Process Improvement of Finishing Machine by Real Time Monitoring using IoT

Abstract

At present many small-scale fabric industries finishing machines are not automated, Human intervention is required for analysis and highlighting the technical parameters deviations. In fabric industry parameter analysis like temperature, water level, humidity and pressure has to be done and usually it's done manually. This led to high workload on engineers and operators for parameters logging and communication to engineering department and also its time consuming for maintenance team members to get different types of analysis, e.g., down time %, Repeated breakdown % etc, which may lead to poor analysis process for defectives in fabric. So, to overcome this problem in fabric industry, process improvement can be done by real-time monitoring of finishing machines using IOT. This paper presents the technique to make the finishing process of fabric industry automated i.e. to do real time monitoring of finishing process, using IoT technology. By automation of the finishing process there will be good analysis of poor fabric, and this will also prevent fabric wastage. This process saves human power, as the output is directly received through WhatsApp or Email in form of graphs which prevent manual analysis of parameter. Since the finishing process is automated the cost is controlled by reduction in rejection of fabric and it also increases productivity of machines and human resource. This leads to smart working practices by eliminating paper works and time-consuming methods.