Industry 4.0 in Practice
One of our main priorities in our work is compliance with the requirements set by Industry 4.0, which is why we choose our development tools accordingly.
Among the turning points of industrial development, the most significant in terms of volume are the items outlined by Industry 4.0, when considering their number. As information technology and its associated services began to become an integral part of manufacturing processes, opportunities have emerged for system expansions like never before.
DCS systems, by their nature, already met the basic Industry 4.0 requirements even before they were formulated. Our company's principle is to actively leverage these opportunities in the solutions we offer, which, in our case, mainly focus on the System 800xA systems and their specific software modules, categorized as follows:
Digital integration
The general initial goal is for the monitoring and management of geographically and functionally distributed systems to be accessible from a single central operator station. While DCS systems implement plant-level automation following the technology, there is the option to set up control stations that encompass the entire production process. In line with this, ABB offers scalable solutions for operator stations, even for hazardous operational areas.
Platform-independent device communication
In the early days, communication between machines, sensors, and stations was hindered by the uniqueness of communication platforms. Today, factories use a manageable number of common protocols, but the devices connected to the controllers can still be diverse. To eliminate this issue, ABB offers a wide range of communication modules to industrial players, both in hardware and software.
High-level automation
The most straightforward way to increase efficiency is by optimizing manufacturing time, which requires minimizing human intervention. This is the fundamental principle of industrial automation that has shaped the development of modern process control systems. ABB continuously adapts its System 800xA platform to meet the evolving challenges of various industrial sectors, making it the leading DCS solution on the market for decades, and the core of our company's offering.
Complete lifecycle tracking
Planning and executing a larger project can generate a massive amount of documentation and negotiation content. We place great emphasis on providing the best solution for organizing these documents, tailored to the scale of the work. Our company stores these data, both in printed and digital formats, on our own server, accessible as far back as the project's initiation. For newer projects, we use dedicated ALM software to keep everything organized.
The solutions we provide:
CodeBeamer ALM is a holistically integrated, collaboration-based application lifecycle management platform with capabilities that cover your entire product development lifecycle.
The Werum MES solution covers every stage of the manufacturing lifecycle, from process development to commercial production and packaging. It supports all major pharmaceutical segments.
Historical data storage
To increase efficiency, it is essential to have a long-term view and understanding of what is happening during production. The System 800xA data storage system allows continuous monitoring of thousands of signals, with the stored data available up to the storage capacity limit. The built-in trend feature enables the most detailed analyses, and data retrieval can be done either on the system's own display or with external programs (Excel, Access).
Statistics, reports
The retrieval of live and historical data enables real-time statistical calculations that can take into account even the smallest fluctuations in production, as required. We create fully customizable reports, which are automatically generated either in paper format or digitally. The source of this can be:
- Crystal Report
- Dream Report
- Microsoft Excel
Our company is mainly skilled in Excel-based reporting solutions. This can be an advantage in environments that already use Office applications.
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