SCADA - Industry 4.0

SCADA is a must-have in today's industrial world that is progressing towards high-speed turnout but with razor-sharp focus on quality and traceability. For those of you unfamiliar with SCADA, it is Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, through which manufacturing companies or any other industry using PLCs / any other controllers to control their machines could leverage the power of remote monitoring / control of their machinery.

Why SCADA?

Reporting as direct benefit

Since data sits at the heart of quality control and assurance, it is imperative for modernization to include digitalization of factories. And, a prudent outlook towards digitalization must secure the adoption of SCADA implementation for all machinery and equipment. SCADA not only helps view production data with a view to identify quality issues in the produced jobs, but it helps determine productivity with a view to improve it progressively. It helps identify operator efficiency as well as track machine performance over time, which ultimately helps in targeted preventive maintenance of the machinery.

Traceability as add-on

Often, businesses face questions on traceability of quality of produced items back to the parameters (temperature / pressure / etc.) that were prevalent at the time of producing them. It is crucial to understand this closed loop in order to identify the errors that cause quality issues. It pays to idenfity the nature of the issue (equipment / tools / operator) in order to fix them earlier than later so the costs of such errors are minimized. And, this is also where a SCADA system can power a business to make quick and efficient decisions.

Implementation - How?

A typical SCADA implementation requires individual monitoring of machinery, as well as an implementation of a dashboard, which can monitor and control all the individual machines from a remote control center. At Uncode, we have architected the system in such a way that there is a device attached to each and every PLC called the RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) that has the sole responsibility to communicate with just one PLC / machine, and an overall command and control application, called the Dashboard, which allows individual control over the independent RTUs, extracting data from the RTUs and controlling them individually. This architecture provides for independent data collection, and better fault tolerance in case of outages.

The Solution

Introducing <b>Zenit SCADA RTU v3.0</b>, and <b>Zenit SCADA Dashboard v1.0</b>, which have been implemented to cater to all the above business needs. Visit www.uncodeit.co/products for more information.