Implementation of a system ANDON for the utilities department in a plastic injection plant

ANDON systems have been very useful in different industrial processes, since through visual management they alert in real time about present problems, reducing response time, downtime and increasing efficiency. These systems are generally manual and depend on the manipulation of operators; their operation is desired to be automatic; this can be achieved using elements that capture process variables and programmable controllers and display elements. This work presents an application in a plastic injection company to solve a problem of monitoring pressure and temperature services that caused downtime in production lines. The use of sensors is proposed for the acquisition of variables and screens to present information through visualization tools available in PLC for remote monitoring, acquisition and presentation of data so that solutions can be applied immediately, reducing downtime. and saving costs.