FELTEN PILOT® MES MAINTENANCE SOLUTION DELIVERS REDUCED DOWNTIME AND GREATER MACHINE AVAILABILITY

Products4Automation has launched “PILOT Maintain”, the latest module in its proven Felten PILOT MES platform. PILOT Maintain makes it possible not only to plan preventative maintenance for all devices, systems and machines relevant for the production process, but also to carry out the plan in a targeted manner. The launch of the PILOT Maintain module…

MOVICON SCADA EXPANDS AND OPTIMISES PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR ITALIAN LEADER IN BIO-DIESEL PRODUCTION

Products4Automation, UK distributor for Progea Movicon SCADA, is highlighting the relevance of its SCADA product to ecological issues following a recent application regarding alternative fuels in Italy. Fox Petroli, the Italian leader in the bio-diesel, has optimised and expanded the production process at its Vasta Plant by investing in Progea Movicon SCADA. The company chose…

P4A RELEASES HIGHER FUNCTIONALITY VERSION OF MOVICON XML – BASED SCADA PACKAGE FOR ALL-IN-ONE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

Products 4 Automation (P4A) has released the latest updated version of its high performance Movicon SCADA software. The new version, Movicon 11.2, now runs on Windows CE to Windows 7 and introduces a series of important new features. These are in the areas of graphics and alarm management, editor, tag, licence and network management, making…

MODULAR MES SYSTEM CONTROLS €50M CZECH LONZA BIOTEC PLANT

FELTEN PILOT® MES/WDS WEB-BASED PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT AND WEIGHING SYSTEM CONTROLS FERMENTATION PLANT AT LONZA BIOTEC Lonza Biotec s.r.o. in the Czech Republic, one of the world‘s leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries, has invested in a multi-product manufacturing facility that increases the company’s fermentation capacities by 50%. The combined Production Management…

NIVEA BOTTLING LINES GET AN EFFICIENCY BOOST WITH PILOT PRODUCTION DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS

Beiersdorf AG is reporting significant increases in efficiency at its NIVEA production plant in Hamburg, Germany, following the implementation of a PILOT [TPM] Total Productivity Management system from FELTEN. The web-based solution is affordable, scalable, and easy to integrate across multiple lines and numerous locations. With its globally-renowned beauty and skin-care products, Beiersdorf AG owns…

P4A COMBINES NEW PANASONIC FLAT SCREEN PCS & MOVICON CE TO DELIVER LOW COST, WINDOWS™ CE-BASED SCADA PACKAGE

Products 4 Automation (P4A) has concluded an agreement with Panasonic, under which P4A will distribute the Panasonic GN series of flat panel PCs running P4A’s Movicon CE™ software, the most powerful HMI platform currently available for Windows™ CE. The combined package is compact, and capable of satisfying every user need, in terms of visualisation and…

PRODUCTS4AUTOMATION SEMINAR REVEALS SOLUTIONS BEHIND HUGE INCREASES IN PRODUCTIVITY FOR TWO LARGE EU COSMETICS AND FOOD INGREDIENT MANUFACTURERS

Most production and process engineers in the UK would love to know the detail behind how Beiersdorf (Nivea) and Symrise – one of the world’s largest producers of fragrance, flavours and bulk ingredients – added a substantial amount to their bottom line profitability without any outlay on new machinery. A number of experienced process automation…

NEW LOW COST EASY-TO-USE POWER MONITORING SYSTEM PROVIDES FLEXIBLE, CENTRALISED PLATFORM FOR MAJOR ENERGY SAVING

Products 4 Automation has launched a new, low cost, highly flexible power monitoring system that can be easily programmed to collect data from external devices, providing centralised monitoring of all types of energy- intensive operations in industry and commerce, to determine areas where savings can be achieved. Easy to install and operate, the power monitoring…

P4AS MOVICON BUILDING AUTOMATION SOFTWARE THE OPEN, FLEXIBLE & LOW COST WAY TO CUT FACILITIES MANAGEMENT COSTS

Products 4 Automation’s Movicon™ BA Building Automation software is the 21st century solution to cutting building operating costs, and to providing facilities managers with the benefits of centralised monitoring of their real estate assets. Offering all the open benefits of an XML- based solution, Movicon BA is an all-in-one, powerful, visualisation and control software that…