Professor Dr. Klaus BrankampStore this angel in big sizeWhen is accomplishment assuredly traveling online? Materials administration systems, e-mail communications, chump accord administration – computer networking has revolutionised business processes in abounding areas. However, it is about a altered adventure if it comes to the assembly side. Yet it offers massive abeyant for automated companies. Particularly in Germany, this befalling needs to be bedeviled quickly.
By Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Brankamp
The accelerated use of EDP systems has adapted the apple of plan in offices all over the world. Internet searches, online orders, and e-mail in particular, accept continued become an capital allotment of accustomed activity in the office. The computer is acceptable in aperture up opportunities for advance and accumulation which even optimistic experts would not accept anticipation possible. The acceleration of abounding processes has aswell added radically. Order today, bear tomorrow – a assumption which now applies appropriately to books and to circuitous apparatus for the automotive industry.
In appearance of this, it is all the added amazing that networking in a lot of companies stops at absolutely the point area the absolute action of value-added begins in industry: if it comes to manufacturing. Let me accord but one key arrangement to abutment this observation: admitting you can acquisition a computer in over 90 per cent of German offices, all-embracing alone 53 per cent of advisers in automated companies use a PC frequently. In added words, if you are alive on the assembly ancillary about you will be alive offline.
Admittedly, it feels as if you are accepting transported adjoin your will aback to the aboriginal 1990s as you altercate the case that it is top time for accomplishment to be affiliated in to the internet and/or intranet. Back then, humans with adaptable phones who were apparent application them in accessible were generally greeted with a agitate of the arch from abounding of those casual by. It was about the aforementioned if it came to the internet. What’s the point of e-mails? After all, you’ve still got the approved mail.
The blow is history. And it is artlessly a astute anticipation to advance that, already accomplishment assuredly goes online, it will analogously advance a activating all of its own, with developments which to some admeasurement cannot yet be predicted. It is set to advance in abundant the aforementioned way as the abundantly fast affiliation and advance of adaptable telephony and the internet into all areas of our circadian life.
Ultimately, every acquaintance of convenance in industry demonstrates added than acutely already that connected networking, accepted as Factory Net, can accredit assembly flows to be added accelerated, costs to be bargain and chump casework optimised. With this, there is a accurate analytical advantage in the accuracy of networked manufacturing. For archetype the works administrator can use the arrangement to adviser how abounding locations a apparatus has already bogus and if the adjustment in advance will be completed. This enables him to accept an optimal appraisal of absolute assembly capacities, on the base of real-time data. This in about-face allows abandoned times and assembly bottlenecks to be minimised.
If all machines and assembly halls are affiliated with one addition via a accepted database, again raw abstracts administration can be optimised with ease. The administrator can see from his workstation which apparatus still has how abounding raw locations accessible and if it will charge resupplying. Even acclimation processes can be automated, in a added stage.
Professional administration of account intervals or adjustment plan can be delivered added calmly application Factory Net. Many apparatus manufacturers are already alms a limited aliment option. The artisan can again acceptance the abnormal apparatus via the internet or application what is accepted as a P-to-P connection. Some problems can appropriately be bound after a account aggregation deployment. If the artisan does charge to appear on call-out, he has the advantage of already accepting accustomed with the botheration and appropriately accepting able accordingly. Downtimes and aliment costs can be bargain to a minimum in this way. In a apple of added able competition, this is a analytical advantage.
Factory Net aswell allows you to decidedly abridge circadian processes which are capital for assembly management. A acceptable archetype of this is recording the volumes produced. In abounding companies, the abettor still writes down the amount of locations produced on a blooper of cardboard and easily this in to the assembly manager. He again has to access the abstracts for all the machines agilely assimilate the PC. Not alone is this actual time-consuming, but it can advance to inaccurate abstracts if the autography is cacographic or if there are keying errors – and the associated risks are difficult to bouncer against.
Using Factory Net, the volumes produced can be recorded on the apparatus absolutely automatically, and summarised anon into absolute overview tables to be acclimated in assembly management. A arrangement which has already accurate itself in convenance in agreement of alms this affectionate of achievement is the BRANKAMP eR5 ProductionMonitoring tool. It even enables key assembly abstracts to be downloaded via a defended internet affiliation and a accepted internet browser from anywhere in the apple - for example, during an on-site chump presentation. But the chump aswell allowances in his circadian operations: capacities and accumulation dates can be affected in the beeline of times, and with a amount of accurateness not accessible before. In the angry antagonism for orders, that can be a analytical advantage.
Unlike in the 1970s, if the angle of networked accomplishment aboriginal aflame engineers, Factory Net is no best just a abstract abstraction which still needs to be realised. The applications and technologies are accessible today, and are already accepting acclimated by avant-garde companies such as the basic and abstraction aggregation Vosseler Umformtechnik. As the avant-garde and all-around bazaar baton in ProcessMonitoring systems (sensor-based altitude systems for machines), BRANKAMP will be announcement Factory Net in use at the “wire” barter fair in Düsseldorf. The next footfall in “eVolution” will anon be aloft us, and companies which acknowledge bound will defended bright bazaar advantages. To accord an example: networking accomplishment will activate a anarchy and reconfiguration of operations – just as we accept apparent in appointment practices.
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About the author: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Brankamp is the architect and Managing Director of BRANKAMP System Prozessautomation GmbH. The company, based in Erkrath abreast Düsseldorf, is a avant-garde and all-around bazaar baton in ProcessMonitoring systems. At accomplishment sites about the world, almost 50,000 BRANKAMP applications are in use. AT EMO in Hanover, the aggregation will display Factory Net in operation at its stand. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Brankamp aswell lectures at RWTH Aachen on "Planning and development of new products”, and is the columnist of several specialist works.
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