The COATIFY performance dashboard offers detailed, clearly structured and attractively presented reports for each integrated system. Current characteristic values – such as coating time, system status, number of coated parts or conveyor section – can be displayed and contrasted with characteristic values from comparative periods
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In 2019, Wagner successfully launched the COATIFY web-based information and management platform, which is used for the intelligent visualisation of coating systems. The IoT platform can be accessed via PC, tablet or smartphone, and enables secure access to production data from anywhere in the world, at any time. Additional functions, and a special entry-level version called COATIFY.light, are now available.
COATIFY provides clearly visualised key figures, live productivity monitoring, information on the exchange of spare parts, operating instructions with a spare parts list, and an interface to Wagner’s remote maintenance service.
The system’s performance monitoring – including data on machine status, number of coated parts per minute, coating times, and much more – is presented in the form of clear diagrams
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The controls and sensors in the Wagner products provide the raw data, which is transmitted to COATIFY via a secure connection. The information enables reliable process control, short response times and anticipatory service measures. Everyone involved in the production process benefits from the high level of transparency provided by the COATIFY platform – whether operator, production manager, service employee, quality or process manager. System availability is increased, and productivity and quality are enhanced.
In addition to many other Wagner powder-coating systems, the SuperCenter powder centre and the ELine variant, which has the maximum control scope of this coating line, are now COATIFY READY – they can be connected to the platform. Soon, the entry-level variant of the E-Line and the SprayPackE automatic control unit will also be compatible with COATIFY. Plans are currently under way to also visualise liquid-coating systems in the future.
The platform has been enriched by several functions. The user can trace details of past jobs, including the used recipe, coating material and other parameters. Recording and tracing of application data of the EPG control units used, – for instance, the setting of the air or high voltage – is now also possible.
These new functions mean that certain parameter settings can be traced retrospectively. The production manager or quality manager, for example, thus receives even more valuable information on how quality can be optimised in future coating jobs.
Furthermore, one of the new features is that, in addition to automatic coating, the proportion of manual coating in the production process can also be displayed. In the Performance Dashboard, the data is no longer only displayed per day, but also per shift. The charts update automatically at regular intervals. This means that the most up-to-date data is always displayed without having to retrieve the status manually.
The user can now also choose between two COATIFY packages. In addition to the comprehensive complete package, which offers continuous data provision, the new version, COATIFY.light, is available as an attractively priced, entry-level package, with flexible billing models.
It has a reduced range of functions and displays all data from the last 365 days, retrospectively. Depending on requirements, companies can start with the lower-priced basic version and have it expanded accordingly as soon as the demands on their own production monitoring increase.
