When you’ve designed a production line to meet a given output level and your customer demand reaches more than double that level, you’re working three shifts, seven days a week and you still can’t keep up, you need to take action. You essentially have two choices – you invest in a second line or you [...]
ATS has completed a wide range of applications for the automotive industry. 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.Another very large application included painting booths using InTouch SCADA software [...]
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 [...]
Für einen Betrieb der spezialisiert ist in den Verkauf von Chemikalien an Unternehmungen, die Wasser für Industriekühlung und Erhitzungswechselsysteme verwenden. Die Effizienz der Systeme sollte überprüft werden.Dafür wurden mobile Testsysteme konstruiert, mit denen beim Kunden vor Ort die Wasserqualität überprüft werden konnte. Der Kunde hatte keine Erfahrung mit dem für das Testsystem notwendigen Steuerungs- und SCADA-System. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 Manufacturing [...]
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 [...]
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