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| Project Title: |
| Cladtek International – Pipe Barcode Tracking System |
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| Customer: |
Company: |
Cladtek International |
Description: |
CladTek is a group of companies that have evolved
from an established fabrication company, with a portfolio that includes
Cladding and Weld Overlay techniques for vessels, dished heads and all
associated components. Bi-metal lined pipe is a unique product also
manufactured by CladTek. |
Contact: |
Paul Montague (Managing Director) |
Phone No.: |
+61 8 9321 3889 |
Website: |
www.cladtek.com |
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| Customer Requirements: |
| KAPP Engineering was approached by Cladtek International to put
together a system based on their existing Citect SCADA system to track and monitor
pipes with the usage of barcode labels as they are passed through the system. The
tracking/monitoring system needed to be a replacement for their manual paper based
tracking system for the collection of various parameters which are associated to each
pipe at each station (31 Stations in Total). The system was also required to provide
interlocks to existing Allen-Bradley and Koyo PLC's via an Ethernet backbone to ensure
that pipes are sent through stations in a sequenced manner to for QA Purposes. |
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| Solution: |
The barcode scanning system selected for this job was
the Datalogic Dragon Series of Industrial Grade Scanners connected together
via an RS-485 Multi-drop System and interfaced to Citect SCADA via a
Multiplexer. The system comprised of a total of 31 scanning points / stations.
At the start of each job the clients inputted pipe data into the system via CSV
files and Citect then internally associated tracking data at each station (currents,
voltages etc.) after which a CSV file with all data was exported out of the Citect
system on job completion. The operators had the ability to pull up data for any pipe
from within the SCADA interface to view exactly at which point it was in the plant and
how far it had progressed. This proved a very valuable feature for QA Personnel on site.
The Operator interface to the system consisted of a multi-monitor display of six (6)
screens incorporating the barcode tracking, monitoring, trending as well as the display
of Wireless IP Camera feeds at selected locations around the plant.
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