Several years ago, a long-established plant for a popular brand of baked goods needed to track the activity of their operations by logging data from their production lines.
The project engineer chose the DataHub OPC Logger because it gave his team a way to log data from their OPC servers to the company's existing databases, into tables that they used to generate reports.
Recognizing the value of real-time data now being made so available, management asked the engineering team to provide better access to their system from the bakery offices and from various locations around the plant, to monitor production and carry out control tasks supervisory functions such as uploading recipe files or changing cooking times.
They found it easy to create the screens they needed in DataHub WebView, and with its built-in web server, they were able to add it to their existing system without making any changes on either the OT or IT side.
More recently, the team has also added the feature DataHub Email/SMS, so operators and managers can receive notifications from the system via e-mail.