PLC & SCADA-HMI Disaster Recovery
PLC & SCADA-HMI Disaster Recovery
Scantime Increases Company Production by 25%
Our troubleshooting abilities were called upon to analyse a production process for a Durham-based company. The process was suffering from problems in producing a particularly difficult product, which in-turn increased downtime making the line extremely inefficient. Upon studying the operation and production equipment over several days, we turned our focus to the Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC and the PLC program which was responsible for the control of all this equipment.
Several days of program analysis went by and we detected a small bug in the program operation that occurred for only a few milliseconds, could this be the cause the problems? After further program analysis, our engineers traced the problem and diagnosed it as a PLC program design error, which has probably been lurking in the background since its original design and installation, only making itself apparent when this product type was introduced.
Over the following week, our engineers introduced modifications to the existing PLC program and solutions were implemented to help fix this problem, upon Download, the results were instantly noticed, line equipment began to work the way it was intended, no more stoppages and the line production increased by a dramatic 25%, the feedback from the company Engineering Manager was outstanding; "You would never believe what a difference this has made to production.".
