Data Automation in industry has the primary mission of providing reliable & efficient data highway from field automation systems to the business. Higher efficiency can be achieved through fit-for-purpose architecture design & proper selection of available technology. Reliability can most effectively be managed by continuously measuring it against determined parameters, and therefore requires data produced by well-structured failure reporting mechanisms.
AFRAS records and provides such failure data as well as the reporting system. All automation failures, for example, failure of PLC, DCS, Data Acquisition Server (OPC and IO Server), Human Machine Interface (HMI), Real-time Database, Web Portal, etc, can be reported by AFRAS.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Successful AFRAS implementation will provide:

• Easy and timely collection of accurate failure data from the field in standardized and compatible data structures.
• Total elimination of complicated and redundant paper-based data records throughout the failure collection process, thereby avoiding dual reporting.
• Effective data analysis to determine root cause mechanisms and real-time failure trends for fast and accurate decision-making.
• Accurate historical reliability performance for use in determining appropriate corrective actions.
• Provide reports that facilitate and support corrective action decisions by both management and engineering personnel regarding the improvement of designs and field support systems.
• Continued monitoring and testing to ensure that implemented corrective actions either prevent failure recurrence or simplify or reduce maintenance tasks.

REPORTING SYSTEM

In addition to custom reporting capability, AFRAS provides pre-defined reports such as:

• Failure Event – Downtime
• Failure Event – Frequency
• Failure Event – Detail Equipment
• Failure Event – Management Report
• Failure Event – Failure Mode (Pareto)
• Failure Event – Reported & Closed by with sophisticated graphical drill down ability for detailed