Shop Floor Terminal | Full Factory Digital Informatization and Intelligent Manufacturing Integration

Factory Digital Informatization Overview

The shop floor terminal, also known as the industrial touch workstation and smart MES terminal, is a core HMI(Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion) panel PC terminal for smart workshops. It does not undertake complex business logic calculations independently, but serves as a unified shop-floor interactive portal and front-end operation carrier for clients, web portals, and data collection programs. Centered on MES system docking, this multi-system compatible industrial terminal bridges the entire upstream and downstream factory software ecology, breaks IT and OT data silos, and realizes full-link digital interconnection from the enterprise management layer, workshop execution layer, to on-site equipment layer. It supports the full suite of factory information systems and builds a closed-loop intelligent manufacturing management system for full factory informatization.

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• Optional 10.1″/11.6″/15.6″/21.5″ sizes, full viewing angle, 10-Punktkapazitive Berührung
• RK3568/RK3576/RK3588 ARM-based CPU and Intel N97 X86-based CPU optional
• 6 TOPS independent NPU, supports 8K video encoding, Dekodierung & Ausgabe
• 3-in-1 module: Eingebaute 100W HD-Kamera, 125K+13.56MHz dual-frequency card reader, high-precision barcode recognition module
• 4 groups of 12P Phoenix terminals with customizable interfaces
• Serial ports jumper configurable; opto-isolation upgrade optional
• Standard Android 13, compatible with Linux/Ubuntu; customizable with development APIs
• Multiple mounting: Wandmontage, swing arm mounting, desktop mounting, pendant arm mount

Four layers of Enterprise/Factory Information System

1. Upper-layer Information Systems (Two-way Interconnection with MES)

As a professional on-site data collection and production operation terminal, the MES terminal acts as the frontline operation entrance for upper-layer management systems. All enterprise planning data is issued to the workshop through MES, while on-site production data is uploaded back to enterprise management platforms to achieve data synchronization and business closed-loop management, realizing seamless integration of upper-layer enterprise information systems and on-site production execution.

1.1 ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning System)

ERP delivers production orders, BOM data, and material demand plans to MES. MES feeds real-time production reporting, material consumption, and finished warehousing data back to ERP. As a unified workshop operation carrier, the shop floor terminal supports on-site work order inquiry, material shortage verification, and production completion confirmation. It accesses ERP data indirectly through MES interfaces to ensure stable and unified data logic, realizing reliable IT-layer data interconnection.

1.2 APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling System)

APS releases optimized capacity scheduling plans to MES dynamically. MES returns real-time production capacity and abnormal feedback to support rescheduling. As an intelligent shop floor HMI terminal, the industrial touch workstation allows operators to check the latest production schedules, insertion order notifications, and process priority arrangements directly on-site, realizing visualized and flexible production scheduling execution.

1.3 PLM / PDM (Product Lifecycle Management System)

PLM synchronizes product drawings, version-based BOM files, and standardized process documents to MES and ESOP systems. The multi-system compatible industrial touch workstation supports online viewing of 2D/3D drawings, latest process versions, and engineering change notifications, effectively preventing version mismatch and operational errors on the production line, and standardizing on-site process operation management.

1.4 WMS (Warehouse Management System)

MES triggers station material picking, material returning, and semi-finished product warehousing requests. WMS returns real-time inventory and batch data. This intelligent production terminal supports scanning-based material receiving, line-side inventory query, and semi-finished product circulation confirmation. It forms the most widely adopted digital collaboration combination for electronics and auto parts manufacturing: Industrial workstation + MES + WMS, realizing seamless linkage between production and warehouse management.

1.5 QMS (Quality Management System)

MES pushes pending inspection tasks to the workstation. As a core on-site data collection terminal, the shop floor terminal allows operators to input on-site detection data and defect records, and QMS automatically judges pass, rework or scrap results. It supports first-piece inspection, patrol inspection data entry, defect scanning, cause selection, and full-product traceability inquiry, realizing full-process quality data recording and tracing.

1.6 SRM (Supplier Relationship Management System)

For incoming material inspection stations, the industrial touch workstation can display supplier delivery orders and incoming quality issues. Defect data is synchronized to the SRM platform to realize transparent supplier quality assessment and collaborative management, expanding the full factory informatization coverage to upstream supplier collaboration.

