Development of A Smart Interfacing Dashboard Between Management and Shop-Floor for Industry 3.0 Machines and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

The aim of the present work is to incorporate industry 4.0 features in industry 3.0 machines like CNC machines. One of the key elements of industry 4.0 is dashboards, which helps to visualize the status of the system at a glance. In general, dashboards were created for management and shop floors individually. In this work, smart dashboards are created for microSMEs with CNC machines to get a glance of the processes happening in the shop floor, the scheduled production plan associated with it, the idle time of the machines etc using the Industrial Internet of things and sensors. The present work also proposes a dashboard for interfacing between shop floor and management which will help in getting the real time status of the production like pauses during production, operator unavailability, communication to the available operators. The proposed dashboard is implemented over an Intelitek Promill 8000 CNC milling machine on a shop floor to bridge communication between shop floor authority and the operator.