Factory Equipment Center continuously monitors the counters of all feeders in use on the shop floor. Once a preset number of operating cycles has been reached, the system locks the respective unit and e-mails a maintenance request to appropriately qualified employees.

Complete maintenance cycle, using the example of a feeder: As a central management instance, Factory Equipment Center continuously controls and monitors the asset’s location and status – even if it is no longer on the shop floor.

Facts on Open Automation on June 28: Host Laszlo Sereny talks with his studio guests about the ‘Perfect link between production and maintenance planning’.