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Process Instruments
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Valve Island with integrated safety and Ethernet/IP connectivity
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IO-Link Actor Sensor Systems
These days Instruments, Valve Islands and IO Systems are availeble Digital on a Fieldbus i.e. Advanced Process Manager (APM) or ProfiNet or EtherNet IP.
Practical result is that there will be only Industrial Automation (IA) Network configuration and commissioning and Testing to the PLC and HMI in the onsite project, where all the upcoming issues have to be fixed and worked out unexpected and the duration for Startup might be much longer than expected and required with the result that the project is delayed and also Production is delayed and your own Customers might receive the products much later dan expected which can also cause secondary Logistic problems
This all can be prevented by shipping the Industrial Automation Devices in Groups to our Electrification-Consultancy Facility in Edam where the IA systems can be unloaded from the car into our Workshop where IA devices can be mounted on a wall frame and connected to a POE Network switch and powered up to bring the AI system alive.
Intermediate external storage can be used if huge AI Device amounts are ordered.
Now the Client Project controller or a Test PLC can be shipped by car and connected to the Intelligent IA Network and a complete test can be performed and documented as a full FAT. On the First Floor in our Facility in Edam we can install the Client HMI PC, here we can also provide the lunch.
Now people can go back home by car or bus (the busstation is nearby on 5 min. walking distance) or do overtime and start fresh next day to proceed with the FAT or work out a fix if there is a Network or configuration Issue.
But if you come from far or don’t want to drive home, Edam has plenty of hotels and restaurants, they are nearby to EC, some of them are on walking distance. Hence the brand new Van der Valk Hotel/Restaurant Volendam busstop is by bus only 15 minutes away. There is also plenty of sight seeing in the touristic Edam-Volendam municipality or you can Rent a Roompot Holiday house as a Team.
Off course you can also choose to leave the Pre-Testing and PLC/HMI testing fully up to us. We can also Apply Compressed Air to a Control Valve or a Valve Island.
Once the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) is DONE the IA system can be shipped out and the Next IA system/group can be tested, it wont cost you more time, you only do this planning wise in parallel instead of after and you don’t have to await completion of your floor and building to be wind and water tight.
When the AI Systems are installed in your Factory it will be plug and play so in combination with a proper planning a lot of stress and delay and risk for Operational losses can be prohibited!
The Industry 4.0 Network configuration en Configuration of Intelligent Instruments, Valve Islands and Aktor/Sensor devices can be quit time consuming, especially the first project when all the typical’s need to be tested and customized on the PLC software.
Additional it gives you the opportunity to configure and implement and test the (Predictive Maintenance) KPI improvements NOW. Under pressure of commissioning and startup planning this is something that is usually done much later.
The intelligent IA devices give a lot of extra Industry 4.0 Data. The difference with a classic wired Industrial Automation device is that you can now actually see immediately that a device is failing Instead of Quality systems that must assume that a device failed in between a certain time slot between two calibrations which is beneficial for preventing off-spec and quality complains and claims from the customers.