Mitsubishi Electric has addressed the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) need for business to harvest production data from shop floor to cloud computing with its Edge Computing solution. The solutions are built on local control platforms to provide filtering and pre-processing of production data from intelligent devices, and at the same time facilitate communications to […]
A grain drying and storage facility that supplies some of Scotland’s leading distilleries has installed a new Movicon SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system to consolidate series of plant upgrades and expansions. Highland Grains Ltd is an agricultural cooperative, owned by its 89 members, which dries, conditions and stores malting barley and other […]
The CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) and PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) have delivered on their announcement to allow easy interoperability between CC-Link IE and PROFINET. The new specification builds on an initial announcement from 2015, when both network organisations promised to maximise the transparency between the two protocols. Transparency of integration Promoting transparency and […]
A Smart Condition Monitoring system installed on a paper coating machine has enabled the Mitsubishi HiTec Paper plant in Bielefeld, Germany to switch from time-based to condition-based maintenance, helping to avoid machine breakdowns. Enabling the new system is a Mitsubishi Electric L-series PLC that operates as a bidirectional gateway between the controller and sensors. […]
Smart condition monitoring helps users expect the unexpected Sudden machine and equipment failures can often be avoided if users have access to reliable predictive control monitoring systems. Clearly, planned maintenance has a role to play, but a smart condition monitoring (SCM) is one that identifies changes in the operating parameters before catastrophic […]