Mobile Apps
Cutting-Edge SaaS for Real-Time Machine Monitoring and Insights in Manufacturing Process
A Fortune 100 corporation was looking to enhance their industrial machinery with real-time monitoring capabilities via an app and dashboard. This allowed to instantly view machine status and issues, broadening the client's offerings and elevating user experience.
Challenge
The company decided to add adaptors that read the data from machine sensors and send it in a decoded format from a CNC module to computers in a local network for monitoring. But the growing global demand for industrial IoT solutions propelled the need to upgrade these adaptors with advanced remote monitoring software. The company partnered with Devvela to build a mobile application, enabling engineers to monitor machining tools from any place in real-time.
Solution
CNC data formats vary. To ensure the uniformity of this data at the output, an adapter encodes it into MTConnect format using a specific XML schema. We made apps capable of recognizing the data in MTConnect.
The apps read the current operational state of the machine and display it with the interface color: green for “Normal”, yellow for “Warning”, and red for “Fault”. Other parameters can also be monitored within the app interfaces.
Managers can create lists of machines and assign them to the operators specifically responsible for them, and operators can filter relevant machines out of the complete list and keep them at hand.
The client also wanted to be able to display the CNC information on a bigger screen as well to showcase how this works at a technology show. For this purpose, Devvela built a web application that can be run on a desktop computer or laptop.
Enabling remote industrial machine monitoring for a Fortune100 manufacturer with a mobile app.
Results
Developing from scratch and working within tight deadlines, we managed to deliver the product on time.
We began the development of the apps in early summer 2018; in September, the client showcased the product at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago.
Operators of the machines equipped with adapters can now check several appliances in a stretch from a smartphone or PC. Time spent for CNC machines monitoring decreased by 20%. Operators get instant notifications if the status of any machine changes, which helps businesses to act timely on potential issues, preventing and reducing downtime.
Today, our client offers CNC monitoring systems that include their adapters and the mobile app built by Devvela.