ATS: Illuminate Manufacturing Intelligence
February 28, 2025
Illuminate Manufacturing Intelligence by ATS Provides Simplified Solutions
Sustain manufacturing system performance with data-driven decisions.
Illuminate Manufacturing Intelligence is a production performance monitoring system that simplifies the collection and analysis of data from automated manufacturing systems. With Illuminate software installed, your operations and maintenance personnel can quickly understand what is going on and prioritize actions.
ATS machines are built for serviceability and equipped with Illuminate software to accelerate ramp-up. Once steady-state, production operations are achieved, Illuminate software delivers data-driven insights to uncover opportunities for improvement, leading to significant gains in operational efficiency.
Unlock the Potential of Your Automated Manufacturing Systems
Data is the lifeblood of industrial automation. Data-driven insights enable equipment operators
and technicians to uncover opportunities for improvement and reduce risk, leading to significant
gains in operational efficiency such as:
- Real-time monitoring of machine health and production performance.
- Early detection of faults so that corrective action can be taken, thereby reducing
frequency of unplanned downtime events. - Identifying opportunities to improve production processes and eliminate waste.
- Pinpointing the root cause of infrequent faults that are difficult to observe.
Scalable System Architecture
Illuminate Manufacturing Intelligence software has a flexible, scalable architecture that often
starts as a local machine performance analysis tool, and then is extended across the plant floor
for system-wide operational visibility and insight. This powerful solution integrates with factory
automation equipment through a variety of industry standard protocols.
Empower Your Operations Team
Plant Manager
Monitor Energy per Part to Calculate Carbon Footprint: For ATS machines equipped with electrical and pneumatic metering and the Illuminate Energy and Emissions Add-on Module delivers energy and carbon footprint summaries with total and per part energy and CO2 equivalent consumption information.
Maintenance
Isolate Equipment Behavior Anomalies: The Illuminate Predictive Maintenance Add-on Module analyzes device cycle time data, identifies patterns, and assigns a device level health score to assist in isolating equipment behavior anomalies. Health scoring flags suspect devices exhibiting changes in frequency or performance so repair actions can be taken to address and pre-empt unnecessary downtime.
Engineer
Generate SPC Charts on Demand, Over Any Time Range, for Any Machine: The Illuminate Statistical Process Control (SPC) Add-on Module is a value logging function that tracks specific equipment measurement data, processes statistical calculations including Cp, Cpk, Mean, Minimum, and Maximum values, and then allows for display of variances between carriers or nests.
Operator
React Faster to Production Issues: Plant floor diagram in optional Interactive Line Layout depicts real-time status of every machine or cell in your line and its upstream and downstream effect.
Performance Analysis
The purpose of the Illuminate Performance Analysis Module is to help users diagnose and make OEE better.
Simply put, it’s a problem-solving tool that boils the complexity down into an intuitive very easy to use interface. Illuminate software is essential for ATS machine builders to fine tune the machine before delivery to customers and then it remains with the machine throughout its life.
Once onsite, Performance Analysis provides reports and notifies customer’s operations and maintenance teams so they can respond to issues quickly, unlock hidden performance, and make continuous improvements. Knowing where and why events occur along with successive layers of detail is key to informing decisions. It pinpoints where to focus efforts to reduce downtime, realize OEE gains, maximize line throughput, and improve product quality.
Add-On Modules
- Standard integrated Add-on modules extend the Performance Analysis base module functionality.
Production
- Energy & Emissions: Monitor energy per part to calculate carbon footprint.
- Debug Camera: Event-triggered video capture for automation system troubleshooting.
- Overhead Display: Full-screen at-a-glance views facilitate quick responses.
- Manual Station: Enables operator-based processing to be seamlessly integrated into OEE.
Quality
- Part Traceability: For a serialized complete part history and birth record.
- Statistical Process Control (SPC): Generate SPC charts on demand, over any time range, for any machine.
Maintenance
- Insights: Analytics with actionable intelligence.
- Predictive Maintenance: Assists in isolating equipment behavior anomalies.
