Key Pain Points:

• Cylinders may suffer damage or air leakage after long-term high-frequency operation, causing:
  – Inaccurate packaging quantity (overfill or underfill)
  – Large amounts of defective products requiring rework
  – Production interruptions and material waste
• Traditional maintenance methods cannot predict faults in advance and only perform repairs after failures occur, resulting in unguaranteed production line OEE.

Festo AX Solution:

• Platform Deployment: Seamlessly integrates the Festo AX system into the company’s global cloud platform.
• Application Empowerment: Uses MIP (Motion Insights Pneumatic) to monitor and analyze the real-time operating status of the 16 cylinders.
• Global Sharing: Analysis results and data are shared in real time across global subsidiaries’ platforms, facilitating unified viewing and management by global teams.

Highlights and Achievements:

• Accurate Early Warnings: The system successfully issued 3 alarms during operation, indicating abnormalities in specific cylinders.
• Verified Effectiveness: Returned the alerted cylinders to the lab for inspection, fully validating the AX system’s predictions:
  – 1 cylinder was damaged
  – 2 cylinders had air leakage problems
• Demonstrated Value: Early warnings prevented large-scale rework and production stoppages caused by packaging errors, proving the great value of predictive maintenance.
• Efficient Standardization: Adopted the ready-to-use MIP standard app, greatly reducing deployment difficulty and time, enabling rapid empowerment.
• Global Collaboration: Cloud-based architecture enables global sharing and collaborative management of monitoring results, doubling management efficiency.

Festo AX leverages intelligent machine data analysis to provide a full-process predictive solution that ensures safe, controllable, and maximized production efficiency while guaranteeing clean production and zero-defect quality.

We offer diversified solutions for predictive maintenance, quality assessment, and energy optimization for key food packaging processes including:

• Vertical packaging machines: Using Festo AX MIP to monitor horizontal sealing and cutting cylinders, preventing poor sealing or leaks
• Palletizers: Monitoring grippers, lifting, rotating cylinders, and vacuum generators to avoid dropping and misaligned stacking
• Forming, filling, and cartoning machines: Preventing blockages or material shortages before they occur
• Cigar machines: Monitoring key pneumatic actuators to avoid jamming and unexpected line stoppages
• Labeling machines: Combined with Festo MSE6-C2M energy-saving air supply units to continuously monitor pressure and air consumption, identifying optimal pressure levels and detecting leaks

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