CRF Costruzioni – Case History
Made in Rilheva – A real Internet of Things story
The company
Specialized in the construction of tomato and olive harvest machines, over the years, CRF has widen its production machineries range:
- The first self-propelled machine for seedling repotting in the greenhouse or directly in the pitch
- A new tractor-carried harvester built to work in hard conditions, i.e. on sloping grounds
- Two facilitator wagons for vegetable harvesting: one for the industrial sector and the other one for the “fresh” market
To simplify customers operation and to follow the latest market trends, CRF has updated its harvester to 4.0 version by using an advanced interconnection system. This provides real-time remote data transmission for service, production and failures.
Goals and key points
Every machine has its own operation and use features: Rilheva remote control lets you know its real-time behaviour and remotely manage and set the machine parameters.
The aim is to optimize machine settings, monitor working conditions and process parameters.
Saving, analysing, and comparing all these data, brings to the awareness of the process, the real company asset in order to improve the machine process and provide better products in less time.
Rilheva solves
Rilheva remote monitoring on CRF agriculture machines grants continuous efficiency and safety.
It is like being on-site and you can operate in real time. In case of simultaneous use of several machines in different areas, it is crucial to understand their behaviour in real operating conditions.
This also provides end-user with an extremely focused consulting service to reach the highest possible operation level.
Constant monitoring allows the customer to keep the vegetable and fruit collection belt speed under control and to compare it with historical hourly/daily production data. Data are grouped and reported in a simple and clear dashboard, to have the complete process always under control.
Alarms have been added to report malfunctions immediately when they occur.
Why would you recommend it?
- Local operator and customer can monitor in real-time location, work and production data.
- In case of malfunction, CRF customer service immediately contacts the customer to provide necessary instructions to solve the problem or, if
required, plan an assistance intervention with an authorized technician.
- To exploit significant tax reductions provided by this technology application.