Real-World Applications
Company: SYSVRA S.L
Author(s): Álvaro Salcedo and Iván Sánchez
NI Product(s) Used: Labview
Industry: Pharma, Ampoules
Characteristics
Considering the level of demand of the pharmaceutical industry in the production of ampoules, the characteristics of this system are as follows:
- 360º measurement of the different parts of the ampoule.
- Concentricity and length control of the product
- Immediate correction to the process for a better production.
- Immediate eject of the product out of tolerances.
- Real-time data visualization system and image on screen.
- Visualization of graphs and production history.
- Data storage and production reporting.
- Continue inspecting while the system is in configuration mode.
The system can work at a rate of 100 ampoules per minute.
Client Investment
Thanks to the NI software and the work of our engineers, our system, apart form beaing able to be acquired completely, is integrated with third-party hardware already installed. For that reason, the client can obtain a considerable saving in the acquisition of our system and thus minimize the investment. So, if any client has already installed cameras, PC, etc… We take advantage of that hardware, integrating only the software along with all charateristics and benefits.
All this is posible thanks to the great knowledge of the SYSVRA engineers in this sector and their collaborators, who provide the production experience.
Industry 4.0
Betting on progress and wishing to bring the technology to the pharmaceutical industry to improve the performance of production processes, we are linked to the Industry 4.0 concept.
This has been a reason why we have decided to use NI software, due to the versality and easy programming for connectivity between systems.
Therefore, the developed application includes the following connectivity features, where the profitability of the factory will undoubtedly increase considerably:
- Adcquisition of dataat the factory level, storing them in the cloud.
- Consumption Control: electricity, raw material, gas… for a better understanding of costs.
- Knowledge of discarded and produced material every time, to determine the real profitability.
- Work shifts
- Centralizationof factory data to a single control point.
- Creation of production, energy and profitability reports.
- Configurable production alarms, to be able to act quickly against the problems that may arise.
- Real-timevisualization of the status machines.
- Remote accessand creation of work orders from anywhere in the world.
- Total connectivity of machines with different devices such as tablets y mobiles.
Impact
The development of this machine vision system has been a great impact on the improvement in the manufacture of glass ampoules, where the companies demanded a quality control system that would help improve the production. In addition of this, a system that would let them know how to improve their production by collecting data and accessing reports.
Conclusion
