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As important mechanical equipment, roll forming machines are widely used in steel structures, color steel panel housing, and factory building construction. However, traditional equipment management methods have numerous shortcomings. Equipment manufacturers find it difficult to achieve comprehensive monitoring and precise management of equipment distributed across the country—resulting in problems such as faults going undetected, poor data recording and analysis, and high travel frequency and workload. These issues not only affect production efficiency but also increase maintenance costs, posing challenges to after-sales service development. A more efficient and intelligent management system is therefore needed to address these challenges.

Solution Architecture

To address this, WideIOT offers an IoT solution based on data acquisition gateways, helping equipment manufacturers achieve online management and precise maintenance of distributed equipment nationwide—improving maintenance services and corporate image.

On-Site Device Layer – Includes roll forming machines and their associated PLC control cabinets. The PLC performs data processing and outputs control commands according to preset logic programs, enabling automated production of color steel.

Data Acquisition Gateway Layer – Serving as the bridge between on-site devices and the cloud platform, the data acquisition gateway collects data from PLC controllers and performs preliminary data processing and cleansing. The gateway then transmits data to the cloud platform via wireless networks such as 4G and 5G.

Cloud Platform Layer – The cloud platform receives, stores, analyzes, and displays on-site device data, and provides a rich set of functions—including real-time monitoring, historical data queries, alarm notifications, equipment statistics and management, and remote maintenance. Users can access the cloud platform via computers, mobile phones, and other terminal devices to view equipment operating status and key parameters.

Main Functions

Real-Time Monitoring – Users can view roll forming machine operating status, production progress, and fault information in real time via the cloud platform—including single-pulse length, overshoot amount, forming distance, forming time, and cutter time—presented as visualized data reports or trend charts.
Intelligent Alerting – Real-time monitoring of data changes based on preset alarm rules identifies equipment fault risks. Once abnormal data is detected, the system automatically sends alert notifications to management personnel via WeChat, SMS, or email—helping quickly identify fault causes and perform maintenance.
Equipment Management – The platform displays equipment location distribution, quantity and types, operating status, process parameters, alarm frequency, and maintenance work orders through intuitive formats such as charts, dashboards, and electronic maps—helping management personnel clearly understand equipment conditions, optimize maintenance plans, and improve resource utilization.
Smart Maintenance – Enterprises can quickly create maintenance work orders and perform operations such as editing, dispatching, reviewing, and returning—rationally arranging maintenance tasks and ensuring all work is carried out safely and reliably. Engineers can also perform remote PLC programming, debugging, and program upload/download for off-site equipment—improving maintenance efficiency.
Data Analytics – Through in-depth analysis of collected data and by integrating information such as equipment production efficiency and fault frequency, enterprises can rationally uate equipment operating performance and capacity limits—providing strong support for scientific and rational decision-making and helping ensure equipment safety, maintenance optimization, and new product development.