Honeywell QCS (Quality Control System)

Honeywell of QCS is the offer on the basis of the "software as service" model (Software-as-a-Service, SaaS) for quality control and increase in production in the industry of production of paper and sheet materials

2019: Honeywell QCS 4.0

On April 4, 2018 the Honeywell company announced an output to the market of the offer on the basis of the "software as service" model (Software-as-a-Service, SaaS) for quality control and increase in production in the industry of production of paper and sheet materials. Thanks to connection of machines and quality control systems (QCS) used for production of paper and sheet materials (from plastic, rubber, aluminum, etc.), to a cloud and also application of Big Data and means of the analysis of Honeywell of QCS 4.0 high quality of products will help producers to support, to reduce the number of waste, to cut down expenses and to increase production.

According to the company, the technology connects quality control systems of customers with the platform of Internet of Things Honeywell Sentience which provides reliable and safe processing of Big Data for the connected solutions of Honeywell. QCS 4.0 continuously estimates working indicators of technology processes and defines possibilities of improvement for achievement of maximum capacity. This first cloud solution on the basis of industrial Internet of Things of Honeywell for the industry of production of paper and sheet materials.

By estimates of independent experts, digital technologies can reduce production costs to 15%.

In the conditions of growth of the world markets and toughening of the competition pulp and paper industry feels urgent need for cost reduction and increase in efficiency. Intellectual services which protect the existing assets help to solve these problems, provide step-by-step updating and also fast payback of capital investments. Our tools for work with Big Data, the software and cloud infrastructure provide to producers resources for data storage, the computing powers and means of the analysis necessary for achievement of optimal balance of costs, quality and production. Nick Parker, the vice president and the CEO of division "Industrial automation" according to solutions and services for management of lifecycle

QCS 4.0 controls important indicators in real time and provides information, valuable to decision making. Thus, the solution of Honeywell provides compliance to a number of modern operational requirements and facilitates the choice of the directions for investment of capital in future development. Treat advantages of the solution:

• Increase in the overall effectiveness of the equipment (OEE)
• Problem solving of underutilization of management tools, poor performance and changes of technology processes
• Contrastive analysis of working indicators of paper machines in comparison with similar machines
• Response to due notices about deviations of production indicators
• Maintenance of overall performance at changes and violations of technology processes

The offer on the basis of the SaaS model helps customers not only to maintain product quality, but also to reduce idle times, to predict maintenance and to beforehand configure machines for increase in profitability.