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	Customer Success Story: KHS Maschinen ICONICS

Customer Success Story: KHS Maschinen

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation Process Control & Optimization
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	KHS Maschinen, a market leader in the deployment of Aseptic Cold Filling (ACF) applications for the beverage market, was looking for a solution to control its applications and machines and to visualize the entire ACF process. The ACF process allows for fruit juices to be filled into PET bottles at a temperature of only 68 Deg F (20°C), eliminating the need for preservatives and improving product quality. However, this process required a sophisticated solution for scalability, graphic capabilities, and modularity for machine control and visualization. Read More
About Customer	KHS Maschinen is a market leader in the deployment of Aseptic Cold Filling (ACF) applications for the beverage market. The company is headquartered in Dortmund, Germany, and offers the highest level of competence as an international full-service provider in planning, deploying, and maintaining filling and packaging applications for the food and beverage industries. In 2003, KHS generated revenue of 700 million Euros with 3,200 employees around the world. One of its clients, Eckes-Granini Deutschland GmbH, is a market leader in Europe in the fruit juice market. At its facilities in Bad Fallingbostel, Germany, Eckes-Granini successfully deployed an innovative aseptic cold filling application by KHS. Read More
Solution	KHS standardized on GENESIS32™ to control its applications and machines and to visualize the entire ACF process. The GENESIS32 Software Suite met KHS’ sophisticated needs for scalability, graphic capabilities, and modularity for machine control and visualization. GENESIS32 communicates via OPC and Profibus to a Siemens S7 PLC and I/O running on the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. GENESIS32 also offers an excellent international language switching technology. Graphic symbols, as well as trend and alarm applications, can be created once and reused all over the world, resulting in tremendous savings in areas of applications engineering and support. Another major advantage of GENESIS32 is its integration in today’s IT environments. Using GenBroker™, OPC and SOAP/XML communications technology makes it easy to connect and visualize processes in existing IT structures. Also, accessing enterprise-wide databases is essential when analyzing historical production and business data. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Process Control & Optimization

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

KHS Maschinen, a market leader in the deployment of Aseptic Cold Filling (ACF) applications for the beverage market, was looking for a solution to control its applications and machines and to visualize the entire ACF process. The ACF process allows for fruit juices to be filled into PET bottles at a temperature of only 68 Deg F (20°C), eliminating the need for preservatives and improving product quality. However, this process required a sophisticated solution for scalability, graphic capabilities, and modularity for machine control and visualization.

About Customer

KHS Maschinen is a market leader in the deployment of Aseptic Cold Filling (ACF) applications for the beverage market. The company is headquartered in Dortmund, Germany, and offers the highest level of competence as an international full-service provider in planning, deploying, and maintaining filling and packaging applications for the food and beverage industries. In 2003, KHS generated revenue of 700 million Euros with 3,200 employees around the world. One of its clients, Eckes-Granini Deutschland GmbH, is a market leader in Europe in the fruit juice market. At its facilities in Bad Fallingbostel, Germany, Eckes-Granini successfully deployed an innovative aseptic cold filling application by KHS.

Solution

KHS standardized on GENESIS32™ to control its applications and machines and to visualize the entire ACF process. The GENESIS32 Software Suite met KHS’ sophisticated needs for scalability, graphic capabilities, and modularity for machine control and visualization. GENESIS32 communicates via OPC and Profibus to a Siemens S7 PLC and I/O running on the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. GENESIS32 also offers an excellent international language switching technology. Graphic symbols, as well as trend and alarm applications, can be created once and reused all over the world, resulting in tremendous savings in areas of applications engineering and support. Another major advantage of GENESIS32 is its integration in today’s IT environments. Using GenBroker™, OPC and SOAP/XML communications technology makes it easy to connect and visualize processes in existing IT structures. Also, accessing enterprise-wide databases is essential when analyzing historical production and business data.

Impact #1	Improved product quality by eliminating the need for preservatives in the ACF process.
Impact #2	Increased scalability, graphic capabilities, and modularity for machine control and visualization.
Impact #3	Enhanced integration with existing IT structures.

Impact #1

Improved product quality by eliminating the need for preservatives in the ACF process.

Impact #2

Increased scalability, graphic capabilities, and modularity for machine control and visualization.

Impact #3

Enhanced integration with existing IT structures.

Benefit #1	Generated revenue of 700 million Euros in 2003.
Benefit #2	Saved significant resources in areas of applications engineering and support by reusing graphic symbols and trend and alarm applications.

Benefit #1

Generated revenue of 700 million Euros in 2003.

Benefit #2

Saved significant resources in areas of applications engineering and support by reusing graphic symbols and trend and alarm applications.

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Customer Success Story: KHS Maschinen

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