X-Pact<sup>®</sup> Process guidance

Process-oriented operational guidance von SMS group ensures the same look and feel for the whole digital environment across all products. This automation technology creates the necessary transparency for your plant and links knowledge and data intelligently and systematically. Seamless merging of automation levels and a component-oriented system allow extendibility by adding further modules and applications.

No break in operation
High flexible production with ever smaller batch sizes and increasingly wider production mixes
Handling of special situations through operators, no matter how experienced he may be

Future-proof modular automation concept
Private cloud based technology stack, conform with Industry 4.0
Seamless merging of automation levels – No break in operation Intelligent, process-oriented operational guidance
Uniform system platform and universal interfaces for the whole digital environment
Component-oriented system extendable by adding further modules and applications
Process optimization system can be incorporated
Compatible to Software as Service (SaaS)

Modules

Tracking module displays the current status of the plant: which product is being produced, in which quality and under which conditions?

Reporting module captures all necessary data. Editing of the report designs is another key feature of this module.

Example: The casting machine tracks the material flow and transformation and guides the operator along the entire casting process.
Process slider

The process slider as the plant operator’s central HMI unit provides intelligent, process-oriented and situation-specific operator guidance. It ensures that the operator receives only information needed for a particular process step.