Automated Vials Plate Loader

Business Function

  • Engineering
  • Quality Assurance
  • Manufacturing

Problem

The client was looking forward to enhancing their existing automation system for loading the plates following the best / benchmark industrial practices. The main challenges with their system included the following:

  • Unavailability of all the relevant I/O’s data to be exchanged with other software
  • Invisibility of important alerts
  • Missing PackML states
  • Inability to access cause of process failure due to absence of error logging
  • Missing safety features leading to potential serious injuries
Insurance-Client-Challenges

Solution

Acme One worked to provide the following solutions to:

  • Capture the relevant I/O’s data and variables to ensure their availability on ADS for external use
  • Operationalize the important alerts
  • Implement the missing PackML states
  • Log the errors
  • Implement the machine safety features

Result

  • I/O’s and machine relevant data is accessible for analyses
  • Alerts are operational to improve the Automation process
  • PackML states
  • operational consistency
  • Standard defined machine states and operational flow
  • Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) data
  • Root Cause Analyses (RCA) data
  • Following the error logs, one can pinpoint the cause of process failure Virtually no safety hazard

Tech Stack

  • Beckhoff PLC
  • TwinCat
  • Banner XS26