Condition Monitoring; Wireless PROFINET; perform the CM retrofit
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Machine tools play a central role in the production of Fig.1: Productionlineparts for the automotive industry, with hundreds of machines of different age and manufacturers often being installed in one production hall. In addition to modern machines with already integrated sensor technology, there are also classic machines whose operating status is still monitored by electromechanical modules. In the course of Industrie 4.0, operators are now increasingly looking to retrofit those machines with intelligent sensor systems including data communication, thus creating the prerequisites for efficient condition monitoring.
A well-known plant engineering company develops and manufactures reliable and high-quality bottling plants since more than 50 years. The design is specifically aimed at long-time durability. In this context, remote maintenance of the world-wide installed machines via the internet got growing importance. Therefore, during development of a new bottling machine generation with a capacity of 21.000 bottles per hour, a new and Ethernet-based communication technology was required ...
Process Automation systems based on Remote I/O (RIO) technology are installed since years in many paint shops and factories of the automotive industry together with PROFINET as plant-wide communication technology...
Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are extensive, highly automated and mobile "factories", which are able to perform all stages of a tunnel construction in one single run. A particular operational challenge is the transmission of relevant sensor data from the rotating cutter wheel on the machine head to the controller located further back...
The Food and Beverage industry is among the first to utilize the value provided by the next level of automation performance with PROFINET and PROFIBUS PA...