PLC Data Acquisition and Remote Maintenance Solution for Intelligent Labeling Machines

With the upgrading of domestic manufacturing, an increasing number of traditional standalone devices require enhanced automation levels to achieve equipment networking, remote monitoring, and remote maintenance. Traditional labeling machines, as common standalone devices, necessitate automation transformations, with PLC modifications being one of the efficient and practical approaches.

 This effectively improves labeling efficiency and accuracy, playing a crucial role in enhancing production efficiency and reducing costs for enterprises and factories.

In response, Wutongbolian introduces an edge intelligent gateway that enables data acquisition, protocol docking, remote operation and maintenance, and integration with MES systems or cloud platforms for labeling machine PLCs.

 This facilitates efficient and convenient management, control, and maintenance activities for factories, providing engineers with quick-configuration data interfaces, document reading and writing, and remote program uploading and downloading operations to support digital transformation and upgrades.

System Functionalities:

1. Data Acquisition: The gateway can collect device data from PLCs and touchscreens, such as labeling speed, label count, voltage, and current, and upload it in real-time to monitoring cloud platforms or MES systems.

2. Protocol Parsing: The gateway is compatible with multiple PLC protocols and data acquisition capabilities, including Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneider, Delta, and Inovance, enabling automated and remote rapid configuration.

3. Diverse Communication: The gateway supports various communication methods, including 5G, 4G, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet, for uploading data to cloud platforms or upper computer systems, ensuring real-time data transmission and sharing.

4. Network Disconnection Protection: The gateway supports dual WAN port settings, automatically switching to another network in case of a network disconnection.

    Data is temporarily stored locally and continues to be transmitted once the network is restored.

5. Fault Alarms: Through edge intelligent algorithms, data is cleansed, filtered, or subjected to formula calculations.

    When corresponding data triggers an alarm, notifications are sent via WeChat, SMS, or email.

6. Remote Operation and Maintenance: The gateway allows for remote configuration and program updates, as well as remote PLC programming, debugging, and program uploading and downloading operations through the gateway, enhancing work efficiency.