Food & Beverage

ATS Australia has many years of experience with vegetable oil processing, from crude oil to blended and deodorised oil ready for pack out to downstream customers and for margarine manufacture. Some examples are: Control systems FDS for the oilseed processing plant, solvent-based extraction plants and refineries. Automation implementations for vegetable oil refineries, deodorisers, blending, receiving [...]

A large Dutch slaughterhouse has been using ATS MeatIT in their MES/MOM environment for decades. Every piece of meat is tracked and linked with the parent ERP system. The software on the work floor has been adapted to the production process and is easy to operate by hand via a touchscreen.Recently an issue was reported. [...]

From the start ATS has been a key member of the team implementing Opcenter Execution ( Discrete or Process) MES into all of the plants of this multinational soft drinks supplier. ATS has been rewarded this contract based on its long-term involvement and ability to make this project successful.As part of the initial project, that [...]

A beverage manufacturer sought to upgrade their Allen-Bradley SLC500 DH+ installation to ethernet to provide benefits such increased network bandwidth, reliability and ability to readily integrated with planned future new machinery. Further, a legacy RSView 32 SCADA installation was to be upgraded to CitectSCADA v7.2. This upgrade mainly provided the advantages of flexible & user [...]

ATS delivers a Opcenter Execution ( Discrete or Process) MES system to a large Company in the Netherlands that produces Coffee, Cocoa Cappuccino, Milk/Whiteners, Teas and a varied range of hot and cold drinks. Partners included, this company has over 225,000 vending machines and 4,000 employees, a real Leader in many Western European countries.The coffee [...]

Carlsberg’s catchphrase, 'Probably the world’s best beer', is a famous, modest, tongue-in-cheek understatement from this Danish beer company. Can we say the same about its manufacturing execution system (MES) implementation? Will it probably be the world’s best MES?In this article I want to tell you about the good, bad and ugly of an MES implementation. I [...]

A pilot project for a company producing animal food since 1987 in all leading pet food categories. Expertise in the field of wet food in recent years expanded to include dry food, snacks and cakes.ATS implemented a quality control system on the filling machines. The filling machine fills aluminium trays with wet food, and an [...]

The Carlsberg Group Carlsberg Breweries, headquartered in Copenhagen Denmark initiated a supply chain management improvement process with a best practice program in 2006. The Carlsberg Group, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the leading brewery groups in the world, with a large portfolio of beer and other beverage brands. The flagship brand [...]

Stefan Thone is enthusiastic and leads us immediately to the production lines at Hengstenberg in Frizlar, to show us their manufacturing execution system. We are standing between the two canning lines looking at a large screen presenting facts and figures about today’s production. As Group Managing Director of ATS I’ve heard a lot about this [...]

A Sauerkraut Production Company wanted to improve efficiency and productivity and at the same time lower operation costs. Hengstenberg was founded in 1876 and now employs 650 people at plants in Esslingen (headquarters), Bad Friedrichshall and Fritzlar and achieves total annual sales of Euro 150 Million. The plant in Fritzlar has 120 employees and during the [...]