Plant floor visual management system by Red Lion

By Staff Report September 4, 2024 10:58 am IST

FlexEdge with HDMI makes it easy to take full advantage of Red Lion’s ready-to-deploy plant floor visual management system.

Keep the production teams on-target and fully informed of critical KPIs, helping drive efficiency and enabling real-time, actionable responses when needed. By utilising the onboard HDMI port and the Crimson software user-friendly configuration capabilities, it is easy to develop and deploy customised dashboards to a smart TV.

Adapt the displays to meet specific requirements using Crimson’s advanced programming capabilities.

·  Directly collect data from devices such as PLCs, drives, barcode scanners and more. Map data to PLCs, PCs and SCADA systems with a simple no-code and drag-and-drop interface to allow a Siemens® PLC to communicate with an Allen Bradley® drive in mere seconds

·  Use the built-in graphics library, with over 5,000 drag-and-drop elements to visually represent the application, including tanks, gauges and other industrial graphics choices.

·  Sync data to FTP servers and MS SQL Server to send information where it needs to go.

·   Set up alerts for important events using the built-in mail manager, which sends notifications to one or more specified recipients via email, with attached reports or logged data files.

·   Use the built-in Cloud Connectors to link your productivity application data to one or multiple cloud providers, including Azure, AWS, Cumulocity, Sparkplug, Aveva or other MQTT brokers.

FlexEdge with HDMI also makes it easier to develop and deploy productivity dashboards that include sample productivity templates. One can choose from up to six commonly used templates available as demo databases in Crimson.

Sample productivity templates include:  

·         Cumulative Work Cell Status

·         Process Status

·         Andon Board

·         Production Run

·         Safet Line Down Warning.