Today’s manufacturing setups rely
increasingly on technology. It is common to have all sources
of equipment on the shop floor, commanded by industrial PCs or
PLCs connected by an industrial network to other factory
resources. Also, production systems are becoming more and more
autonomous, requiring less operator intervention in everyday
normal operation. This requires use of computers for control
and supervision of production systems, industrial networks and
distributed software architectures. It also requires design of
application software that is distributed on the shop floor,
taking advantage of the flexibility provided by using
programmable equipment. Consequently, there is an extensive
mixture of human and machine labour in actual manufacturing
systems. That situation, while desirable because agility is a
key issue for productivity and efficiency of actual companies,
poses some difficulties to efficient cooperation between
humans and machines. Human-machine interfaces (HMI) are
consequently very important in taking advantage of the
flexibility and capabilities of installed production machines
in cooperation with their human operators.
Product: KONCHECK
KonCheck is a PLC or PC based data
acquisition and control software solution for SPM’s, designed
and "customized" according to the user requirement used in
Quality Assurance to do mundane tasks like testing products
that will conform to its rated standards. Designed and
developed in Matlab, its robustness lies in the foundation of
the mathworks, founded in 1984, The MathWorks has become the
leading global provider of software for technical computing
and Model-Based Design (http://www.mathworks.com )