2009-05-07 Our customer, a leading company in the automotive sector, has achieved major benefits by implementing Six Sigma. The customer was able to reduce the amount of rubber used in the injection machines purge process. [...]

In this ground-breaking experimental project ATS wrote PLC, MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and SCADA software for a steel manufacturer who built a new plant to produce doors for a major car manufacturer. Laser welding separate door components has replaced the old method of producing doors from a single sheet of stamped metal. This significantly reduces the weight of the doors thus helping to improve fuel efficiency. The MES and SCADA software was written in SQL and Visual Basic.

Car manufacturers can invest up to Euro 100 million for a new paint shop. An investment not to be sneezed at which means the system must work hard for many years to be worthwhile. Dürr is the world’s leading supplier of paint shop systems for automotive manufacturers and at their headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany only one word is needed to describe the culture, Quality. [...]

A car manufacturer in Australia chose ATS as their preferred supplier for industrial control training. They quoted ATS’s independent, professional and flexible approach as the reason to choose ATS Training. Custom-made training courses are being developed for engineers and maintenance staff.

Special projects have included INTERBUS connectivity with Allen-Bradley PLC’s whereby a major auto manufacturer and the control supplier asked ATS to write a standard software protocol for implementation with PLC backplane communications modules.