Assembly Line Monitoring System

               The Assembly Line Monitoring System interconnects all the stations in an assembly line to a supervisor. Every assembly station is provided with a Station Monitoring Unit (SMU) which allows the operator at particular station to convey any problem at the station causing the assembly line hold up. Commonly encountered causes are allocated as hot keys to immediately convey the cause for the holdup by pressing a relevant key. Provision is also made to make a voice call to the supervisor either to communicate a cause or holdup not found on the keypad or to describe already conveyed cause in detail. The addition of this voice channel makes the system user-friendly even for the operators with very little education and only knowing the regional language.        

         At supervisor end an LCD display unit of 320 x 240 pixels along with 20 keys keypad is used to display the problems conveyed by several stations and helps the supervisor get onto the voice channel to speck to a particular station and get to know more details.

         The PC shown will only play a role of monitoring the unit and generating management information reports. For functionality PC doesn’t play any role.