| Downtime Collection and Reporting
System for Juice Line.
SUMMARY:
Developed HMI and Visual Basic front end to create real-time
networked display of Juice Line status as well as automatically
collect actual downtime reasons with time stamp.
DESCRIPTION:
Each of the 22 PLCs on the line required additional code to determine
actual downtime. Care was taken to avoid collection of
erroneous faults. The human machine interface (HMI) provided
management with a real-time visual view of the Juice Line machinery
status, faults, efficiencies and production. Additionally,
Visual Basic and MSSql was used to collect downtime, efficiencies
and production. An automatic downtime and production report
is created daily. The report is saved on the main server
for management to view. Several of the office computers
are set up as clients to view the real-time graphics, status
and alarms. The custom Visual Basic query form also resides
on each client. This enables management to select, sort,
view and print downtime information in a customized report format.
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