Industry 4.0

Our proposal for digitisation

Our proposal for digitisation

Digitalize a manufacturing plant means study processes, products and machinery in order to identify the necessary information sources.

Our Industry 4.0 solutions process data and provide quantitative responses in virtual control rooms available on PC, large screens, tablet and smartphone.

What is Vision Industry?

A production supervision, cost analysis and efficiency calculation system built on three main elements:

  • Smart Box that reads data from different sources
  • IoT platform AGSuite Platform that collects and processes data
  • User interfaces that show various aspects of the production plant in real-time

A cloud system that can be activated on production plants distributed in different geographical areas.

For System Integrator

  • An opensource suite that allows to develop custom Industry 4.0 solutions for customers
  • A technical support service for the implementation of industrial IoT architectures and protocols
  • A service to study and supply PLCs, switchboards and sensors required to digitalize departments and machinery

Our proposal

A company digitalization service. A process that, starting from the needs, defines the infrastructures necessary for the implementation of the final system. Our goal is to digitalize the entire production and provide analytical tools while minimizing changes to departments, machinery and processes.

Our customers, during the digitalization process, receive:

  • A study of the departments and production sites in order to identify the best compromise between price and performance
  • PLC and switchboards necessary to turn old generation machinery into connected machinery
  • Technical support to choose additional sensors and departments cabling
  • A complete documentation of all connected systems, including manuals, protocols, variables and anything else connected to the IoT platform, whether provided by GEMINO, by third parties or already present in the production plant
  • A SW interface to the company’s ERP and MES systems
  • A vision industry instance with full access to all data

Machinery retrofit and connections

Learn how we digitalize machinery and connect departments.

Reshape with IoT

A renewal dedicated to all business functions.

  • We connect machinery also of old generation
  • We make departments connected
  • We supply production-oriented control panels
  • We deliver management-oriented analysis tools

What does VISIon Industry do?

Offers a control panel developed for use in production plants and administration,which integrates functionality of:

  • Consumption monitoring
  • Production supervision
  • Process efficiency calculation
  • Quality control
  • Production costs analysis

Discover some of our use case

Provides several reports based on the various elements of the factory:

Machinery:

  • Consumption analysis
  • Usage in time and executed cycles
  • Volume of material treated
  • Trend of each monitored variable

Products:

  • Production history
  • Distribution on the different machinery
  • Unit consumption and production efficiency for each machinery
  • Quality reports, parameter trends and alarms

Orders:

  • Orders analysis with aggregation of processes
  • Calculation of the total use of resources, machinery and personnel for the execution

FAQ

Those necessary to provide answers to the questions asked.

  • I would like to know the machinery consumption over time -> it is necessary to collect only consumption data.
  • I would like to know the machinery consumption over time according to working conditions -> it is necessary to collect the consumption and status of each machinery.
  • I would like to know the efficiency of my plants -> it is necessary to collect the consumption, status and processing type of each machinery.
  • I would like to have a report of production quality -> it is necessary to collect the status, processing type and additional variables (temperature, execution time, speed, …).

Vision Industry collects data through the main industrial protocols in order to connect, with the minimal effort, each machinery that expose data.

PLCs and switchboards that can be used to connect old generation machinery.

How does Vision Industry work?

It collects different types of data that can be configured in order to obtain the required analyses and results:

  • Machinery status;
  • Consumption in terms of electricity, gas, water, … ;
  • Products and orders under execution that can also come from ERP and MES;
  • Measurements from additional sensors or made available by the machinery;
  • Employment of personnel in the execution of orders;
  • Other data that can be read through an IoT infrastructure and are necessary to achieve the purposes;

It processes the collected data in real time, both in edge and cloud:

  • Historicize data, creating correlations between each data and element of the factory (Data <-> Machinery <-> Processing <-> Product <-> Order);
  • Adapt the data collection process to the conditions to always have only the necessary information, without redundancy or storage of non-significant data;
  • Provides dashboards that represent the collected data already focused on needs;

It provides several real-time «views» designed to be used in the departments, on machinery and by administration and available on PC, large screen, tablet or smartphone:

  • Status, connection and working condition of each connected object;
  • Real-time data for each machinery and order under execution, including alarms and parameter controls;
  • Detailed analysis of each machinery with activity tracking;
  • Order and processing status;

FAQ

The ERP or MES availability makes it easiest the adoption of VISIon Industry, also it is possible to interact with VISIon Industry both from user interface and from any other system already present in the company, leaving unchanged the internal operations and organizational processes.

There are many ways of interacting with VISIon Industry and they are adapted to the operating environment. It is therefore possible to use VISIon Industry:

  • In fully automatic mode, with direct connection to ERP and MES
  • In totally manual mode, acting on each element directly from the user interface
  • In mixed mode, where some actions can be automated and others not, with ERP/MES interaction also based on interchange files

Other uses of VISIon Industry

Vision Industry, thanks to its cloud connotation, the ability to collect any type of data and the availability of code in opensource, can also be used for:

  • Remote connection of machinery done by manufacturers who will have a control panel for supervision and preventive maintenance
  • Cloud connection of SW products like MES
  • Extension of SW products like ERP requiring production reports and quality supervision

Now

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Whatever the starting point, we can take you into the future.

  • Control rooms
  • Interactive and collaborative systems
  • Real-time collaboration tools