OPTILINK cloud
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GET YOUR PRODUCTION PLANT READY FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

The cloud-based platform Achenbach OPTILINK® opens the way to the overall system networking of the various value creation stages and therefore to the optimization of the entire production process. Achenbach OPTILINK® simplifies and automates a variety of routine tasks in the production process in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Once installed, the system collects data from the individual machines along the process chain such as condition, performance, consumption or quality and analyses these with the help of experts. It can be used as a toolbox for a variety of issues.

DISCOVER NEW DIMENSIONS

Achenbach OPTILINK® is a platform that grows with the requirements. Our flexible concept allows the connection of single machines up to the complete networking of entire plants or companies. Due to the scalable technology stack, OPTILINK offers you the computing capacity and storage space you need for your applications at any time. 

By connecting additional machines, measurements and equipment, you can benefit from synergy effects as existing evaluations can easily be transferred and new analysis possibilities are available due to a larger process coverage. Some of Achenbach's customers have already connected production lines from hot mill to foil rolling and are using the flexibility and modularity of OPTILINK.

With Achenbach OPTILINK® production plants are ready for the digital age!

AREAS OF APPLICATION

OEE-ANALYSIS: Optimization of availability, productivity, and quality

CONDITION MONITORING: Reduction of maintenance costs and optimization of the equipment’s productive time

ENERGY MONITORING AND CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS

SPARE PARTS IDENTIFICATION

REPORTING AND ALERTING: Automated report generation and smart alerting

OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Support of data driven business decisions

SHOPFLOOR DATA INTEGRATION: Real time automated approach to data collection

IMPROVE THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION PROCESS
THROUGH ALL STAGES OF THE VALUE CHAIN

MAINTENANCE:

• Reducing repair costs and downtimes
• Searching and inquiring spare sarts fast and easy
• Avoid unplanned stops

PRODUCTIVITY:

• Optimizing availability and non productive time
• Improving Information exchange between Machines
• Clear view on Downtime Reasons

ENERGY:

• Monitoring Energy Consumption
• Automized reporting for ISO 50001 Management Audits
• Identify Waste by SEU-Charts

INFORMATION:

• KPI calculations in real time
• Automated report generation
• Data integration
• Enabling data based decisions
• Shopfloor dashboards

QUALITY/PROCESS:

• Monitoring and analyzing product over all stages
• Overview over production conditions
• Finding and tracing quality issues
• Finding correlations in quality parameters

YOUR CHALLENGES - OUR SOLUTIONS

OPTILINK shows customers what they can achieve with their equipment. It grows with its tasks. With OPTILINK data becomes information, and information becomes value.

The software in everyday use

OPTILINK Energy Management Tool (EMT): Availability of live energy consumption and CO2 emissions at product level

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OPTILINK Vibration Monitoring: Early detection of irregularities to increase the efficiency of production

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OPTILINK Spare Parts Catalog: providing an interactive 3D-environment to navigate the required spare parts

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OPTILINK Smart Alerting: monitoring the enforcement of production specifications

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7 Reasons
FOR CHOOSING OPTILINK

  1. Efficient analysis processes: OPTILINK offers a user-friendly interface for analyzing data. This enables decision-makers to access important insights faster and make informed decisions, leading to improved business performance.
  2. Better resource efficiency: By automating reporting processes and integrating data from multiple sources, companies can use their resources more efficiently.
  3. Prevention of errors: By using OPTILINK, companies can reduce manual, often error-prone processes. By automating data analysis and reporting, potential errors can be prevented and data accuracy improved.
  4. Faster response times: Real-time data visualization and analysis enables companies to respond quickly to changing production conditions and identify opportunities or risks. This can help to increase revenue or minimize losses.
  5. Cost reduction through better decision-making: OPTILINK provides better insights into production data, which leads to informed decision-making. These decisions can help reduce costs by identifying and optimizing inefficient processes or directing investment to areas that offer the greatest potential for growth.
  6. Reduced dependency on IT: OPTILINK enables non-technical users to analyze data and create reports independently, without the support of the IT department or programmers. In contrast to analyses that non-technical users could create with Excel, OPTILINK saves a lot of time importing data, always provides up-to-date data and can display the results for everyone in the company.
  7. End-to-end expertise: With OPTILINK, customers are using a component developed by a manufacturer of rolling mill equipment. The special features of aluminum production and certain frequently occurring tasks have already been considered. The people involved understand the overall process and therefore need less time to understand and solve specific customer tasks. With OPTILINK, the customer saves time and effort in clarifying interfaces between different systems and suppliers because the project can be handled under one roof, from the machine to the data analysis.

put ai to work

Achenbach OPTILINK® consists of a set of matching components for data collection, advanced data processing, and information gathering with the following strengths:

  • Easy and smooth installation in an existing machine network
  • Cost-effective storage of production data
  • Best access performance
  • Powerful and user-friendly information processing with graphical analysis tools

“Achenbach OPTLINK® eliminates the tedious and time-consuming collection of data.
This time can now be used for analysis and optimization.”

Bernd Gebhardt, Plant Manager - SLIM MERSEBURG GmbH, Germany

“We have implemented digitalized roll management with Achenbach OPTILINK®. It provides our production teams at the grinding workshop and rolling mills a quick access to the same information.
­This system enables us to precisely track roll changes and grinding histories.
­The rolls dashboard further empowers us to pinpoint and address individual roll failures proactively.”

Matteo Castellani, Industrial Director at Carcano.

“When we started working with the OPTILINK Spare Parts Catalogue, we immediately liked the good overview over the whole machine. Identifying and requesting spare parts with this tool is easy and fast. Particularly we like the fact that we are 100% sure to receive the right part to provide efficient maintenance to our machines.”

Claudio Bortolote, Senior Project Manager at Gränges

“In collaboration with Achenbach LCS team by using OPTILINK, we successfully tackled flatness quality challenges on specific materials. OPTILINK played a crucial role in computing defined KPIs and monitoring the impact of process adjustments, resulting in significant improvements to our targeted product groups. The system is a comprehensive toolkit also promising optimization opportunities for our wide range product portfolio. It also allows us to have a quick and useful overview of the mill parameters, both in real-time and retrospectively.”

Matteo Castellani, Industrial Director at Carcano.

“We wanted to track the coil change time in the mill following precisely our companies own standard definition of TAT (turnaround times). With the broad data base of OPTILINK and in cooperation with the Achenbach team this task was easy to solve. With the help of the new dashboards, we have gained deeper insights into the TAT and in which areas there is potential for optimization.”

Soumya Swain, Senior Electrical Engineer at the Hirakud plant, Hindalco

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