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Abstract As we know, the industry had been developed because of the development of machines, which produce different products. This made an increase in production and quality of products. In the past, industry was depending on cleverness and muscles of human being. When the electricity was discovered, the machines had a great development. New inventions appeared after Electricity like motors, engine, dynamo ... etc, and these inventions were very useful for machines and made them faster and more accurate. In 1970 the electronic circuits were designed to enhance the machine functions. Thus the PLC module (programmable Logic Control) was designed to get more useful performance and functions from machines. In 1990 machine suppliers was starting to produce full programming machines CNC (Computerized Numeric Control). In the last century we had seen the machine with robot. Because the new machines were so expensive, this made supervisors follow up the performance of machine on the factory. So some companies made special notebook to write the status of machine like production, troubleshooting, time of machine stop, production time and setup time ... etc. Hence, I thought about a new idea to write down reports of machine status automatically using PC (Personal Computer). We can implement this idea by developing an Electronic Circuit, which transfer the effective signals from machine PLC to PC (personal Computer). Also we can develop software program to manage signals which come from the machine. This software has a database, which is ready to treat with signals as variables. Thus we can follow up the machine status in long term, and the software program will issue all required statistics and reports. Also these reports will be very useful for production and maintenance departments, to make correct plane to load the machine in a suitable line. In the following chapters we will explain the idea as will as the implementation of Software and Hardware. |