Manufacturing Cell Control

SCADAware engineered a sophisticated cell control system for a heavy equipment manufacturer. The Cell controller and each machine's local control is accomplished with Steeplechase VLC, PC based control software. Each machine control VLC computer communicates with the Cell Control VLC computer via Berkley Socket routines on an Ethernet below the firewall (outside of Windows). Motion control is with MEI cards in the VLC computer. This Cell has the ability to produce axles from 11 inches long to 15 feet long and ¾ inch in diameter to 6 inches in diameter. Materials are run in this Cell from a recipe interface and Cell data is stored in an Oracle database for historical analysis.