MICRO SERVICES GROUP, INC

EQUIPMENT MONITORING SYSTEMS

Schlafhorst Autocoro Central Monitor

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Micro Services Group's "OESMon for Schlafhorst" monitors Schlafhorst Autocoro 240, 288, and 312 OES spinning frames and continuously accumulates all of the production data from each frame and organizes it into convenient and easily usable reports, graphs, status screens, and displays to satisfy your plant's information needs.

Additionally, all monitored frames transfer production data, rotors with problems, and piecer settings at the end of each shift. The reporting system collects this data along with the current machine settings and puts it in the proper form for reporting. The system also collects the piecer data and settings for each frame and puts them into the proper form.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE: The basic system components are a Unix-based Gateway CIG computer running Micro Services Group Texnet interface software plus our reporting system computer in a single cabinet. The Texnet boards for the ACO 288 and 312 frames can be purchased from Micro Services Group or Schlafhorst.

Our fileserver computer runs Windows 2000 with multi threading capability. This computer has mirrored hard drives and battery backup for increased reliability. This data collection system also drives any optional Windows color floor terminals. Status reporting is available on the production floor and full system reporting is available on our Ethernet network.

The status display includes: frame number, frame efficiency, doffs, yarn breaks, piecings, percent miss piecings, total red lights, down rotors, and spinning efficiency. It also has has: low efficiency rotors, high red lights, high rotor stops, yarn breaks, long and short doffs listed by frame, side, section, and rotor.

REPORTS AVAILABLE: The daily reports are for shift-based data. The weekly reports can cover the current week, 1st, 2nd, 3rd previous weeks or for any date range. Each report can be generated by one of several categories including operator, style, fixer, supervisor, and others. Assignments may be made by entire frames or by individual rotors. A very flexible graphing package is included.

The daily and weekly reports are for operator, frame data, frame data per thousand rotor hours, detail frame data per rotor, low efficiency rotors pay, and production, exceptional rotors, and frame data by sections.

Each of the daily or weekly reports has the capability to have the output directed to either a printer, a Comma Separated Variable file (CSV), Excel, or Word file. The CSV files may be easily imported into a spreadsheet or other statistical analysis programs.

SYSTEM OPTIONS: Color Floor Displays - Floor displays may be connected to the reporting system and each is configured to display current status information.

Networked PC attachment - Any existing Windows 95 or later with at least a Pentium II 300 with at least 64M of RAM may be networked to the system. Each PC will need to have a network card and network software installed that will allow it to logon to the main computer and to run the reporting software.

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