- Visibility
- Real-time information made available across the enterprise
- Plant-floor data transformed in real-time into executive level information
- Cost Reduction
- Ability to predict breakdowns through historical maintenance data
- Reduction in manual data collection methods
- Virtually paperless information system
- Flexibility
- Data can be collected from practically any type of equipment
- Additional data points can be easily added without any modifications to the software
- Easy to use web interface
- Easy to maintain because there are no extra client tools to install
- Remote access to information for multiple users
- STEP 1: Discovery and Data Gathering
- STEP 2: Functional Specification
- STEP 3: Implementation
- Detailed Design
- Pilot Development
- Workshop and Customer Feedback
- Customer Approval of Pilot
- Mass Development
- Testing
- Installation and Validation
- Documentation
- Training
- STEP 4: Ongoing Support and Training
The availability of data is a key to optimizing any manufacturing process. Knowing this, a global steel manufacturer sought to introduce a system for monitoring and analyzing heat data from the beginning of scrap loading up to the final casting process. In addition to the basic data analysis requirements of the customer, it was necessary that the solution be scalable in order to incorporate future expansions of the facility and data collection system.
To accommodate the needs of the customer, Can-Technologies proposed an out of the box system based on Activplant software. As an enterprise solution, Activplant provided the necessary flexibility and expandibility required by the customer. Being web-based, it also meant that important process data could be made readily available to those responsible for process improvement and analysis.
Can-Technologies seamlessly integrated the Activplant system into the existing network and developed reporting applications for retrieval of various key performance indicators (KPIs) including yield, downtime, energy usage and profitability metrics. The final system effectively centralized production data and significantly improved plant floor visibility.
A world-class producer of iron products was periodically experiencing downtime in their facility due to the lack of alarm and fault information being readily available from their cooling-water pump house. The normally unmanned pump house contained the equipment responsible for supplying the cooling water to the main plant, and in the event that a piece of pumphouse equipment failed, often the only notice of the failure would come in the form of shutting down the line of production due to low water pressure.
Because the pump house is normally without an operator, the customer needed a solution that would provide them remote insight into the pump house with information feeding back in real-time.
Can-Technologies presented a solution using an industry standard Web framework that would provide both real-time feedback, as well as remote system control from any PC with the proper security privileges in the plant.
The solution contained rich graphical displays of the equipment, laid out in a fashion similar to schematic drawings. This layout allowed the maintenance personnel to quickly become proficient with and take advantage of the benefits of the system.
