Customer Success Story - VEC Technology, LLC
公司规模
200-1,000
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- GENESIS64
- BridgeWorX
- ReportWorX
- WebHMI
技术栈
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Access
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 分析与建模 - 实时分析
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
适用行业
- 海洋与航运
适用功能
- 离散制造
- 质量保证
用例
- 自动化制造系统
- 质量预测分析
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
VEC Technology’s Greenville, PA. location provides custom composite manufacturing. Its parent company, J&D Acquisitions, also owns Larson Boats, a Little Falls, MN manufacturer of recreation boat hulls that utilizes the VEC process, “a patented, state-of-the-art, computer controlled manufacturing process that guarantees that every part is made to the most exacting standards of fit and finish, resulting in parts with unparalleled beauty and unprecedented quality.” VEC Technology considers itself a one stop shop for OEMs, providing part concepts, design, engineering, tooling and manufacturing, with seven molding stations at its Pennsylvania facility. The company states that manufacturing cells utilizing its Patented Floating Mold technology receive a “low-cost, high-quality, extremely accurate, closed-mold solution” and that VEC Technology has achieved “great success in the marine, construction, containers, transportation, farming equipment and recreational vehicle markets.” Larson Boats, itself a customer of VEC Technology, can process boat hulls in the 17 to 24 ft range at its Minnesota location, which includes eight molding stations and an automation mix plant.
挑战
VEC Technology required an HMI/SCADA solution coupled with data bridging/reporting/archiving that can be used over the Web, can integrate with the OPC communications protocol and can directly interface with the company’s product databases. They required the solution to control and monitor the company’s patented closed molding operations. They wanted a system that could manage various parameters based on several criteria, including the specific product being produced, ambient conditions and material properties. Also necessary was the ability to provide long term storage of multiple key parameters for product warranty information. The company sought a product with future-proof technology. They also looked for a solution that presented a simple user interface for making edits, as well as an easily maintained Web-based client/server architecture. VEC Technology aimed for a “single vendor” approach, intending to reduce both the number of automation interfaces as well as extra support staff to maintain various systems.
解决方案
VEC Technology selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ 64- bit HMI/SCADA software, in addition to BridgeWorX™ (real-time workflow for data bridging), ReportWorX™ (enterprise reporting, charting and analysis), OPC Server (supporting both OPC-UA and OPC-DA connectivity), and WebHMI (Web-based, real-time visualization). The engineers at VEC Technology allowed themselves a 10-month development cycle for the first installation, ensuring that their in-house personnel would become more familiar with the selected HMI/SCADA solution. The software would need to interface with multiple systems and hardware including eight Modicon PLCs between the two locations, five Delta RMC controllers, temperature/pressure/proximity gauges, scales and valves. The selected HMI/SCADA software would need to handle approximately 1,200 tags per molding station. VEC Technology maintains four servers and 16 client stations for this particular project. It uses several Microsoft applications including Microsoft Office, Access (to modify process input parameters) and SQL Server (for longterm historical data storage).
运营影响
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