• System integration for automation
• Extraction of data from the fieldbus level into the cloud via OPC UA communication
• Evaluation and visualisation of data

Assignment

Our customer - a system integrator from the automation sector for the automotive and food industry - commissioned connyun to develop a product for vertical integration. What was needed was a solution to extract information from the fieldbus level to a cloud application, locally or web-based. And, based on this, evaluations and visualisation of status and service.

Solution

As a software partner, connyun provided the infrastructure and connectivity and developed a detailed visualisation. This means that the system integrator and also, in future, the machine manufacturer can remotely call up information about machines via a cloud solution. The evaluations allow for excellent product monitoring and in so doing enable continuous improvements in machines and processes. The solution was transferred to a pilot operation.

• Digitisation of a collaborative robot
• End-to-end digitised production process
• Identification of unscheduled downtimes and increase in productivity

Assignment

As an IT service provider and software partner, we were commissioned by our customer to digitise a collaborative robot for real-time monitoring at millisecond intervals. In addition to this, the focus was on the job status of the machine in order to gain a detailed insight into production capacity and jobs carried out.

Solution

Based on the newly installed OPC UA server, connyun enabled the customer to extract the necessary information in a targeted manner and make it available to the development team. The solution allows conclusions to be drawn about the behaviour of the machine during the execution of various jobs and also active monitoring in the event of the failure of individual components. Unscheduled downtimes are directly identified and productivity is increased.

• Elimination of downtimes in a fully-automated station
• Data transparency via networking and implementation of a notification system
• Active evaluations of the system to increase productivity

Assignment

The production managers and foremen of a medium-sized automation company were not sufficiently aware of the availability of a fully-automated station. Because the required output quantity was not being achieved, missing capacities had to be procured at great expense. They also found it difficult to ascertain what, of particular significance, had led to the station downtime.

Solution

connyun networked the entire station and all integrated machines. This made all relevant data transparent for evaluation. A notification system with escalation levels was also set up to report failures without delay. The causes of the downtimes were identified and rectified. Today, employees are actively working with the system to further increase productivity.

• Automation of production process in the automotive industry
• Connecting the production station to a cloud-based IoT platform
• Implementation of a customised user interface

Assignment

In the brake caliper production of a Tier 1 automotive supplier, the removal of body components and the assembly of conveyor belts was to be digitised. Connyun was commissioned to connect the station - two industrial robots, camera systems and other systems - to a cloud-based Industrial IoT platform and to implement a user interface that provides a meaningful and simple visualisation of the data.

Solution

Both requirements were successfully implemented. With the help of an OPC UA server and a device agent, the requirement to use only the customer's existing IT infrastructure was also fulfilled. The result is the real-time connection of the station to the connyun I4_Platform and the customization of the user interfaces of the connyun I4_Machine Optimizer and I4_Station Optimizer. The project will enter the productive phase after completion of the pilot operation.