A web-based monitoring application for textile machinery industry

Today, globalization and more stringent requirements push managers to optimize all systems involved in their organizations and in particular the operations processes which have great impact on productivity. In this scenario, concepts as availability and time to repair play a key role for achieving the desired Key Performance Indicators. To this end, the advanced of communication technologies can support practitioners in managing more efficiently production processes using advanced approaches to plant / machine monitoring. Traditionally, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems can support operations activities (mainly production and maintenance) and allow operators to monitor and supervise the entire production process. This paper presents a Web-based solution development for SCADA systems based on Web services. The solution allows operators to constantly monitor operating state and real-time data of machineries in order to prevent machine failures or handle them as soon as possible. At the same time, data and collected and stored in a server in order to extract information and make historical analysis about productivity and efficiency, using analytics approaches. The managerial implications of this approach are quite evident: the traditional monitoring approaches are reactive and aim at receiving information about the state of machines, without anticipate the events or customize the information required. The proposed monitoring systems try to fill this gap providing analytics approaches in order to anticipate failure or diagnostics it when occurs in order to enable the intervention and, for instance, providing also a context awareness information system which can be customized on specific employee.