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Checkweigher readings a noodle plant was discarding captured off serial ports into SQL Server, with real-time control charts for operators and a counting function written inside the Siemens WinCC HMI.
At an instant-noodle plant every pack crossed a checkweigher, and every reading was thrown away. Quality staff had no history and line operators had no live picture of whether a line was drifting.
Serial-to-IP converters on each scale mapped to virtual COM ports; a logger writing every reading to a central SQL Server; a real-time control chart the line operators watch with the acceptable band shaded; and a historical viewer for quality staff. Plus a production counting system converting raw pack counts to case totals per line, including a function written inside the Siemens WinCC program so totals appear on the plant HMI.
Rolled out line by line over five years and live in the plant through the last exchange.
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