Advancing Manufacturing Efficiency through Real-time Production Monitoring and Control Systems

The advantages of both real-time production monitoring and control systems in enhancing the advancement of manufacturing efficiency cannot be overlooked. Manufacturing industries need to meet customers’ demand while still maximizing their profits via avoiding emergency shutdown of plants during production. Nonetheless, quality products with high purity level should be supplied uninterruptedly without breakage of supply chain. In recent times, failure of many of manufacturing industries to deliver their products to end users have been cited and reported. This was due to inadequate scheduling which was not being monitored via real-time production and control systems. There is need to tackle this problem which calls for the adoption of real-time production monitoring and control systems. In this paper, the concepts behind the use of real-time production monitoring and control systems were discussed. Consideration was given to how real-time production monitoring can be integrated in manufacturing. The features of real-time control systems were discussed alongside with their industrial applications in various disciplines of Engineering. Data analysis and prognostics, data collection, visualization module and data storage were identified as the relevant sequential steps in real time production monitoring in advancing manufacturing efficiency. In conclusion, the significance and importance of real-time production monitoring and control systems in advancing manufacturing efficiency have been revealed and discussed in this paper.