SITRANS store IQ Foundry Furnace Monitoring

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SITRANS store IQ Foundry Furnace Monitoring

A foundry has an existing PLC whose main function was to monitor 5 furnace systems that uses 23 thermocouples to monitor various temperature aspects of the operation. Initially, they had decided to purchase a new PLC that would give them a local view and alarming of those temperatures; however, the cost and compliance factor led them to look at alternatives.

The local area Siemens sales partner introduced the idea of digitalization and a remote monitoring solution. Working with Siemens' Engineered Instrument Solution team, based out of Harleysville Pa., a system was developed that provided an IOT enclosure to monitor 23 thermocouple inputs.
This system included the following:

A display with the ability to set and monitor local alarms
One S7-1200 controller with thermocouple modules to read furnace temperatures and display on a TP-700 HMI
An IOT2040 gateway that reads data via the S7 protocol and sends data to MindSphere, with the SITRANS store IQ monitoring app connected to the customers Ethernet plant network.

The hardware was configured, tested and shipped to the customer site. From there, onboarding of the IoT was done via virtual meet with the support of the US PA DEL team

Having the temperature reading in front of us gives a great benefit in our ability to quickly react to process variations. We can easily notify our staff to resolve issues quickly and keep the operation running smoothly

The customer saw the advantage to remotely monitor these temperatures 24/7 on their mobile devices or PCs with the ability to alarm and notify their staff if temperature parameters left the desired ranges. This, in turn, facilitates the operators to maintain the high production rates and maintain consistent dimensional accuracy of the casting process without sacrificing production time. The customer is happy with the solution and has been operating 24/7 with no issues. Alarms have been created and notifications assigned to staff.

Release Year 2021

Data - the basis of digitalization

Release Year 2021

“We give the user a valuable time advantage “

Completion 2021

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