Efficiency and accuracy on production lines mean better production and use of available resources. That is why accurate data management and shop floor monitoring systems are equally important in improving production performance.
Marposs’ long term experience in process control and quality assurance offers customers support in the effort to optimize manufacturing practices. Marposs provides a very wide range of sensors and manual gauges that can be connected to various electronic display units. Among these, Duo is the latest development to keep process and information under control in an efficient and smart way, for simple either manually performed or automated measurements.
SPC systems: the importance of automated data collection
Data is important. It forms the basis for production reports, on which important decisions are made to improve production performance. Thus, any problems with data collection can result in a negative impact on the whole business.
Before the advent of Statistical Process Control (SPC) systems, manufacturers were using manual methods of data collection for producing reports, which leaves room to untimeliness, the risk of inaccuracy and bias, making collected data no longer reliable.
An automatic data collection for production lines significantly improves the accuracy of valuable reports for management: automatically-collected data is transferred into computerized spreadsheets for reporting purposes, generating an automated report as the base for corrective actions for cost-effective processes.
The purpose of industrial computers: managing real-time data
Traceability is one of the most important aspects of manufacturing operations. Receiving data directly from any machine on the shop floor in real-time is the key for cost-effective production, and that is precisely the purpose of real-time display units for manual applications.
Available real-time data allows manufacturers to fine-tune the production schedule, making it more accurate. Consequently, production performance can be improved:
setting up alerts in SPC Modules to inform quality management, production engineering, and scheduling when there is a deviation in performance can help saving a huge amount of money in lost production time.
Moreover, manufacturers relying on real-time data gain a significant competitive advantage in today’s business models, where customers expect immediate responses. Manufacturers who can deliver quotations as quickly as possible can win the most deals: providing real-time data on standard as well as custom product configurations guarantee more quotations and proposals will become orders.
DUO: the latest compact solution for the display and storage of simple quality measures
Marposs can provide a seamless, integrated family of products that can be used within a wide range of industrial applications: from simple manual gauging, to fully automatic measurement and inspection systems, ensuring reliability and consistency along the complete supply chain. DUO combines the practicality of an extremely compact design with premium features of superior level gauge computers.
DUO innovation lies in its ability to make a measurement device more user-friendly, more reliable, easier to set up, and less expensive. Similar in size to a smartphone, Duo is extremely small and powerful, featuring a 4.3 touchscreen unit for display and storage of measuring data acquired through its two input channels, which can simultaneously display two measurements at once in either analog or digital mode.
The system is portable, easy to configure, and provides a clear visualization of measurement status thanks to the user-friendly interface which allows very intuitive programming of the application, through icons organized in a clear and intuitive structure. What’s more, unique to DUO, it can be operated in multiple European, western and eastern languages.