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Like other state-of-the-art innovations such as Block-chain and edge-computing, AI and IoT are at the forefront of an industrial infrastructure revolution.Now companies and companies are investing in these trending technologies to gain a competitive edge and boost their efficiencies.Manufacturing automation is the use of control systems such as PC / PLCs / PACs etc. to regulate manufacturing procedures and equipment by removing as much human interference as possible, and replacing hazardous assembly operations with controlled ones. Industrial automation is tightly related to technical regulation.
Where to include automation in your industry-
- Process Plant Automation.
- Manufacturing Automation System.
Process Plant Automation- In process industry,the product is the result of many chemical processes in process industries, based on some raw materials.Many of such sectors are pharmaceutical, petrochemical, cement, paper, etc.Therefore, the entire production plant is streamlined to generate the high-quality, more efficient , highly effective physical process variables control system.
Level 0 Plant: This level consists of machines which are closest to processes. In this, sensors and actuators are used to translate the signals from the machines and physical variables for the purpose of analysis and to produce the control signals.
Direct Process Control: In this level, automatic controllers and monitoring systems acquire the process information from sensors and correspondingly drives the actuator systems. Some of the tasks of this level are-
- Data acquisition
- Plant monitoring
- Data checking
- Open and closed loop control
- Reporting
Plant Supervisory Control: This level commands the automatic controllers by setting the targets or set points. It looks after the control equipment for optimal process control. Some of the tasks of this level are:
- Plant monitoring performance
- Optimal process control
- Plant coordination
- Failure detection, etc.
Production Scheduling and Control: This level solves the decision-making problems like resource allocation, production target, maintenance management, and so on. Tasks of this level include:
- Production dispatch
- Inventory control
- Production supervision, production reporting, etc.
Plant Management: This is the higher level of the process plant automation. It deals more with commercial activities than technical activities. Tasks of this level include-
- Market and Customer analysis
- Orders and sale statistics
- Production planning
- Capacity and order balance, etc.
Manufacturing Automation System- The manufacturing companies use machines /robots to produce the product from materials.Some of these industries include textiles and clothing, glass and ceramics, food and beverages, paper making and so on. At every stage , new trends in manufacturing systems have been utilizing automation systems such as material handling, machining, assembly, inspection and packaging.Production automation becomes very flexible and efficient with the computer-aided control and industrial robotic systems.
Machinery Level: In this level various sensing and actuating devices controls the manufacturing process. It is an instrumentation level of machine control. Tasks of this level include data collection, signal check, and machine control.
Cell or Group Level: This is another automation level at which operation of a group of machines within manufacturing cells are co-ordinated. Various automated controllers like PLCs are employed for such control of machines.
Shop Floor Level: It is a supervisory automated level where supervision and coordination of several manufacturing cells are carried out.
Plant Level: This automation level performs the activities of production monitoring, control, and scheduling, etc. HMIs employed at this level facilitate to control all the manufacturing process variables remotely.
Enterprise Level: This level does all the management related activities such as production planning and scheduling, etc.
New products and services are being developed based on the fusion of AI and IoT technologies. Other technologies like Block-chain and edge computing are also becoming more prevalent and their amalgamation with IoT also offers new applications. ShunyaOS is one such platform that helps you build solutions in AI and IoT. To get more updates on ShunyaOS Click here.
