Wheelabrator Releases 4th Digital Tool to Help Machines Run Smoothly

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Present at the launch of the Green Castings were Kamal Bali, President & Managing Director, Volvo Group in India; Marc Delobelle, Head of Fossil-free Materials Purchasing, Volvo Group, France; Girish DM, Head of India Purchasing & Group Truck Purchasing, Volvo Group, India; Sriram Viji, Managing Director, Brakes India; along with Parasuraman Ramachandran, Founding Chairman Green Products & Services Council, CII Godrej GBC, and Devendra Jain, President, Institute of Indian Foundrymen.” ■

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Wheelabrator has launched a new digital tool that tracks and displays the overall effectiveness of a shot-blast machine in its wider production context.

It enables operators to identify issues and bottlenecks that cause their blast machines to run below optimum, with a view to continuously perfect production and save time, money and resources.

The new tool is particularly useful in highly integrated settings with inline shot-blast machines (i.e. advanced moulding lines), where all parts of the line have to be in tune with one another to achieve maximum performance and efficiency.

The tool, called “Machine Effectiveness”, was developed in conjunction with our Digital Lab on the group’s equipmentagnostic IIoT platform, Monitizer.

It is the fourth digital tool to be launched by Wheelabrator, all designed to tackle the biggest challenges and cost drivers of running shot-blast equipment.

Heinrich Dropmann, Senior Vice President Global Wheel at Wheelabrator explains: “Most blast machine operators currently have no easy way of tracking their machine’s operating mode. They don’t have an overview of periods of downtime or idle time and their causes, whether it’s faults, delays at the point of loading/unloading, maintenance or breaks.

That means they can’t compare the efficiency of different product runs or shifts, or pinpoint where something’s not running

维尔贝莱特推出了一款新的数字工具，可以在更广泛的生 产环境中跟踪和显示抛丸机的整体效率。 它可以使操作员能够识别导致抛丸机运行低于最佳状态 的问题和瓶颈，从而不断完善生产，节省时间、资金和资源。 这款新工具与在线抛丸机（既有造型线）高度集成的环境 中特别有用，在这种环境中，生产线的所有部分必须相互协调， 以实现最大的性能和效率。 这款工具名为“Machine Effectiveness”，是与我们的 Digital Lab，在集团不受设备限制的IIoT平台Monitizer上共 同开发。 这是维尔贝莱特推出的第四款数字工具，旨在解决运行抛 丸设备的最大挑战和成本驱动因素。 维尔贝莱特全球抛丸高级副总裁Heinrich Dropmann解释道：“目前，大多数抛丸机操作员没有简 单的方法来跟踪设备的运行模式。他们无法了解停机时间 或闲置时间及其原因，无论是故障、上下料点延迟、维护 还是中断。 这意味着他们无法比较不同产品运行或班次的效率，也无 法查明哪里运行不畅以及原因。我们的新工具使他们能够即时