This presentation explores how the latest conveyor and sortation hardware and control systems are being designed to anticipate or be alerted to problems quickly, maximize MTBF and uptime, and minimize MTTR. We will also examine the benefits of real time and historical data monitoring and visualization to reduce downtime, decrease maintenance and increase operational efficiency and throughput.

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Presented by:
Nathan Slider - Schneider Electric
Software Solutions Specialist
How Warehouse and
Distribution Systems
(Conveyor systems)
are being designed
for Maintenance

2. Maintenance Challenges for
Material Handling Systems
• Desire to achieve maintenance & energy savings
• Reduce system downtime – while increasing reliability
• Multiple equipment vendors with independent
proprietary software
• No means of reporting on the total
facility system performance
• No means of monitoring operations
ability to maximize the output
of the material handling solution

3. Principles of
Maintenance &
Operational Practices
– Detection: Using preventive and
predictive technologies to inspect,
detect and then correct small defects
before they can become costly repairs
– Restoration: Restoring equipment to optimal conditions
– Prevention: Preventing small defects from becoming
major problems by correcting them before they become
costly repairs

4. Take a Strategic Approach to
Operations and Maintenance
Focus on minimizing your risk and
reducing downtime:
• identifying potential areas of risk and ensuring
that you have the necessary skills and resources
to quickly address any potential events as they
occur
• includes developing a complete picture of all your
installed automation equipment at the machine
component level

5. Maintenance Methodology
Steps to optimum performance
• Visualization
• Reporting / Analyze data
• Provide real time alerts
• Energy Management Actions used by Maintenance
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6. Visualization
A complete Monitoring and Visualization Solution (MVS)
provides distribution centers with real-time visibility to the
plant floor
You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure.
View systems
real-time such as
conveyor status,
lane capacity,
alarm faults,
energy data, etc.).

7. Visualization (Click Thru)
Maintenance & Operations have drill-down
data visibility with intuitive navigation

8. Reporting / Analyze data
MVS also provides a very powerful set of reporting tools to help
the maintenance staff analyze data
Reports / Dashboard: Motor Status, Conveyor
Availability, Energy, Recirculation Analysis, etc.

9. Reporting /Analyze data (Click Thru)
Total Downtime Total Number of
Faults
E-Stop
Counter
Jam
Counter

10. Provide Real-Time Alerts to
Maintenance StaffData Alerts & Alarms on the plant
floor equipment (e.g. motor
statuses, jams, missing pins, etc.) Equipment Filter
Alarms
Correlated with
Video Feed
PTZ cameras to Pan Tilt Zoom to the
exact location of the alarm fault
(example: fire door jammed with boxes
or jam due to a mechanical

11. Energy Management Visibility
helps Maintenance Prioritize
Visibility to the power quality and consumption of
the incoming power.
Motor Faults due to Power Quality Occurrence /
Direction of Power Fault (Upstream / Downstream)
Downtime Reporting resulting from PQ Issues.

12. All of this MHS Management Data is available at your
fingertips with Mobility Solutions!

13. For More Information:
Speaker email: Nathan.Slider@Schneider-Electric.com
Web site: www.schneider-electric.com