By Nanovac AB
AUTOMATION DRIVES our solutions and ensures safe, deterministic and robust performance. All our system solutions are based on PLC (programmable logic controllers). This ensures reliable and robust performance, and the ability to add of modify functionality over the lifetime of your equipment. Another benefit of using PLCs is that the code developed is IEC 1131-3 com-pliant, which ensures performance and reliability and easy of transfer for the customer cases where we also supply the source code for our projects. We also have a number of variations on how the GUI (graphical user interface). We have touch screen solutions, that allows you to operate the system from a single touch screen interface. We also have industrial PC options where the GUI runs on an industrial PC with the latest approved Windows version. This allows for virtually unlimited recipe space storage, as well as data logging capabilities. All of our recipe/cycle and data logging solutions are ANSI ISA 88 compliant, ensuring traceability throughout the lifetime of your sys-tem. In addition to logging data during the actual cycle runs (cam-paigns) our software suite also logs key parameters when idle. The software also monitors key parameters and triggers maintenance events for the service personnel ensuring that all the system crit-ical components are maintained according to the recommended intervals. Ease of use and a clear visible graphical user interface ensures that the operators are always aware about the current status of the system, and what the actual operating parameters are. Any values that are out of compliance or not within a set operational window will be highlighted on the screen to alert the operator. Detailed log files are also generated for not only the cycle parameters but also for all key events taking place on the system, including valve open/ closures, pump contactors and circuit breaker statuses as well as other machine relevant information. All of our systems are delivered with our award winning remote support capability (NVsEwon). This feature enables us and our techsupport team to monitor and diagnose systems remotely. We can also deploy software upgrades (including instrumentation firm-ware) remotely. The remote connection capabilities can also be used by the end-user, allowing remote access capabilities for free during the warranty period. Benefits with remote diagnostic and con-nection capabilities are not limited to support issues, but we often also perform housekeeping tasks as a service to our end-users during the warran-ty period. The systems are also set up (provided the end-user allows it) to alert our service organisation if a parameter is out of specification, or a component is not performing as expected. In our support centre, the system will be highlighted on an interactive map, indicat-ing that the system is having some issue. And, this may not just be ”hard down” issues, but could also be if a component or subsystem is operating outside of a designated operational window. There are several benefits from this, as uptime and availability of the chamber is increased, and scheduled downtime can be planned more accurately, further increasing the availability of your chamber. In addition to this, preventive maintenance activities are typically significantly less ex-pensive than a hard, unplanned failure. Finally, our user interfaces adhere to the strictest standards in regard with user friendliness and operational ergonomics. We also typically modify the GUI to meet specific customer requirements. This is a unique approach, as we will tailor the interface of your system, to meet your exact requirements. All customers and users have different key pa-rameters, or product of key parameters that they want displayed or visual-ised on the user inter-face. We design it to meet your requirements. We also supply all of our systems with our EquTrack tracking system. This keeps track of service intervals of selected OEM components on your sys-tem, to reduce down time and ensure reliable opera-tion. This can include (not limited to) vacuum pumps, gauges, mass flow control-lers, valves etc. The service intervals are adaptable, so that they are tied into the physical actual use, rather than being based on time. All to make your system more available, and reduce cost of ownership.
