Shop Floor Automation/Production Monitoring -- MIDRANGE-L

× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.

We're looking into doing some type of shop floor automation or production
monitoring. The basic idea is that we'll have sensors on our machines that
are connected to software that will provide some sort of graphical display
of what's happening on the floor. We'd also like the ability to set
alarms, so if something goes out of bounds there would ba visual (and/or
audible) cues, and of course we'd like to have everything connected to our
database on the AS/400 -- both to get information about how to set the
alarms in the first place (based on the product being manufactured, etc.)
and to store history about the  job's running conditions.

Several names have been mentioned: WonderWare, Intellution, and Patrick
Townsend Associates. Does anyone have any experience with any of these?
Any others we should look into?

Thanks very much in advance for any info  you can pass along.

Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.