Company Profile
ÉireComposites is an innovative design, manufacturing and testing
company, involved in lightweight, high performance fibre-reinforced
composite materials, with an international customer base in aerospace,
wind energy, marine, Formula 1 racing and general automotive sectors.
Situation
A number of composite production processes needed to be monitored.
Solution
ÉireComposites tasked Measuresoft, a Microsoft
Certified Partner with the job of providing a monitoring solution for
the company.
Measuresoft proposed and installed the machine
monitoring solution based on its ScadaPro product running on the
Microsoft Windows XP platform. The ScadaPro system was configured to
acquire data from Datascan Solo data acquisition modules mounted in
panels beside each production unit. The Datascan units acquire Voltage,
Thermocouple and 4-20 mA transducer measurements from pressure sensors.
ScadaPro monitors critical process parameters.
A ScadaPro client located in the office allows for
remote monitoring and analysis outside of the production environment.
ÉireComposites now have a machine monitoring system
that:
Provides real-time information for operators to monitor during a
batch or shift.
Provides comprehensive data logging features to capture all
information for future analysis.
Provides real-time and historical trending, which allows an
operator zoom into an area of interest and export that data to a
standard Microsoft Excel report format.
Benefits
Comprehensive measurement collection
significantly increases the accuracy of readings: rather
than estimating, ScadaPro allows users to pinpoint precise
changes in layer densities.
ScadaPro’s real-time measurement
capability provides higher accuracy and reliability,
ensuring better process results and reduces process
uniformity defects.
Problems with machinery can be easily
spotted and recorded.
The system can easily be expanded to
monitor more machines.
Leveraging the Microsoft platform
provides a solution that is accessible throughout the
corporate network.
Operator familiarity with the Windows
user interface reduces training costs.
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