The coating industry is confronted with multiple challenges, including intensified market competition, diversified customer demands, and increasingly stringent environmental regulations.

 Traditional production management modes are no longer sufficient to meet the demands for efficient, precise, and green production. Therefore, the introduction of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to construct a data acquisition and analysis system has become an inevitable path for the transformation and upgrading of coating factories.

Pain Point Analysis

1. Complex Production Processes and Safety Risks: The raw materials and product structures in the coating industry change frequently, and the production process mechanisms are complex.

    Some processes exhibit significant "black box" characteristics, and many areas involve safety risks such as high temperatures, flammability, explosiveness, toxicity, and harmfulness. However, on-site safety monitoring systems are often lacking, leading to undiscovered dangerous incidents and inadequate timely control.

2. Weak Data Acquisition and Management Capabilities: Enterprises have weak capabilities in data acquisition, aggregation, and quality management.

    The coverage of information systems, the networking rate of production equipment, and the numerical control rate of key processes are all low. A data chain covering the entire process, full industrial chain, and full lifecycle has not been established, making it difficult to achieve comprehensive digital management and upgrade optimization.

3. Inefficient Energy and Environmental Management: The粗放 (extensive) management mode of energy leads to issues such as energy waste and high energy costs that cannot be controlled and optimized.

    Meanwhile, the lack of environmental monitoring means easily results in pollution exceeding standards and excessive emissions, constraining the enterprise's green and energy-efficient production.

Solution

In response, Wutongbolian provides a comprehensive and reliable IoT solution for the work environment.

 The Wutongbolian Industrial IoT Gateway supports the acquisition of data from devices such as PLCs, sensors, instrumentation, industrial robots, and CNC machine tools. It enables connectivity to cloud platforms or upper computers via 5G/4G/WIFI/Ethernet, providing convenient operational and data support for production management systems, energy optimization systems, environmental monitoring systems, and environmental protection monitoring systems, thereby comprehensively promoting the digital transformation of enterprises.

System Functions

1. Environmental Data Acquisition and Alarming: It enables the acquisition of data such as temperature, humidity, water immersion, and hazardous gas concentrations in various production workshops and warehouses within the factory, and automatically sends alerts through sound, light, SMS, email, WeChat, etc., to notify on-site staff and remote managers.

2. Real-time Energy Monitoring: It allows for real-time online monitoring of water, electricity, gas, and heat within the factory, forming visual data reports and conducting cost accounting, which helps in understanding energy consumption patterns, identifying anomalies, and achieving cost control.

3. Equipment Status and Process Parameter Monitoring: It provides real-time monitoring of the operational status and process parameters of various production equipment, and automatically sends alerts in case of abnormal faults, enabling quick measures to be taken for maintenance and ensuring safe, stable, and reliable production.