Streamline data with Monico
MONICO INC is an expert in industrial engine communications, and in particular, communicating with Caterpillar equipment in all mobile and stationary markets.
President and chief executive Doyle Taylor said that Monico’s gateways are industrially hardened products that are pre-configured to be as ‘plug and play’ as possible, while providing scaled streaming data over a compressed and encrypted channel to meet today’s cyber security needs.
“We have recently completed installations on Caterpillar mining equipment where we are providing streaming data directly into our customer’s OSI Pi System data infrastructure,” Mr Taylor said.
“This data is being used to provide operational intelligence to improve efficiency and pre-planned maintenance.”
In the mining market in particular, only certain CAT equipment (such as haul trucks) have the option of a VIMS module to provide data to a customer.
“Unfortunately, it is aggregated data such as average, minimum, maximum, and median data and is provided in a text format once per hour — this does not meet the customers’ needs for streaming data for analytics,” Mr Taylor said.
“Other equipment, such as dozers, do not offer this option at all.
“Monico gateways can fill this critical need in today’s digital transformation environment.”
The gateways read data from the machine network, create data containers and buffer them until a network connection is available for transmission.
In an industry where equipment is often heavily used in unforgiving environments, the buffering of data, events and diagnostics enhance the ability to asses overall equipment health.
Mr Taylor points to a recent example in which Monico’s gateways provided streaming brake temperature values for all wheels on a loaded decent road.
“The customer is comparing drivers of the large haul trucks to see who needs remedial training in the operation of the vehicles,” he said.
“This achievement alone will save a tremendous amount of maintenance money due to the large cost of brakes and tires on these vehicles.”
Monico aims to work with customers’ experts in future to create analytics for the engine and machines.
“This would then be pushed down to the gateway where everything can happen in real-time,” Mr Taylor said.
For more information about equipment monitoring with Monico visit: www.monicoinc.com.
Monico Inc will exhibit at IMARC booth A14.