Teel Plastics utilizing Kepware connectivity platform as IoT solution
PORTLAND, Maine -- Kepware, a PTC business developing industrial connectivity software, announced today that Teel Plastics, Inc. is utilizing the IoT Gateway for the KEPServerEX platform as its Internet of Things (IoT) solution. KEPServerEX provides Teel Plastics with a single source for industrial data—enabling increased productivity and product quality, reduced human errors and downtime, and a scalable IoT strategy.
Teel Plastics' facility in Baraboo, Wisconsin has 10 manufacturing lines that produce a range of products, each requiring customized recipes deployed at different times throughout the day. These recipes include different material inputs, equipment, heating components, and other variables—all of which represent opportunities for human error, downtime, and product flaws.
Since implementing Kepware's solutions, a Teel Plastics line operator can send a pre-saved recipe with more than 20 parameters from a web interface to the IoT Gateway, which then translates and distributes the instructions to the machines on the line. This enabled Teel Plastics to reduce the risk of human error and decrease setup times by 30%.
"By leveraging the power of the IoT on our shop floor, we've been able to take something that previously required memorization and 30 to 40 clicks and bring it down to a single click of a button," said Owen Gwynne, Senior Programmer, Teel Plastics. "Working with the IoT Gateway is seamless. We are also confident that as our recipes evolve, KEPServerEX will be able to take on anything and everything that we throw at it."
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