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Overview
LYNQ’s factory automation provides controlled management of machine data including error handling; live or controlled data posting to ERP/PLM systems; data collection from multiple geographical facilities; data historian.
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With over 140 industrial drivers to the most common PLC/IO devices including Allen Bradley, GE, Honeywell, Mitsubishi, Siemens and more. LYNQ provides the platform to support factory digitalisation by connecting machines to read data automatically into LYNQ. Manual and hybrid data capture methods are also supported using the workbench and timesheet features.
Automated data collection allows manufacturers to:
- Improve visibility across manufacturing operations
- Improve effectiveness
- Reduce cost of production
- Reduce time to market
- Increase factory performance
- Gain competitive advantage
LYNQ’s factory automation solution provides controlled management of machine data including error handling; live or controlled data posting to ERP/PLM systems; data collection from multiple geographical facilities; data historian and supports these features and capabilities:
- Active job or multiple jobs
- Good parts count including serial numbers, weight etc
- Scrap parts count including scrap reasons codes etc
- Machine status including downtime, breakdown etc
- Job completion status
- Real-time OEE/OLE/TEEP visibility
- Alerting and production issues assignment
- Real-time ERP WIP integration
- Intelligent error handing
- Generation of time-series data for conditional monitoring
It is important to note that this feature guide does not cover the setup and maintenance requirements for the PLC or IO device and/or the OPC server. Configuration of these hardware and software devices will be completed by a recommended industrial engineer.
Within this feature guide, you will learn:
- System requirements to support factory automation
- How to enable factory automation
- How to create automated devices
- How to configure signals and processors
- How to configure automation examples
- How to use the factory automation simulator
- How to monitor a live automated environment
- How to resolve dataflow errors
- How to setup alerts for monitoring automation errors
- How to troubleshoot failures
Click on the link below to download the LYNQ Factory Automation Guide
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