever for producers to operate at world class levels of OEE [Overall Equipment Effectiveness],” says Kinson. “Our customers are also telling us that it is getting harder to train and retain internal resources.” He says: “Husky is experiencing significant
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