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I/Gear®
notification services |
The Problem |
is built on the principal of “improved communication results in improved productivity”. Communication must be complete, accurate, and delivered to the right people at the right time for production to be optimized.
I/Gear Notification Services is a manufacturing solution that sends real-time and scheduled messages from the plant floor to mobile phones, pagers, email servers, and other communication systems. |
An unplanned event such as equipment malfunction, quality issue, or material shortage, coupled with poor communication increases the cost of manufacturing.
Common communication practices that erode profitability include:
- Delayed awareness of down assets.
- Operators not quickly escalating alarms to supervisors and maintenance personnel.
- Hiring personnel for manual tasks such as data entry and monitoring of asset status.
- Not providing management with proactive real-time notification of new orders, outages, and periodic production levels.
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The Solution |
| I/Gear Notification Services leverages comprehensive device connectivity to monitor multiple assets on the plant floor in real time, enabling messages, reports, and events to be distributed to any communication system. With I/Gear Notification Services: |
- Problems are addressed faster, saving time
and reducing cost.
- Personnel resources are minimized with automated
asset monitoring, message delivery, and
production reporting.
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- Notification is escalated upward and outward
if problems are not addressed in a timely
fashion.
- Proactive reports can be delivered to management
indicating production levels, new orders,
order status, inventory levels, etc.
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Before I/Gear Notification Services: |
| Issues or alarms would arise, at which point line-side staff would either attempt to resolve the issues themselves or attempt to locate appropriate resources to resolve the problem, causing delays. Larger issues and trends would ultimately be communicated to management either too late or not at all, creating significant impact on equipment efficiencies and performance. |
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After I/Gear notification services: |
| Issues, Alarms and Scheduled Information Requests are discovered and attended to in real time, automatically. Key personnel are notified and are able to respond more quickly and efficiently. Negative trends in the manufacturing process are discovered and the appropriate staff notified before resulting in a serious effect on the process. Overall, equipment efficiencies are no longer affected by problems going unnoticed or unresolved. |
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Product Features
I/Gear Notification Services is comprised of four main
components: Subscription Management (Web Deployed)
– Data Collection – Notification Generation –
Notification Delivery.
I/Gear Notification Services is installed on a single
Windows based computer within the production
facility and connected to the manufacturing process
via network connection. This will allow the system to
monitor and react to situations as they arise without
the need for any intervention. Initially the Subscription
Management component is used to set-up subscribers,
escalation parameters, subscription type, data collection
and data providers. The system then monitors and reacts
to any/all of the configured events that it has been
set-up to monitor by initiating the appropriate response
in terms of annunciation, paging, emailing, etc. If a
problem is not resolved within the appropriate time
period, escalation is implemented to notify the next
set of users/groups configured within the subscription
management component.
Technology interfaces supported by I/Gear Notification
Services include PLCs, databases, Web Services, XML
documents, .Net assemblies, TCP devices, weight scales,
barcode scanners, email servers, proprietary systems
such as Lincoln welders, Vorne LED displays, Atlas Copco
torque controllers, IBM Websphere MQ, Cognex Insight
vision systems, and many other serial, Ethernet, OLEDB,
ODBC and OPC compliant devices and systems.
If you are interested in learning more, please do not
hesitate to contact us at sales@igearonline.com. |
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