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| These are some sample screen shots from some of the real-time manufacturing automation software projects we have undertaken. There's no way to show from pictures such as these all the machine interfacing and control functions that go on behind the scenes, but you get some idea. With regards to style, we're happy to adapt to any look-and-feel that the customer desires. In most of these cases, I was left a lot of discretion in layout, and my preferences are for a minimum of distracting animation, instead keeping layouts fairly clean, with status indications as appropriate. |
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| This is the main real-time screen for a manufacturing supervisor console. The program acts as a data-driven "traffic cop" for a continuous manufacturing line of custom small-piece orders. It passes data to, and synchronizes the operation of, an Allen Bradley PLC, two to three mills (dynamically passing CNC files over an isolated Ethernet link), and a laser engraving station operated through a real time Windows remote automation interface. |
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| This is a fairly simple graph, but shows the look of the Gigasoft ProEssentials graph library that we use primarily for graphical presentation. It is extremely fast when programmed properly, will handle enormous quantities of data points, and allows for great flexibility in 2D and 3D graph presentation. |
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| This is another data-driven automation interface. It employs a barcode scanner which triggers a real-time database retrieval of order-specific data. The data can be manipulated quickly in a number of ways, applied to a laser graphic layout file of the operator's choosing, and sent to a production machine for processing. |
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| This is a real time productivity tracking application, employed throughout dozens of work cells at a manufacturing facility. It is displayed on large monitors in each work cell. |
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| One of the requirements for this application was that the productivity target calculations be specific to each 15 minute time interval, with the operators having the ability to quick reset and adjust each target based upon a number of dynamic work cell factors. Context-sensitive popup screens such as this one were used to allow for easy access to the necessary configuration tables, while keeping the main screen free of operator pushbuttons. |
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