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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 [...]

In April 2013 at Hannover Messe, a consortium of universities, research institutions and industrial companies in Germany presented a report which called for investment, awareness, ideas and further research to help realise ­Industry 4.0 – a term used to describe a wide variety of innovations in IT, manufacturing technology and materials that will lead to [...]

"Manufacturing companies can take some simple steps to help prepare their business for change and the fourth industrial revolution". Image: DaveBleasdale, Learning Zone; flickr.com (CC BY 2.0) This article was first published in the Spring 2015 issue of OnWindows. In the last issue of OnWindows I outlined the technologies and thinking behind the fourth industrial [...]

ATS ADOS Manufacturing Data Collection, Reporting, and Analysis Suite Received the New Product Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan.Based on its recent analysis of the plant data management and quality optimization solutions market for discrete industries, Frost & Sullivan recognizes ATS International with the Global Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. ATS International’s [...]

Medical devices save lives and transform people’s quality of life. They are typically designed by surgeons who give little thought to Design for Manufacture.Manufacturing IT solutions are however available to ensure that medical devices can be produced compliantly and repeatedly. ATS are working with multi-national medical device manufacturers helping them transform their manufacturing processes, from [...]

ATS provided Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) consultancy for Allergan Pharmaceutical in 2013, helping Allergan evaluate their requirement for a Manufacturing Execution System (MES).During this 6 month project, two of ATS’s MOM consultants worked on-site following ATS’s ‘Work Packages’ approach to system selection. The consultants provided training, completed an AS-IS assessment, wrote a detailed business case, [...]

4 out of 10 largest 2013 automobile producing companies are using ATS’s products in their quality management and reporting: 1. Toyota- Vehicles Produced (2013): 10,104,424 2. General Motors- Vehicles Produced (2013): 9,285,425 3. Volkswagen- Vehicles Produced (2013): 9,254,742 4. Hyundai- Vehicles Produced (2013): 7,126,413 5. Ford- Vehicles Produced (2013): 5,595,483 6. Nissan- Vehicles Produced (2013): [...]

I recently attended an Automotive conference where the presenter talked about Straight Through Ratios (STR). What he meant was a vehicle that went through the full assembly process without a single fault being detected.He showed a live screen with today’s statistics, presented on a huge Andon Board (LCD screen) along the assembly line. Only 32% [...]