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Vulcanizing machines are automated equipment used for vulcanizing various rubber and plastic products. They feature functions such as timed mold clamping, automatic pressure compensation, automatic temperature control, automatic timing, and alarms when the time is up, making them important equipment in the rubber industry. At present, most vulcanizing machines only achieve stand-alone automatic control via PLCs, with production processes handled locally. They lack the collection and management of operating data and are unable to generate responsive data reports, which slows down the pace of enterprise informatization and leads to situations such as idle resources and wasted production capacity.

The IoT solution for PLC data acquisition and remote monitoring enables functions such as networking, data acquisition, remote monitoring, and fault alarms for vulcanizing equipment. Enterprises can obtain real-time insight into the operating status, process parameters, production information, alarm data, and other information of each vulcanizing machine on factory data dashboards and MES platforms, thereby rationally adjusting a series of tasks such as production, operation and maintenance, and upkeep according to orders, ensuring that equipment is always in a highly efficient production mode and continuously improving production efficiency.

Implemented Functions

Monitor information such as machine type, quantity, location, and switch status (running, fault, standby, etc.), thereby forming a device OEE dashboard that helps intuitively understand equipment availability and optimize it.

View the process parameters of each machine, such as hydraulic pressure, heating power, steam pressure, heating temperature, motor frequency, and other data, and automatically issue alarm notifications when abnormal data is detected.

Obtain data such as the operating duration, production quantity, and pass rate of each machine, thereby uating the production capacity of the equipment, identifying abnormal production capacity, and rationally adjusting production plans.

Form a full lifecycle archive for equipment, understand information such as equipment alarm frequency and maintenance records, summarize experience and carry out improvements and optimization, and take timely maintenance measures to reduce losses from fault downtime.

Provide engineers with a network channel for remote PLC maintenance, enabling operations such as remote PLC programming and debugging and remote program upload/download, improving work efficiency and reducing operation and maintenance costs.