With the obvious trend of population aging and the innovation and development of the medical and pharmaceutical industry, it can be expected that the demand for pharmaceutical products in China will continue to grow rapidly, and it is estimated that the industry scale will reach 2.15 trillion yuan by 2024. The huge market size also means more fierce market competition, and the uncertainty has been further exacerbated by the epidemic in recent years. The pharmaceutical industry is accelerating the reshuffle.
Following the "13th Five-Year Plan" for the development of the pharmaceutical industry, which clearly listed intelligent manufacturing as the main goal, the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the pharmaceutical industry once again emphasized the importance of intelligent manufacturing - "systematic improvement of manufacturing level." The quality management of the whole life cycle of drugs and medical devices has been strengthened, the level of green, digital and intelligent development of enterprises has been significantly improved, the level of safety technology and management has been effectively improved, and the ability of production safety risk management and control has been significantly enhanced", which shows that intelligent manufacturing and digital manufacturing have been an unstoppable trend in the pharmaceutical industry and medical industry.
Intelligent manufacturing and intelligent transformation are indispensable to the drive of data, and data is the foundation for digitalization, networking and intelligence. If the massive data of the underlying sensors can be effectively collected and modeled and analyzed through big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, data-driven scientific decision-making and intelligent applications can be accelerated.
Different stages of smart manufacturing:
Computational, connected, visible, transparent, predictive, adaptive
Introduction to IO-Link
IO-Link is a fieldbus-independent, open, point-to-point communication interface for the lowest level of industrial control devices (e.g. simple sensors/actuators) that can be integrated into almost any fieldbus or automation system.
As shown in the figure below, a complete IO-Link system typically consists of multiple IO-Link devices (including IO-Link sensors, IO-Link hubs, and standard I/O sensors, etc.), which are connected to an IO-Link master (e.g. SIG200) via standard cables.
Compared with conventional industrial automation control systems, IO-Link systems offer the following advantages:
Digital transmission has less accuracy loss than analog signals and has stronger anti-interference ability.
Simplified wiring, with standard cable connections, wiring time and wiring errors are greatly reduced.
Easy to replace, if the IO-Link sensor in the system is damaged, replace the same sensor and the parameters will be automatically configured to the new sensor.
Remote configuration: IO-Link sensors can be accessed directly via the IO-Link master for remote parameter configuration.
For monitoring and preventive maintenance, the operating parameters and diagnostic data of the sensors can be transmitted directly to the IO-Link master and to the PLC via the fieldbus, and the internal operating status can be visualized in real time.
With the expansion of intelligent functions, the master can directly access the internal data of the IO-Link device, and the IO-Link sensor can output more signals (e.g. distance value, light intensity value, running quality, etc.) to realize more potential functions.
Integrated management software for IO-Link devices on a PC
Although IO-Link-based sensors have many of the above advantages, it is a challenge for managers to debug, configure and monitor IO-Link sensors when using PLCs, PLC systems and IO-Link masters of different series or manufacturers in the field where a large number of IO-Link devices are used. The customer needed a simpler, more accessible system that would make site management more transparent.
Based on these needs and pain points, FieldEcho, one of SICK's digital solutions, is a software designed for the ease of use and transparency of IO-Link products. Regardless of the PLC system, bus method or IO-Link master, FieldEcho can be used to comprehensively monitor and configure all IO-Link devices in the field.
The FieldEcho installed on a PC communicates with a PLC in the same network environment. You can access the FieldEcho via the web and set it up. Parameters and status of any number of IO-Link devices can be monitored without downtime or PLC programming. Through the dashboard of FieldEcho, you can customize the parameters of monitoring parameters and outliers, and the configured parameters can be exported for backup. The monitored data can be integrated in the cloud via REST API for remote networking.
For customers, using FieldEcho can:
Quickly obtain a variety of data of IO-Link devices anytime and anywhere, strengthen remote monitoring and predictive maintenance capabilities, and reduce maintenance costs.
Quickly realize IO-Link device interaction, and allow third-party tools to obtain IO-Link device data through REST APIs, realize data conduction, and accelerate the digital twin generation of application sinking and edge layer devices.
Shorten the on-site construction and commissioning time, and simplify the on-site wiring.
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