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KPI calculation to increase productivity of container cranes

iba system provides complete overview of operations in different ports

When it comes to port logistics, time is money. In order to identify existing bottlenecks more easily and thus to exploit optimization potentials, a multinational logistics company decided to take a closer look at the operation of their container cranes. Therefore, the iba system was installed in four Australian ports with five to seven loading cranes each and became an eye-opener for the company: For the first time, the customer had a central and complete overview of the crane operation in all ports. In addition to the capacity utilization, the planning of the preventive maintenance was improved permanently. 

Business Benefits

Central and complete overview
of crane operation in all ports

Improvement of maintenance schedules
and introduction of a preventive maintenance concept

Determination of the life span
of a crane based on actual usage

The Technology


For each loading and unloading cycle of a crane, the logistics company specified about 30 relevant KPIs. These were to be extracted into a central database. In the installed iba system, the crane data is acquired via ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer, with about 20 signals being acquired per crane. In a further step, the requested parameters are calculated event-driven via macros and functions of ibaAnalyzer and extracted into an SQL database with the help of ibaDatCoordinator and ibaDatCoordinator-DB. For each port, one virtualized ibaPDA system and one ibaHD-Server are used. During the entire duration of the project, iba Oceania took care of the engineering and commissioning of the solution. 


"The use of the iba system was an eye-opener: For the first time, the customer has a central and complete overview of crane operations across all ports and is able to optimize the processes on this basis"

Ross Gibbs
Lead Engineer,
iba Oceania

iba Products


Measuring from the beginning - ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer
ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer

As an entry-level system, users can deploy ibaPDA-PLC-Xplorer on a smaller scale. This license offers functionality similar to ibaPDA with a limited signal count. Without additional hardware, this is an inexpensive way of measuring, displaying and recording signals from various manufacturers' PLCs.

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Historical data - ibaHD-Server
ibaHD-Server

ibaHD-Server empowers users with the ability to perform long-term analytics while rapidly visualizing trends and events from months to milliseconds. Easily archive large time-synchronized data sets, even from multiple ibaPDA systems. Querying events provides immediate access to failure-mode and root-cause discovery.

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Analysis software - ibaAnalyzer
ibaAnalyzer

ibaAnalyzer is characterized by its broad capability for analyzing and evaluating data. The application is intuitive and offers an advanced set of functions. The license for analyzing measurement files, which have been generated with the iba system, is free of charge.

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Automatic post processing - ibaDatCoordinator
ibaDatCoordinator

ibaDatCoordinator is a powerful tool for processing and managing measurement data automatically. Typical fields of application are automatic data management, creating reports or the extraction of product-related characteristic values in databases or other systems. In synergy with ibaAnalyzer, various tasks can be done fully automatically and routine procedures can be simplified.

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