Company Profile
Hospira is a diversified health care
company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets innovative
products and services – from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and
cure. Hospira based in Donegal Town, produce hospital products
including drug delivery systems.
Situation
Hospira had a requirement to capture the
performance of their production machines using a variety of PLCs already
installed in the plant. This data was to include shift and batch
efficiency calculations.
Solution
Measuresoft, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, proposed and
installed a solution based on its ScadaPro product running on a
Microsoft WindowsTM server with two client PCs running Microsoft Windows
95. The system was configured to acquire data from a network of Allen
Bradley PLC-5s and a Datascan network.
Hospira now has a machine monitoring system that:
- Calculates efficiency for shift of each machine.
- Calculates number of faults and duration of faults for each fault
condition.
- Produces meaningful trend information and reports.
- Reports generated automatically at end of shift.
- A report of line stoppages each day is generated automatically.
- Provides archive of production results for tracability purposes.
- Directly exports data into 123 Spreadsheets so that it can be manually
filtered using a tool familiar to the user.
Benefits
- The system provides Hospira with very important production,
maintenance and diagnostic information.
- The data produced aids preventative maintenance and
traceability.
- ABB customers immediately benefit from
new Knowledge Solution applications providing details analysis of
their manufacturing processes.
- This successful solution is now being rolled out into other
production areas of the plant.
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