In modern production lines, each process must adhere strictly to predefined time rhythms to ensure the smoothness and efficiency of the overall production flow, encompassing aspects such as inventory management and quality inspection.

The timing and counting PLC system plays a crucial role in this context. WideIOT offers a solution that integrates with PLCs to achieve data acquisition for timing and counting processes, further enhancing production efficiency, reducing costs, strengthening safety management, and facilitating digital transformation for enterprises. By connecting to PLC controllers, photoelectric sensors, counters, and other devices on-site, WideIOT’s industrial smart gateway can acquire timing and counting data from PLCs and upload it to designated platforms.

This enables real-time monitoring, anomaly handling, and optimization analysis of information such as production volume, production efficiency, and defect rates, allowing timely measures to be taken for management and control to ensure safe and effective production operations.

Functional Characteristics

Data Acquisition: The gateway can acquire data from PLC controllers in real-time, including key parameters and equipment status for timing and counting projects.

This data encompasses quantities, times, switches, and other information on the production line, as well as equipment operational status and fault information. Data Transmission: Acquired data is transmitted to cloud platforms or local servers through the gateway using various methods such as 5G/4G/WIFI/Ethernet, ensuring stable and reliable data transmission that adapts to communication needs under different network environments.

Data Processing: The gateway is equipped with edge computing capabilities, enabling it to process acquired data, including operations such as data cleaning, deduplication, and filtering.

This improves data accuracy and reliability while reducing the computational load and operational costs of servers. Fault Alarming: Upon detecting abnormal data, the system automatically sends notifications via WeChat, SMS, email, etc., while control instructions can be fed back in real-time to the PLC controller, enabling data-based real-time control decisions to ensure the stability and continuity of the production process.

Remote Maintenance: The system allows for flexible adjustment of PLC control program configurations according to system requirements, enabling remote programming, debugging, and program uploading/downloading operations. This enhances work efficiency, reduces travel frequency, and minimizes human resource burdens and operational costs.