Service platform to enter process automation 4.0

The Dig­i­tal Main­te­nance Man­ag­er (DMM) from Sick­s’s Smart Ser­vice Suite is a ser­vice plat­form for man­ag­ing, visu­al­iz­ing, imple­ment­ing, and record­ing the main­te­nance require­ments of the com­pa­ny analy­sis and process mea­sure­ment sen­sors and sys­tems in process plants. The DMM dis­plays all the installed sen­sors and mea­sure­ment sys­tems in dig­i­tal form and pro­vides plant oper­a­tors with up-to-date infor­ma­tion about their cur­rent and future oper­at­ing sta­tus. On this basis, the DMM auto­mat­i­cal­ly iden­ti­fies the oper­a­tional and statu­to­ry main­te­nance require­ments and coor­di­nates the upcom­ing ser­vice dates. The inte­grat­ed doc­u­ment man­age­ment sys­tem man­ages all the ser­vice activ­i­ties car­ried out by inter­nal or exter­nal staff and keeps the test doc­u­ments up-to-date, which means that a full doc­u­men­ta­tion set is avail­able quick­ly in the event of an audit.
The Dig­i­tal Main­te­nance Man­ag­er is a non-pro­pri­etary web front-end that can be used via a web inter­face from any device with an Inter­net con­nec­tion. The ser­vice plat­form is com­pat­i­ble with all analy­sis and process mea­sure­ment sen­sors and sys­tems from the com­pa­ny and offers plant oper­a­tors the oppor­tu­ni­ty to man­age and visu­al­ize the entire Sick field instru­men­ta­tion and to inte­grate it into an end-to-end main­te­nance and doc­u­ment man­age­ment sys­tem. With the help of a traf­fic sig­nal sys­tem, oper­a­tors can imme­di­ate­ly iden­ti­fy the main­te­nance sta­tus of sen­sors and mea­sure­ment sys­tems in machines and plants. This allows main­te­nance to be planned in advance and imple­ment­ed either by in-house engi­neers or by Life­Time Services.

Entry point to process automation 4.0

By ful­ly dig­i­tiz­ing all Sick­’s analy­sis and process mea­sure­ment sys­tems in one plant, the DMM allows for com­pre­hen­sive installed base man­age­ment. It also paves the way for process automa­tion 4.0 and there­fore for the val­ue-added net­work­ing of sen­sors and mea­sure­ment sys­tems in machines and equip­ment and the sys­tem­at­ic eval­u­a­tion of machine and process data in order to min­i­mize down­times and improve the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of process plants.