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Efficient Product Handling at GM and Faurecia Fast Efficient Solutions to support Lean Production. A key ingredient in achieving Lean Production operations is having good work practices to monitor and move the product (and components) around the factory. Anyone who has ever worked in a high volume/high speed operation will vouch for this. Organizing product [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Blue Cedar | Working with a system integrator, this project was ultimately for a major beverage manufacturer building a brand new plant at a small town called Ballina in the Irish Republic.We were brought into the project at an early stage early by the principle system integration contractor to create the documentation that would be [...]

Blue Cedar | This project involved inserting a new manufacturing line into an existing production environment. We worked directly for Unilever's own manufacturing improvement projects department.As with the majority of projects, the work was kicked off with a project meeting, gathering together relevant stakeholders, in this case including the project management team, ourselves and senior [...]

Working for a major brewery in the Netherlands has brought us into many aspects of the brewing industry. Suppliers of brewing equipment such as Krohne in Germany also use our communication products widely. Our projects have included water treatment, brew houses, bottling lines and packaging systems.Data transfer from and to the business information systems is [...]