Mechanical engineering/industrial maintenance and line control
Io-link case with plc and hmi
We have defined a case containing the main communicating components of a small production line to learn about IO-Link technology and its operation.
The Factory of the Future or Industry 4.0 integrates technological bricks such as collaborative robotics, augmented reality and digital twins, artificial intelligence and other SaaS (software as a service)... Many of these bricks exploit data from Big Data.
In relation to connected production systems, digital technologies generally involve an exchange of data between these systems and an external processing intelligence.
systems and an external processing intelligence.
On a production line, these exchanges are mainly used for production monitoring and control as well as for maintenance. The data is collected by communicating sensors and sent to the PLC for the management of the manufacturing process and to configuration and monitoring software for the monitoring of the functional status and for the supervision of the production line.
The maintenance of the systems is strongly modified because from the curative or preventive maintenance, we pass here to a predictive maintenance where the analysis of the data indicates the optimal moment to replace a failing part.
We are entering the era of "just-in-time" maintenance...