1.7 CMMS / EAM (Equipment Maintenance Management System)

Operators report equipment failures through the intelligent shop floor terminal to automatically generate maintenance work orders. The terminal supports one-click Andon fault alarm, maintenance progress checking, and daily equipment inspection recording to improve overall equipment efficiency, realizing integrated equipment management and production execution.

1.8 LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System)

Applicable to chemical, pharmazeutisch, and new material industries. The multi-functional industrial touch workstation calls laboratory test reports and associates test data with production batches to realize standardized quality data linkage between workshop production and laboratory testing, completing full-link quality informatization management.

2. Shop Floor Auxiliary Software (On-site Operation & Anzeige)

As a local running carrier and visualized operation terminal for shop-floor auxiliary software, the industrial touch workstation supports one-stop loading and linkage of all mainstream workshop auxiliary systems, realizing paperless, visualized, and standardized on-site management, and optimizing lean production execution on the workshop floor.

2.1 ESOP (Electronic Standard Operating Procedure)

Independent or MES-embedded electronic SOP system. The industrial HMI terminal automatically matches work orders to display process documents, operation videos, and assembly diagrams. It links with MES workflow to synchronously update SOP content when production orders switch, replacing traditional paper manuals and realizing paperless workshop operation.

2.2 Andon System

Built-in one-click Andon buttons for material shortage, equipment failure, and quality abnormality. Through the on-site intelligent workstation, on-site alarms are pushed synchronously to production dashboards and management mobile terminals to accelerate problem handling and reduce line downtime, improving workshop emergency response efficiency.

2.3 SPC (Statistical Process Control System)

As a professional on-site data collection terminal, the industrial touch workstation collects on-site measurement data in real time, displays process CPK values and control charts, and monitors production process fluctuations to realize early quality risk warning and process stability control, supporting refined process quality management.

2.4 OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness System)

Docking with on-site equipment data, the shop-floor terminal intuitively displays equipment utilization rate, downtime duration, and real-time defective rate, providing accurate data support for equipment performance analysis and production optimization, and realizing data-driven equipment efficiency management.

3. Bottom-layer OT Equipment Data Collection System

The shop floor terminal serves as a professional on-site data collection and transfer gateway for the OT layer, supporting multi-protocol docking with industrial equipment to collect real-time operating data and upload to MES and upper management systems, realizing stable IT/OT data interconnection and bottom-layer equipment data acquisition.

3.1 SCADA System

SCADA unifies and summarizes operating parameters of PLC and production equipment. The smart workshop workstation realizes real-time viewing of equipment status, Temperatur, pressure, and production tact data to support visualized workshop monitoring and equipment operation supervision.

3.2 PLC, CNC and Robotic Equipment

Supports mainstream industrial protocols including Modbus TCP/RTU, OPC tun, S7, and MC protocols. As a multi-protocol compatible industrial HMI terminal, the workstation directly collects equipment counting data and operating status signals to complete real-time data uploading and production data synchronization.

3.3 Visual Inspection System (AOI / SPI / Vision Camera)

The shop floor terminal receives OK/NG detection results and defect data from visual inspection equipment, displays real-time inspection information on the terminal, and synchronizes all defect records to MES to achieve full quality traceability of production products.

4. General Platforms & Auxiliary Systems

4.1 IIoT Industrial Internet Platform

The intelligent shop floor terminal supports edge cloud data upload, remote equipment monitoring, and remote operation and maintenance management, realizing unified online management of distributed workshop equipment and expanding factory informatization to remote intelligent management.

4.2 Production Dashboard System

The industrial panel PC realizes data homology between local workstation terminals and workshop large display screens. Real-time output, yield, OEE and abnormal data are synchronized to the dashboard to support visualized factory management and unified data presentation of workshop production status.

4.3 OA Collaborative Office System

The multi-system compatible workstation supports online approval of production abnormalities and process change applications. It connects on-site production scenarios with enterprise office workflows to improve approval efficiency and realize integration of production execution and office collaboration.

4.4 Identity Authentication System

The smart shop-floor terminal supports NFC card swiping, Gesichtserkennung, and account login. It realizes strict operator identity verification and on-site authority control to ensure production data accuracy and operational standardization, building standardized and safe workshop production management.

5. Complete Factory Data Flow Logic

PLM → ERP → APS → MES ↔ WMS / QMS / CMMS

MES ↔ SCADA / PLC / Vision Inspection System

The industrial shop floor terminal, as the unified shop-floor interactive HMI and core intelligent workstation, connects the full suite of factory informatization systems to realize end-to-end digital production management.