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A plastic film manufacturing company operates multiple production lines, each equipped with automatic winding machines from different brands and with different control systems. Because the PLC communication protocols of these devices are not unified, the company faces challenges in achieving centralized monitoring and unified data management for the winding process, which has negatively impacted production efficiency, quality control, and the intelligence level of equipment maintenance. To address this, WideIOT offers a remote monitoring system solution for automatic winding machines based on an industrial IoT platform.

By deploying the industrial IoT platform on the company's local servers or in the cloud, the system supports integration with PLCs from brands such as Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, Delta, and Inovance. It collects realtime key parameters including winding speed, tension value, roll diameter changes, accumulated meter count, number of roll changes, operating status, and fault codes, and standardizes the data for further use. Additionally, the platform provides unified data interfaces to the company's MES, ERP, quality analysis systems, and other enterpriselevel applications, helping build an efficient, transparent, and intelligent winding shop floor management system that supports lean production and full lifecycle equipment management.

Key Features

Supports parsing and adaptation of various PLC protocols used in automatic winding machines, with realtime acquisition of critical parameters such as winding tension, line speed, roll diameter, length measurement, roll change frequency, and operating hours. This enables the company to gain full visibility into equipment operating conditions and respond promptly to anomalies.

Performs data cleaning, transformation, and standardization on raw data, unifying unit specifications and data formats. This facilitates the development of efficiency analysis models, quality prediction models, and energy consumption assessment models for the winding process, thereby enhancing the value of data utilization.

Enables centralized remote management of all automatic winding machines, supporting functions such as device configuration, parameter distribution, realtime operating status monitoring, fault alarming, historical data query, and geolocation tracking, thus establishing a smart operation and maintenance system for the winding shop floor.

Provides multiple standardized data interfaces including MQTT, Modbus, HTTP, and OPC UA, allowing fast integration with the company's upperlevel information systems. This delivers reliable data support for decisionmaking in production scheduling, quality traceability, equipment maintenance, and more.