Cermate Historic Path Function Makes Precision Manufacturing More Efficient

05/20/2021 | No. TN056S-E_V1.0

Consumer commodities always have high volume and comprehensive models; the biggest challenge for precision manufacturing is efficiently and effectively producing while reducing extra waste.

Using the Historic Path function on Cermate PM Designer/PanelExpress to generate a visualized chart helps operators quickly determine the production result. When the calculated critical data is now available, the know-how used for cross-checking avoids frequent errors from happening.

Optimized Flow in Data Integration

In Industry 4.0 trend, efficiency for operators and machines has a much higher priority. That means HMIs and Gateways are not one function that only acts as operating devices anymore. In a factory, you must have a data exchange center that can communicate and manage data from different PLCs among separate production lines. For example, when a motor demands a significant current that would lead to machine damage, an error code is sent from the assembly area. As long as there’s a data exchange center, it will trigger the data exchange center and stop the IQC Area and SMT area process once any error is sent from the Assembly Area. This will immediately avoid fatal damage to the production line. As you use Cermate HMIs, Edge Boxes, and PCs with PanelExpress, all of them support mainstream protocols and data exchange functions that make the manufacturing flow more intelligent.

Exchange Data for a Few Systems

Unique Feature in Data Exchange:

Exchange to another Network Are you still fighting with expensive and difficult network routers? Does the PLC need to get data from another network? Throw it away; now, you can simply publish data between two different networks.

(support model: two Ethernet ports IT series panel)

Extention feature “COV”; The new “Change on value” feature

When the system contains too many devices in the old design, the constantly poll and respond data will cause the communication data overflow. Besides exchanging data, we also develop a way to keep the data safe. We can now use the panel in any massive node among PLC systems without communication data overflow or lose any data due to communication blockage with COV feature. In other words, the panel does not always have to continually poll all the nodes one by one because the COV feature will significantly reduce the communication flow.