Wynndel Box & Lumber Monitors Plant Operations with Wireless PDA's While Reducing Software Costs. |
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CimQuest INGEAR
518 Kimberton Rd
Phoenixville, PA, 19460
USA
Press release date: October 15, 2010
CASE STUDY- FOREST PRODUCTS MANUFACTURER COMBINES WIRELESS PDA-HELD AND DESKTOP APPLICATIONS TO MONITOR PLANT OPERATIONS.
Mike Sluz, Electrical Superintendant for Wynndel Box & Lumber gained far more than originally expected when he purchased INGEAR.
According to Sluz, "Our Company, Wynndel Box & Lumber a specialty wood product manufacturer, faced the original challenge of displaying real time error messages and production data at various workstations around our plant.
Realizing, through a bit of research, that we could use the INGEAR products to help gather data from numerous Allen Bradley PLC's in our plant, we created various programs that use the INGEAR.NET.ABLINK, NET.LOGIXCF and NET.LOGIX. INGEAR was used to replace the need to purchase and install multiple RSLinx licenses at greater than $1100.00 per workstation."
Wynndel found that after using the INGEAR products to create real time error message and production displays on operator workstations (as well supervisory workstations) they also found other uses for the INGEAR product.
Sluz reported, "We use a wireless handheld iPaq 110 to remotely gather data for real time quality control checks from any location on our plant site. Next we intend to build another wireless handheld to alert maintenance personal about problems or potential problems by displaying machine center errors and data, such as temperature, vibration, tank levels, voltage monitor, and current levels."
Wynndel staff has found the INGEAR product line to be very useful but its flexibility has shown that it has many uses that were not anticipated.
"With INGEAR products we can write programs to utilize any information or modify data from any PLC," enthused Sluz.
ABOUT WYNNDEL BOX AND LIMBER
Wynndel Box & Lumber has been producing value added lumber products for 95 years. The facility is situated in some of the most productive forest land in British Columbia's Interior.
We are a mixed species mill cutting primarily Lodge Pole Pine, and Engleman Spruce, with some Douglas Fir and Western Larch.
Our principle product line of ESLP S4S eased edge boards are produced through an industry leading finish line, headed by a state of the art 2008, 1000fpm LMC Moulder. Other products include paneling (in a variety of different patterns, with endmatching available), flooring, siding, S1S2E rough sawn facia products, as well as fir boards and lamstock.
Contact us
CimQuest INGEAR
518 Kimberton Rd Ste 325
Phoenixville, PA 19460
www.ingeardrivers.com
Toll Free: 1.866.935.7979
Telephone: 1.610.935.8282
Fax: 1.610.935.1902
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