Connected Assets

Limit Downtime and Maximize Profits

Effective outbound sortation systems are critical to ensuring maximum labor utilization and meeting customer service level agreements in distribution and fulfillment operations. Connected Assets by Honeywell builds upon our Connected Distribution Center infrastructure to help DC operators keep critical sortation systems running at peak productivity levels.

Connected Assets continuously accumulates data on equipment and system health to give you real-time statuses and historical insights into your sortation system’s overall performance. The system detects equipment degradation and process inefficiencies to help you identify fault conditions that could limit productivity or threaten uptime. With Connected Assets, you can:

• Receive real-time notifications of issues affecting an asset or process
• Uncover hidden areas of utilization
• View current system status and historical data trends for accurate forecasting
• Preempt and predict unplanned downtime

How it works: connected architecture

Connected Assets starts by connecting sortation machine control systems to extract operational data. This gives you access to performance dashboards to monitor sortation system and sub-system statuses, including:

• Merge rates, lane flow balancing
• Scanner read rates, recirculation rates
• Downtime, throughput
• Asset utilization
• Trending graphs for intuitive system visualization

Add machine-level sensors on key points of your sortation system to monitor equipment health and trending performance insights, such as:

• Motor gearboxes — temperature and vibration
• Power control panel — voltage, amperage and electricity consumed per case shipped
• Facility temperature and humidity — facility baselines and weight-scale adjustment considerations

Connected control systems and machine-level sensors combine to provide insights into your sortation system’s real-time and historic trends.

Connected Assets utilizes a proven software suite that’s been used for decades in critical process industries.

• Pulse™ mobile app — receive alerts and triage issues
• Uniformance® Asset Sentinel — view live performance and asset health dashboards
• Uniformance Insight — access historic trends on asset condition and system performance

Combined, these tools allow DC operators and enterprise managers to make informed decisions, take decisive actions, and accelerate issue resolution.

Detect. Preempt. Predict.

As the platform accumulates data on each of these systems, sub-systems and KPIs, it’s able to develop trending information on performance and asset health. Enterprise managers and DC operators can leverage these historic and real-time insights to preempt and predict equipment failures, and drive process efficiencies:

• Sortation scanner misreads and “bad gaps” that overload recirculation conveyors
• Excessive conveyor motor vibration, indicating imminent failure
• Inefficient, manual activation/deactivation of merge lanes