IIoT in Action: Improving Equipment Effectiveness in the Plastics Industry
In this piece ? we’ll explore how IIoT drives productivity in the plastics We will industry and provide an example of implementing an IIoT solution for monitoring equipment effectiveness at a plastic parts manufacturing enterprise.
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The lack of skilled labor ? and the complexity of the global supply dataset chain — these and other issues contribute to a decrease in the plastics segment’s efficiency. It has been reported that over the past year the industry’s productivity has declined by 3.3 percent. To change the situation for the better ? a number of plastics manufacturers have turned to modern tech and have started adopting the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for monitoring and analyzing shop floor performance.
As the experience of early adopters can be helpful for the bar chart of average manufacturers who are at the start of their IIoT journeys ? in this article ? we will share an example from our IoT consulting practice and show how a U.S.-based plastics manufacturer leveraged IIoT to tackle the issue of insufficient equipment effectiveness. they’ve achieved and the struggles they’ve encountered on the way to a connected shop floor.
The IIoT-Driven Approach to
Monitoring Equipment Performance
With IIoT in place ? manufacturers get the opportunity to view equipment any germany cell number of effectiveness metrics (e.g. ? runtime ? downtime ? cycle time ? the number of parts produced) in real-time without physical access to machines. For that ? the data about equipment’s operational parameters (e.g. ? a machine reset signal ? pen drop ? pen lift) is fetched automatically from machines’ PLCs via serial or Ethernet interfaces.