Delta helps Polish plastic packaging manufacturer achieve centralised control of factory23 June 2022

A manufacturer of plastic bags for food packaging that operates a factory in Poland has been using Delta automation technology on its production lines for years.

The company has recently expanded their facility and installed additional machines. As a result of the expansion, the manufacturer decided they had too many machines to continue monitoring and controlling them individually. The company needed to deploy a centralised control and management.

The vacuum and high-barrier plastic bags produced at the plant are used in the food and beverage industry. Several heat sealing machines and conveyer systems were in operation at the factory before the expansion. There was no way to collect and analyse production data from the machines from a single location. A new, customised solution would need to have the ability to collect and aggregate data from all machines, including the new ones, and generate the corresponding reports and graphs.

Since the manufacturer was already using Delta Electronics automation hardware, it chose Delta’s DIAView SCADA solution to implement centralised control and visualisation. Delta’s trusted partner in Poland, Induprogress, was able to deploy a combination of DIAView SCADA and SQL Server to collect production logs and statistics and aggregate that data inside a central database. Induprogress has been the official and exclusive distributor of Delta Electronics industrial automation solutions in Poland since 2010.

The system implemented for the packaging factory allows users to choose individual machines and generate reports that span the selected time period without requiring an operator go to the physical machine and use the HMI. The reports can be generated from the factory’s control room or anywhere else within the plant. The functionality of each machine’s HMI is now also available from within DIAView, allowing remote control and operation. The DIAView system accesses the production information hosted in the SQL database to generate charts and reports.

The Delta solution is built around a standalone instance of DIAView, which is also available in client/server and a browser-based versions. Additional Delta equipment in the plastic bag plant includes an ethernet switch to enable communication between DIAView and the machinery and four units each of the following:

• DVP SV Series programmable logic controllers
• DVP EN Series Ethernet communication modules
• HMIs
• DVP Digital and Analog modules

In addition, ASDA-A2 servo drives have been installed to enable the bag making and filling processes. VFD-E series Delta motor drives come into play for sealing tasks.The manufacturer now uses the new DIAView SCADA system to control individual machines and monitor the production line. Trend graphs are available and operators can check for anomalies and generate reports. Some of the metrics available include total machine running hours, average production speed, and machine efficiency. Users can receive different levels of permissions and an operator log stores the history of each user’s actions, making it possible to monitor operator performance. The software interface has also been translated into Polish to make operation easier for local workers.

Operations Engineer

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