Mr. Quick, what exactly does the edge device do?

ibaM-DAQ helps to detect wear and anomalies at an early stage when monitoring cyclical processes and rotating machines. This monitoring is based on measurement data already available in the control systems and drives; additional sensors are generally not required. For interactive analysis of the data, it is possible to drill down the characteristic values back to the raw data. The device can also act as a gateway between sensors and the cloud.

And ibaInCycle - what is it?

ibaInCycleis a software for online monitoring of cyclically repeating, rotating and quasi-cyclical processes. This allows process deviations to be detected during production and a forecast of quality characteristics to be made. Timely measures can thus prevent damage and unplanned machine or system failures and ensure product quality. The software is used to cut out an area to be monitored from a signal - such as motor current, pressure, rolling force or temperature - and resample it in order to achieve comparability. This signal behavior is then compared with a reference curve and various characteristic values are calculated with regard to the deviation. The characteristic values can then be checked for limit values. A warning or alarm is issued if a characteristic value exceeds the limit.

What are typical applications?

We are thinking, for example, of monitoring saw blade wear, motors and gears or crane movements such as traveling on the crane runway or lifting workpieces.

What role do neural networks play in process monitoring?

Neural networks can also be used to monitor and optimize processes, machines and systems: Process behavior is learned based on historical data and the model is saved in ONNX format - for Open Neural Network Exchange Format. In the monitoring phase, the recorded measured values are checked in real time with the model in the time domain or the frequency domain. This allows anomalies in the process to be detected at an early stage.

And the gateway function of the edge device? How does the connection or communication take place?

The ibaM-DAQ edge device has excellent connectivity, both for the connection to the process and for the connection to databases, message brokers and cloud systems. With interfaces to these third-party systems, the recorded measured values can be streamed live to higher-level systems. This includes systems such as SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAP HANA, InfluxDB, MQTT, Amazon Web Services, Apache Kafka, Microsoft Azure and OPC UA.

In July of this year, the business activities of Hainzl Industriesysteme in the field of condition monitoring were taken over. To what extent does this play a role in ibaM-DAQ?

The takeover of Hainzl's condition monitoring division followed many years of successful collaboration. In the cooperation between the two companies, which has existed since 2013, Hainzl supplied the corresponding software for the joint condition monitoring solution and iba supplied the hardware. The ibaMAQ system had already been designed before the takeover as a successor product to the current iba modular system - and therefore also as a successor product for the condition monitoring hardware. With the takeover of Hainzl's condition monitoring division, the entire CM system - consisting of hardware and software components - is now being developed at iba, the central analysis center for monitoring a complete system as well as the sensor evaluation for the individual units running on the edge device. Our customers thus receive the iba CM system from a single source - and all specialists for hardware, software and application work together at iba.

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