For a renowned Turkish manufacturer of bathroom and sanitary ceramics looking to enhance its production with a modern supervisory system, the implementation of Movicon SCADA delivered improved management of the production process and played a key role in enabling the company to guarantee final product quality. While home potters and smaller pottery businesses tend to…
Products4Automation (P4A) has launched a range of HMIs preloaded with the popular Movicon 11 SCADA software. Natalie Turner UK Sales Director for P4A comments, “We have a large number of Movicon users who will benefit from this new range of HMIs, plus, there are many more out there in the market who will welcome a…
The introduction of 5G promises great things not just for personal mobile communications, but also for business and importantly – plant automation. Carl Nash, technical director at Products4Automation, examines the use case for 5G in a SCADA context – looking at how it can pave the way for increased performance and greater functionality in plant…
Products 4 Automation (P4A) has appointed Jamie Biggs as a dedicated Technical Support Engineer for the UK and Ireland. His role includes product training, specification advice and tech support for users of Movicon SCADA, HMI’s and Industrial PCs.With a strong IT infrastructure background, Jamie is well placed to assist with all the most recent challenges…
The era of Industry 4.0 heralds a model where individual production systems will no longer work in isolation but will be connected to business systems and be able to quickly adapt to changing needs. So, is there a place for SCADA in this emerging picture? As Carl Nash, Technical Director at Products4Automation, explains, SCADA is…
Growing quality grape varieties isn’t the only clincher to gain a foothold in the wine market. Advanced automation and process control solutions help in meeting consumer demands – while maximising plant productivity. One of Italy’s leading winemakers invested in Progea’s Movicon SCADA to manage its production lines more efficiently. Paul Hurst of Products4Automation (P4A), the…
A hotel sought out by the rich and famous for its understated luxury and discrete security, has employed Movicon industrial SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) to illuminate its extensive gardens and create a high-performance CCTV protection system. The Hotel Ramazzino on Sardinia’s fabled Emerald Coast maybe one of the best kept secrets in European…
Enhanced graphics within SCADA systems makes it far easier to visualise production processes, but does that have to be at the cost of increased configuration complexity? Paul Hurst of Products4Automation argues that it does not, and that today’s SCADA solutions can combine the highest levels of visualisation performance with an intuitive interface for ease of…
Pro.Lean software from UK based SCADA specialist Products 4 Automation (P4A) measures real-time productivity through key performance indicators (KPIs) and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). By flagging underproductive areas, Pro.Lean enables users to boost plant performance in real-time, track success and plan for future improvements. The first step in plant productivity optimisation is to measure it,…
Products4Automation (P4A) now offers Progea’s Connext Communication Server for companies investing in automation platform compatibility and data processing. The innovative product is much more than an ordinary server: it offers connectivity for different types of field devices as well as powerful data recording tools. Connext is an open, flexible and modular I/O server solution based…