AVEVA (Schneider Electric) Case Studies A Comprehensive Plant Solution for the Production of Coated Abrasives

	A Comprehensive Plant Solution for the Production of Coated Abrasives AVEVA (Schneider Electric)

A Comprehensive Plant Solution for the Production of Coated Abrasives

AVEVA (Schneider Electric)

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries	Chemicals
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation Predictive Quality Analytics
Services	System Integration Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	sia Abrasives Industries AG, one of the world's leading manufacturers of coated abrasives, was facing challenges with its outdated and inconsistent systems. The lack of connection between the controls of the individual production units made the planning of various production processes and the management of the machines' setup highly laborious and inefficient. Moreover, manufacturing data was administered via different, non-compatible systems, leading to errors caused by media conversions. As process data accumulated locally, significant efforts had to be made for consistent quality control due to the lack of a common database. The company decided to introduce an extensive automation solution that facilitates production control and reporting. Read More
About Customer	sia Abrasives Industries AG is one of the world's leading manufacturers of coated abrasives. The company offers a product range of several thousand items that are subject to continuous improvement. The coated abrasives produced at Frauenfeld are made up of a carrier material, such as paper, tissue, vulcanized fiber or plastic film. Through a continuous process, abrasive grains are applied to the backing and anchored by bonding adhesives. sia Abrasives products are distributed worldwide and are used in metalworking, woodworking, automotive bodywork and panel production. The company employs approximately 1,100 people worldwide, 690 of which work in Frauenfeld. In 2007, the business volume reached 298 million CHF, and great attention is being paid to the performance and efficiency of the enterprise. Read More
Solution	sia Abrasives decided to entrust the challenge to Wonderware software and acs ag, a system integrator from Wil, Switzerland. The implementation began in 2003 with the final goal of creating a paperless solution that connected the plant floor to the production planning and control (PPC) system. All plant information is now stored centrally through a Wonderware Historian. Thanks to this high-performance real-time database, the information from the control system used for planning and reporting is available to all work stations, based on the different roles and authorization of the personnel. The Wonderware Manufacturing Execution Module and the open interfaces provided by Wonderware software enables the standardization of data flow. The solution enables production orders to be centrally dispatched via a PPC work station. At any time, it is possible to check and supervise the status of batches in the various process steps and the plant floor is constantly updated with real-time production order information. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Chemicals

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Predictive Quality Analytics

Services

System Integration

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

sia Abrasives Industries AG, one of the world's leading manufacturers of coated abrasives, was facing challenges with its outdated and inconsistent systems. The lack of connection between the controls of the individual production units made the planning of various production processes and the management of the machines' setup highly laborious and inefficient. Moreover, manufacturing data was administered via different, non-compatible systems, leading to errors caused by media conversions. As process data accumulated locally, significant efforts had to be made for consistent quality control due to the lack of a common database. The company decided to introduce an extensive automation solution that facilitates production control and reporting.

About Customer

sia Abrasives Industries AG is one of the world's leading manufacturers of coated abrasives. The company offers a product range of several thousand items that are subject to continuous improvement. The coated abrasives produced at Frauenfeld are made up of a carrier material, such as paper, tissue, vulcanized fiber or plastic film. Through a continuous process, abrasive grains are applied to the backing and anchored by bonding adhesives. sia Abrasives products are distributed worldwide and are used in metalworking, woodworking, automotive bodywork and panel production. The company employs approximately 1,100 people worldwide, 690 of which work in Frauenfeld. In 2007, the business volume reached 298 million CHF, and great attention is being paid to the performance and efficiency of the enterprise.

Solution

sia Abrasives decided to entrust the challenge to Wonderware software and acs ag, a system integrator from Wil, Switzerland. The implementation began in 2003 with the final goal of creating a paperless solution that connected the plant floor to the production planning and control (PPC) system. All plant information is now stored centrally through a Wonderware Historian. Thanks to this high-performance real-time database, the information from the control system used for planning and reporting is available to all work stations, based on the different roles and authorization of the personnel. The Wonderware Manufacturing Execution Module and the open interfaces provided by Wonderware software enables the standardization of data flow. The solution enables production orders to be centrally dispatched via a PPC work station. At any time, it is possible to check and supervise the status of batches in the various process steps and the plant floor is constantly updated with real-time production order information.

Impact #1	Unified dataflow
Impact #2	Elimination of paper records
Impact #3	Higher product quality and work simplification

Impact #1

Unified dataflow

Impact #2

Elimination of paper records

Impact #3

Higher product quality and work simplification

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A Comprehensive Plant Solution for the Production of Coated Abrasives

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