Industrial workers can now more easily use the data from their equipment to predict production issues and improve processes with their existing automation and control skill set. The new FactoryTalk Analytics LogixAI module, formerly known as Project Sherlock, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect production anomalies and alert workers so they can investigate or intervene, as necessary.
Many existing analytics technologies require deep expertise in both data science and industrial processes. But this add-on module for ControlLogix controllers reduces that burden by doing the job of a data scientist. It fits directly into a control chassis and streams controller data over the backplane to build predictive models. It can continuously monitor a production operation, detecting anomalies against its derived understanding.
“The FactoryTalk Analytics LogixAI module makes predictive analytics more accessible to help more workers make better production decisions,” said Jonathan Wise, product manager, Rockwell Automation. “The module learns your ControlLogix application and tells operators and technicians when things are changing in unexpected ways. This can help them get ahead of product quality issues and protect process integrity.”
For example, the module can help operators spot performance deviations in equipment like mixers that could affect product quality or lead to downtime. It can also be used as a virtual sensor. Instead of workers taking a reading, like the humidity of a packaged food product, the module can analyze variables from line assets like sprayers, dryers and burners to predict a measurement, virtually.
Workers can then be notified of problems by configuring alarms on a human machine interface (HMI) or dashboard. Future features of the module will go further, helping workers focus their problem-solving or automate the optimization of a process.
The FactoryTalk Analytics LogixAI module is the newest addition to the FactoryTalk Analytics portfolio from Rockwell Automation. The portfolio includes FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices, which learns about an automation system’s structure to tell workers about problems with individual devices. The LogixAI module expands on this by learning about an automation system’s application and helping identify anomalies with its overall function.
Both products work individually, but each will benefit the other in future iterations. The FactoryTalk Analytics platform aggregates multiple sources of data, so workers can discover new insights. FactoryTalk Analytics for Devices and the LogixAI module will both be data sources for the platform going forward.
FactoryTalk® Analytics™ LogixAI™ is unlike anything that Rockwell Automation has offered before.
This embedded analytics module empowers customers to easily apply machine learning concepts without having to develop, validate or sustain home-grown machine learning algorithms (and without needing a data scientist). Applying analytics within the controller application is a new fundamental approach to achieving process improvement.
FactoryTalk® Analytics™ platform is a bundled offering that includes FactoryTalk Analytics DataView, FactoryTalk Analytics DataFlowML, and FactoryTalk Analytics Edge.
This platform enables scalable analytics from edge to enterprise and can ingest data from a variety of data types. It also enables capabilities like self-service machine learning and data mash-ups for collaborative data analysis.
Because the FactoryTalk Analytics platform includes multiple applications built on a common platform, you can buy only what you need and scale. It allows you to execute as close to the source and consumer of data as possible. Leverage your technology investment and remain platform neutral. Minimize the need for IT and data scientist expertise for repeatable tasks and applications.
DISCOVER/FUSE DATA
To improve decision-making, you need to gather insights as closely as possible to devices, data and those who will consume them. That is when the smallest of decisions make the biggest impact on process, time and material management.
FactoryTalk Analytics Edge provides data capture, transformation and analytical capabilities, including predictive machine learning, right on the edge. Quickly assemble and organize your plant-floor data for analysis. Locate and correct sources of inefficiencies quickly to control manufacturing yield, overall equipment effectiveness, and other factors that matter to your business outcome.
GAIN/APPLY INSIGHTS
FactoryTalk Analytics DataFlowML helps remove inconsistencies in the decision-making process to improve your overall bottom line. The software helps you to identify data trends and present insights proactively. Correct anomalies before downtime or quality events occur. Use machine learning to reduce human effort.
ENABLE SELF-SERVICE
You need to know what is happening on your shop floor. But you also need to be able to quickly add context and analyze events on your own.
FactoryTalk Analytics DataView empowers you with faster insights through self-service, intuitive storyboards you can create with a single click. Use natural search language to query and diagnose and resolve issues on the fly. Speed decision-making to tighten production and maximize revenue.
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