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A Filter Installation for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Amafilter produces filter installation for the pharmaceutical industry. For this filter it is required that process data is available at any time needed. A Siemens S7 400 PLC is used to control the system and Wonderware InTouch is used for SCADA. The choice was to implement Wonderware InSQL Server and Active Factory for visualisation, analysing [...]

A Filter Installation for the Pharmaceutical Industry2020-12-18T07:36:14+00:00

Opcenter Intelligence at Bosch in Australia

Robert Bosch Australia is a leading manufacturer of automotive components and an important subsidiary within the German Bosch Group. The company first contacted ATS to help with a diode manufacturing process. The process was unpredictable with erratic quality and production levels. ATS’s success in solving this problem led to a study of how to improve [...]

Opcenter Intelligence at Bosch in Australia2023-02-08T07:12:10+00:00

Precision painting with Dürr at Volkswagen

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 [...]

Precision painting with Dürr at Volkswagen2022-06-03T08:11:55+00:00

Duracell: Line Operators become Line Managers with Opcenter Intelligence from Activplant and ATS

Duracell produces their well-known batteries in Aarschot, Belgium for the European market. Competition and steadily growing sales levels stimulate Duracell to constantly increase productivity. The Plant Manager, Eduardo Toseto revels in the challenge and is man willing to change the rules to meet his goals. This success story starts with a vision, a management philosophy. [...]

Duracell: Line Operators become Line Managers with Opcenter Intelligence from Activplant and ATS2025-09-22T11:03:16+00:00

Visteon – Airbags

Airbags Blow Up Safely with Best Practices in the Automotive Industry Visteon Berlin produces instrument panels for the latest Ford Car. The panel has an invisible door for the airbag and the door must operate properly if the airbag is activated. In this project state of the art software is implemented to track the production process, [...]

Visteon – Airbags2022-06-03T08:09:48+00:00

MES System for Cadillac doors line

When designing a system to run a production line which must fulfill orders with only 3 hours notice, the possibility of carrying inventory is non-existent and the impact of failure is enormous, you must think hard about the solution you come up with. This was case early last year when Faurecia engaged ATS to design and [...]

MES System for Cadillac doors line2021-07-05T14:25:08+00:00

Part Feed Conveyor System for Glove Box Assembly

When faced with the question of how to organize the part feed operations for their Glove Box Assembly line, Faurecia (the world renowned auto components manufacturer) turned to ATS for assistance.With a joint team, our expert process engineers examined the production process. Having identified the process as having high labor costs and difficult to manage [...]

Part Feed Conveyor System for Glove Box Assembly2021-07-06T09:23:46+00:00

ATS MES End User Experiences Report Available Now

”A report designed from experiences and best practices based on facts rather than opinions” Order form available here   The ATS MES End User Experiences Report provides manufacturing companies an overview of experiences and best practices in the area of Manufacturing Execution Systems. The information and experiences used for this report are from End Users only, [...]

ATS MES End User Experiences Report Available Now2023-03-14T09:27:08+00:00

Water Cooling Systems

For a company that is specialised in selling chemicals to companies who use water for industrial cooling and heat exchange systems. To prove the effectiveness of their systems they decided to build mobile test systems to measure water quality at customer locations.The client had little experience with the control and SCADA systems required for the [...]

Water Cooling Systems2021-06-15T07:59:52+00:00

Water and Waste Water Treatment

Managing water and waste water treatment combines simple pumping stations with complex waste water treatment and central control stations over large geographical areas.One of ATS’s experiences in the “World of Water” is a waste water management project at the RWZI. This project involved Siemens PLC’s, combined with a Profibus FMS-network and SCADA applications using FIX32 and [...]

Water and Waste Water Treatment2021-07-05T13:41:11+00:00
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