What?
Use the Alerts app to drive actions towards being a more proactive data driven business.
How?
Identify an issue that happened. Explore early indicators of the issue during which you oculdn've responded. Implement an alert based onthe signal to trigger the proactive response should the event occur again.
Why?
Data is continuously flowing into the Braincube IoT platform which allows the configuration of automatic process monitoring tools to make faster and more proactive decisions. Since the Braincube platform sits on a layer on top of the PLC, automation and controls personnel and skills are not needed to test and implement different alert based action plans.
Example: Energy consumption study
KPI monitoring
For our example plant, we need to control scrap index (it could be quality, emissions, etc) to a maximum acceptable limit of 10% of total production. Usually, we analyze this KPI at the end of production where the result is already locked in.
Instead, what if we were told during production that this KPI is approaching the upper limit (eg, the KPI is approaching 9% and the maximum acceptable is 10%)? We can take some action to prevent this KPI from exceeding the 10% limit.
By implementing an alert when scrap reaches 9%, users (or a group of people) will be emailed that the limit is approaching to have the opporutnity to address the issue before final production results reach 10%.
- Using Moving Average : Create a calculated variable in Braincube to record the moving average value of the last 2 hours of their quality indicator. The value of this indicator could never go below 4.0. Thus, the team created an alert to be warned when this moving average indicator drops below 4.5, allowing them time to analyze the process and take action to reverse the downward trend. Troubleshooting was done using dashboards and graphs.
Discovering potential equipment failures
Maintenance personnel often use alerts on equipment variables such as power draw to identify whether the equipment in question has anomalous behavior.
Graph with the calculated variable of the quality indicator with the moving average of the last two hours
Another interesting use case of using a moving average of a variable was made by a client to generate an alert on an emission variable, given that there are several environmental regulations that need to be strictly followed in its plant.
TIP #1
In order to add someone to the subscription of an alert, they must first be added by a customer Admin as a Braincube user.
More Information
This article is about using alerts. For additional information on this topic, access the page dedicated to alerts in support.