Factory Machinery Runtime and Operation Counter Monitoring (Case Study)

Factory Machinery Monitoring – Monitor Production Machine Runtime and Operation Counter

Background: An industrial printing company needed a method to count the amount of times a machine printed in a work day as well as recording the uptime/downtime of the machines to better increase their production efficiency.

Challenges: Their industrial printers cycle very fast so making sure the counts were registered accurately and consistently was top priority. Finding a method to relay each cycle was the greatest hurdle, as well as figuring out how to record the printer’s runtime/downtime.

Device Purchased: Each machine uses one Koda 100 Ethernet I/O controller for pulse counter, one iTrixx-NHM Ethernet Hour Meter to record runtime/downtime.

Installation: The device is installed on inside area of the control cabinet and powered by equipment’s control voltage (24V).

Solutions: To use the iTrixx-NHM Ethernet Hour Meter and the Koda 100 combination provides the solutions for both issues. Registering each counter can be done using one of digital inputs wired to a contact or hall effect sensor that records each cycle or pulse and tying it to a counter using our webpages.

Counter Configure – Koda 100

There are two digital inputs on the Koda 100 that can read a 5-24VDC “on” signal from the sensor, at each time this is recorded it adds to the counter.

To activate the counter, go to Services – In/Out page, click the “Edit” icon on the input that the sensor is connected to, the Set Digital Input page is displayed. You can give this counter a name in the Name box, check the Use box to activate this input, and select Counter-R for resettable counter from the dropdown lists in the Type box. Select your preferred display type from the Display box, then enter N (Input Normal mode) in the Command field and click SAVE. For troubleshooting you may wish to set Display to Values. Upon returning to the In/Out page, the DIN1 value should read 0.

Runtime/Downtime Configure – iTrixx-NHM

There are two meter counters on the software for each iTrixx-NHM device, we use one for runtime, and one for downtime. To trigger the meter, we wire both inputs to a circuit on the printer that outputs a 5-24DC voltage when the printer is running, use the digital input 1 to trigger Meter 1 for runtime, digital input 2 to trigger Meter 2 for downtime. Depending on whether the state of this circuit is “On”, the runtime meter is counting, when the circuit is “Off”, Meter 2 is counting.

Factory Machinery Monitoring – Monitor Production Machine Runtime and Operation Counter

Counter Configure – Koda 100

Runtime/Downtime Configure – iTrixx-NHM

Activate the Meter

Configure the Digital Inputs to Trigger the Meter

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