Tracks faults
September 1st 2007 A Welsh automotive component
manufacturer believes an FTR
Faultracker to be the best
investment it has made this year.
The company, which produces
steering assemblies on highly
automated production cells, was
losing tens of thousands of pounds
due to apparently inexplicable
faults in the cell control systems.
An FTR was linked to the
machine to monitor 16 sensor
inputs to the PLC. When a crash
occurred, the FTR was downloaded
to a PC for analysis. This showed
that one sensor 'glitched' when it
should have been quiet. The glitch
was attributed to centrifugal forces
on an indexing table which only
occurred with the machine running
at full speed.
The FTR Faultracker is available
from RS Components and direct
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