Med Tech Manufacturer Sees OEE Improvements with New SCADA Solution
PAR Systems Partnered to Create a Cohesive Visualization Solution That Produces Tangible Wearable Device Production Improvements
Project at a Glance
- Data Ingestion
- 2000 fields for each final assembly (26 unique physical components)
- 220 station cycle-time fields
- 370 fail code fields for dispositioning parts
- 150 reject code fields for rejecting input components
- 900 process data fields
- 2000 unique downtime reasons
- → 4 million tags / hour with machine running at production rate
- Visualization
- 6 line-level views
- 75 machine-level views
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- 7 dedicated plant floor Perspective clients
- 10+ remote Perspective clients
- Scalable Schema Pattern
- Part tables ranging from 90 PLC fields to 671 PLC fields all reporting to the same chart components
Introduction
A leading med-tech manufacturer needed a SCADA system for a high-volume wearable device production line. Prior automation lines relied on custom data logging tools that generated .csv files and required manual collection and post-processing.
The current data logging process was:
- Time consuming to obtain meaningful statistics about line operations
- Limited in terms of available station-level information, which could help steer line improvements and increase OEE
- Incapable of modifying data in the existing polling architecture, which limited OEE calculations or data analysis flexibility
- Difficult to scale and modify
The manufacturer needed to:
- Replace manual logging and analysis operations with a comprehensive data collection and visualization solution
- Provide comparable charting capabilities in one central location
- Gain actionable data quickly, so teams could identify performance opportunities and improve OEE in their high production environment
Solution
By leveraging a few unique approaches, PAR developed a new SCADA solution that:
- Eliminates disparate data concerns
- Improves flexibility of data calculations and analysis
- Removes complicated calculations from PLC
- Substantially decreases manual data collection and post-processing
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