Andon system for Power Cables Factory

The andon system was developed and implemented by Avani at Power Cable Factory in Bac Ninh province, which was help customer manage centralize and improve operation efficiency of the machinery.

The manufacturing system in the Factory includes more than 80 specialized machines. Each machine has outputs with warning lights (Green, Yellow, Red) showing the operating status. These machines operating independently and separately. Customers want build a system can connect the whole machine to be able to manage, monitor centralized. Beside, operational data are collected can be used to calculate performance metrics, downtime to improvement effective of maintenance and decision support.

The Avani’s solution consists of the following components:

• The terminal equipment are attached to every machine, collect signals of operating status from tower lights.
• All of terminal equipment are connect together, transmit the signal to the Converter. The converter will receive the signal, converting it into a signal transmitted to the server.
• Andon software collects information, stores them for reporting analysis
• Smart TVs screen is hung in the main lobby and Maintenance department. Screen show operation status as real layout of machinery in real time.

Upon completion of the deployment, the system performs real-time centralized monitoring, which alerts and responds to problems, reduces downtime and improves maintenance efficiency. The system is stable, automatic create report by date, week, month, calculates the machine operating KPIs (such as MTBF, MTTR), create visual charts, effective support for the performance evaluation, report data is instant available for meetings and manufacturing improvement solutions.

The system was completed within 4 weeks from the beginning of the contract, with cost of each machine only 4 million dong , improving management efficiency, improving operational efficiency and improving maintenance of the machinery.