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While Festo AX, of course, works with any Festo components, its use of common industry communications and networking technologies such as OPC UA and MQTT means that it can also be integrated with third-party components and machines. For example, linking Festo AX to Festo Smartenance or a third-party maintenance management program can extend Festo AX’s e ectiveness by providing the maintenance department with a tool to help them keep automated equipment performing at optimum energy consumption.

“One of the key strengths of Festo AX is its ability to work with small data sets, meaning that it’s not necessary to have prepared Big Data available,” says Frank Latino, product manager at Festo. “To detect data anomalies, for example, Festo AX relies on unsupervised learning algorithms to fit a use case, such as field maintenance, quality, or energy use applications.”

Festo AX continuously learns about the state of your assets in a process that continuously improves the algorithms.

But these algorithms don’t work in a vacuum. Festo AX keeps the human in the loop by incorporating their feedback into the process to classify anomalies and connect them with recommended courses of action. As a result, the next time the anomaly occurs, the individual receiving the notification will know exactly which system is a ected, what happened, and what to do next.

Festo o ers AX turnkey systems for food and beverage packaging, pneumatic components, welding systems, and machine tools.

Digitalization for productivity

The complex operation of packaging lines now finds an essential analysis and data sharing tool to elevate its productivity levels in digitalization. Through solutions like Share2Act, the IIoT cloud-based platform by Krones, it is possible to supervise from any place and in real time the state of a packaging line and its machines, as well as visualizing key performance indicators (KPIs).

“These tools provide a general view in real time of the current states of your machines and allow you to visualize the production process’s most important KPIs,” explains Martin Braun, digitalization sales director at Krones North America.

“Therefore, they can pinpoint exactly those areas with untapped potential so you can continue growing your packaging line’s productivity.”

Considered as a social network for manufacturing plants in the food and beverage industry due to their intuitive and collaborative use, the tools presented during PACK EXPO International guarantee total transparency of production processes and gather critical information needed to timely implement any needed maintenance actions or to correct issues during the operation of a production line.

The traceability o ered by Krones through their new digitalization tools— which are part of the Krones Digital Factory concept—along with the availability of data for operators, managers, and maintenance personnel, extend from beginning to end of a process. “With these new digitalization tools, we can connect every system with each other and provide a complete tracking report. So if, for example, there is a problem with a bottle, its full trajectory can be traced, from the inflow of raw materials to the delivery of finished products at a warehouse,” Braun says.

With Share2Act, you can also generate what Krones calls plant guides, essentially systems dedicated to providing data to operators in real time that provide them with guidance whenever they need to take special actions. Through a cellphone or an app, operators receive precise information about what they need to do, regardless of where they are.

Real-time visualization of a production line’s performance—with diagrams summarizing the information on the state of the machine, its speed, and the number of units being produced, among other indicators—optimizes running times and increases e ciency. It’s a way of guaranteeing the transparency of processes for the operator and generating information that is essential for the decision-making process regarding line transformations or expansions.

The presence of dedicated sensors along the lines with an approach called Action-Based Monitoring gives these new digitalization services by Krones the ability to guarantee a high availability of equipment and machinery in a line. It also facilitates the assigning of production or maintenance actions to the appropriate area. “Not only are operators using these solutions, we at Krones also use them to o er specific services and recommendations to our clients on how to maintain their equipment e ciency at very high levels,” Braun explains. video of this digitalization solution at pfwgo.to/7863