Problem:
This facility has a large control room where many locations around the facility are monitored and controlled for gas flow, exhaust emissions, emergency shutdowns and fire/gas monitoring. Without continually traveling back to the control room, there was no other visible monitoring system.
Solution:
The customer wanted a large LED Display to identify each processing system, and the status of each in a columnar format. The Data Masters Tricolor, 48 x 12, 2.1" Character Matrix, ActiveX control and Ethernet Adapter was selected and installed.
Data Source:
The existing control room system provided the data to an Excel spreadsheet. This sheet, along with ActiveX control, provided communications to the board via TCP/IP.
ROI:
Savings were calculated to be over $5,000/week based on improved efficiencies and savings through allowing other departments accessibility to performance data. Payback for the displays was less than 4 weeks.