Banner wireless IIoT solutions: how to achieve overall equipment effectiveness
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Advanced Motion & Controls Ltd. supplies products by Banner Engineering, including wireless solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things. The manufacturer offers an online guide for using these solutions for machine monitoring and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Users learn how to bind the radios, run site surveys, and customize.
Customers can expand available information beyond the local indication offered by a standard tower light with a Banner TL70 Modular Tower Light, with a wireless radio base or segment, for example.
Numerous features and advantages
By combining the wireless TL70 with a DXM Series wireless controller, users get remote monitoring of assets and access to previously unavailable data. This improves machine monitoring and OEE by meeting the challenges of machine location, access, and info availability. Beyond local indication, the TL70 from Advanced Motion & Controls offers remote status of every light module, tracks the cumulative time on for the module, counts the number of times the module transitions from the OFF to ON state, and counts parts. The system provides the data required to react quickly to system changes and drive efficiency improvements based on previously unavailable info.
Other features and advantages:
- Machine monitoring: monitor inputs with up to four tower light modules and eight states.
- Up time: track cumulative ON time for every light module for both flashing or solid independently.
- Event counters: count how many times every light module transitions from OFF to ON for both flashing or solid independently.
- Part counting: count parts produced or rejected with internal 32-bit register in the TL70.
- Remote master light: use a master light to show the combined status of all light modules.
- Time-stamped logging: time-stamped logging of light statuses, timers, counts, and part counts to a local SD memory card.
- SMS text/e-mail alerts: generate text or e-mail alerts based on specific events.
- Efficiency metrics: produce efficiency metrics with provided information (average availability, production speed, production quality.)
- Cloud monitoring: push data to Cloud server or PLC (through LAB or cellular connection) for remote viewing, alerting, and logging.
For more information, contact Advanced Motion & Controls.