How does an EZAutomation marquee pay for itself in <3 months
Increases machine/cell/line productivity as production results are clearly visible real time that fosters human competitiveness.
It cuts down Maintenance and downtime as the maintenance personnel can see the machine/process issue from 100 ft to 200 ft away.
Provides enhanced visibility from a distance.
Environmentally and mechanically tough construction of the marquee makes it forklift proof as compoared to digital white boards
Increases safety and compliance.
You can consider EZMaruqee to be an intelligent digital stack light
Dramatic Increase in Productivity that allows EZMarquee to pay for itself in <3 months
Increases machine/cell/line productivity as production results are clearly visible real time that fosters human competitiveness.
It cuts down Maintenance and downtime as the maintenance personnel can see the machine/process issue from 100 ft to 800 ft away.
Provides enhanced visibility from a distance.
Environmentally and mechanically tough construction.
Increases safety and compliance.
Mechanically Strong Forklift Proof
A fork lift can run into it and it will continue to do its job. If at all some portion of the Marquee is damaged, it can be repaired. On the other hand, a digital white board if damaged, in any way requires full replacement.
Digital white boards/computer screens not so rugged for plant floors
Can withstand ambient temperature of 55°C
It has a patented design with 1/3rd the weight, 1/3rd the power and 1/3rd the cost as compared to Rockwell or Spectrum that limit their marquees to 35°C ambient, which automatically shut down when the temperature inside the marquee cabinet rises above 55°C. Temperature inside the cabinet can easily rise 20°C because normal LEDs generate a lot of heat except our LEDs. Our marquees have patented LEDs for low current and thus low heat generation and as such are rated at 55°C ambient.
Sunlight readable Tri-color marquees for Outdoor applications, still connecting to PLCs
EZMarquee has a patented 12000 NIT Tri-color model that has become extremely popular in outdoor applications such as weigh stations, quarries, oil rigs, immigration check posts, border controls, steel mills, and others like applications in forest industry.
Other Unique Features not Found Elsewhere
Full 5x7 Dot Matrix Character for best readbility
Unlike others, we give you a full 5x7 dot matrix international character set as compared to their 4x5 characters.
Stores 200 messages of scrolling, blinking or stationary type.
Messages can be programmed with international character set.
Free ASCII string generating software to load strings in your PLCs. All you do is type in your message in single line, multiple line, mixed lines, mixed character sets and the software generates appropriate PLC strings.
iMarquees that allow Marquees to be added to a PLC Network without need to modify PLC code AT ALL. It reads tags and the information in the tags and displays that information on the Marquee.
No need to change PLC Ladder Logic!
No ladder logic change required when adding a display to communicate Machine/Process status and alarms to plant floor as long as the data is available in PLC. The EZ Intelligent Marquee becomes another node on the PLC network which reads and writes to PLC registers just like an HMI/Operator Interface does.
Most Major PLC Protocols Built-in
All EZPLC protocols
Allen Bradley EtherNet/IP & DF1
Siemens ISO over TCP/IP
Automaton Direct (K-Sequence, Do-More, Click Series etc..)
Mitsubishi
Omron
DH+ optional
Modbus RTU & TCP/IP
Math Logic / Scripting
The Intelligent Marquees offer a sophisticated control, called the Multi-function Object. As the name implies, this Object allows you to perform multiple functions, including Mathematical and Logical operations on PLC data. For example, you can set/reset multiple bits & transfer constants or variables or expressions to tags. Remarkably, this Benefit allows a user to perform up to 20 operations with one Object. Performing these Multiple functions is a very useful feature to offload mathematical & logical computations from the ladder logic to the Marquee.
Display & Store User Programmed Messages based on Event (Tag address) and Time
iMarquee has 3 types of messages, as shown in the figure below.
iMarquee allows you to program a (single) Priority Message along with a condition (such as Bit is set, a register is beyond a value or outside a range, etc). iMarquee would continuously monitor the programmed variable, and display this message when the condition is met. No other message is displayed when priority message is displayed, so this is used for only critical messages.
The second types of messages are Machine/Process Status & alarm messages. Like the priority message, user needs to program message display conditions. You can program any number of such messages. If multiple messages need to be displayed, iMarquee would cycle through these messages.
The normal messages are programmed along with a message number, and which of the programmed message needs be displayed is controlled by the PLC. Only for this type of message, you will have to provide logic in the PLC. The Priority and Status/Alarm messages DO NOT NEED to do anything with the PLC program, only its tag contents.
Import tag database from PLC
With EZ Intelligent Marquee Software, you can automatically import your tag database via .CSV or Excel format. Once the tags are in the software, you then assign a distinct message for each event (bits) and values (registers).
Alarm/Message database
EZ Intelligent Marquees offer a sophisticated alarm system. You can monitor events (bits) and values (registers). The values can then be monitored for a variety of conditions (=, >, <, in/out of range). The alarms can be selectively displayed, printed and / or logged in a alarm database. Practically an unlimited # of messages can be stored inside the marquee itself!
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