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Nathan Slider - Schneider Electric

Software Solutions Specialist

How Warehouse and Distribution Systems (Conveyor systems) are being designed

for Maintenance

Maintenance Challenges for Material Handling Systems

• Desire to achieve maintenance & energy savings• Reduce system downtime – while increasing reliability• Multiple equipment vendors with independent

proprietary software• No means of reporting on the total

facility system performance• No means of monitoring operations

ability to maximize the output

of the material handling solution

Principles of Maintenance &

Operational Practices– Detection: Using preventive and

predictive technologies to inspect,

detect and then correct small defects

before they can become costly repairs

– Restoration: Restoring equipment to optimal conditions

– Prevention: Preventing small defects from becoming major problems by correcting them before they become costly repairs

Take a Strategic Approach to Operations and Maintenance

Focus on minimizing your risk and

reducing downtime:• identifying potential areas of risk and ensuring

that you have the necessary skills and resources to quickly address any potential events as they occur

• includes developing a complete picture of all your installed automation equipment at the machine component level

Maintenance Methodology Steps to optimum performance

• Visualization• Reporting / Analyze data

• Provide real time alerts

• Energy Management Actions used by Maintenance

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VisualizationA complete Monitoring and Visualization Solution (MVS) provides distribution centers with real-time visibility to the plant floor

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure.

View systems real-time such as conveyor status,

lane capacity, alarm faults,

energy data, etc.).

Visualization (Click Thru)

Maintenance & Operations have drill-down data visibility with intuitive navigation

Reporting / Analyze dataMVS also provides a very powerful set of reporting tools to help

the maintenance staff analyze data

Reports / Dashboard: Motor Status, Conveyor Availability, Energy, Recirculation Analysis, etc.

Reporting /Analyze data (Click Thru)

Total Downtime Total Number of Faults

E-Stop Counter

Jam Counter

Provide Real-Time Alerts to Maintenance Staff

• An MVS also provides the maintenance staff data and alerts on the plant floor equipment (e.g. motor statuses, jams, missing pins, etc.).

• Consider the addition of real time video integration that can help maintenance staff understand a real time fault/alarm alert with a visual, by

• Leveraging PTZ cameras to Pan Tilt Zoom to the exact location of the alarm fault to provide a visual (example: Fire door jammed with boxes, or jam due to a mechanical / electrical fault) allowing maximum use of visibility across the DC with minimal amount of cameras

Data Alerts & Alarms on the plant floor equipment (e.g. motor

statuses, jams, missing pins, etc.) Equipment Filter

Alarms Correlated with

Video Feed

PTZ cameras to Pan Tilt Zoom to the exact location of the alarm fault

(example: fire door jammed with boxes or jam due to a mechanical

Energy Management Visibility helps Maintenance Prioritize

Visibility to the power quality and consumption of the incoming power.

Motor Faults due to Power Quality Occurrence / Direction of Power Fault (Upstream / Downstream)

Downtime Reporting resulting from PQ Issues.

All of this MHS Management Data is available at your

fingertips with Mobility Solutions!

For More Information:

Speaker email: Nathan.Slider@Schneider-Electric.comWeb site: www.schneider-electric.com