AVEVA (Schneider Electric)

Coco Cola Swaziland, South Africa would like to find a solution that would enable the following results: - Reduce energy consumption by 20% in one year. - Formulate a series of strategic initiatives that would enlist the commitment of corporate management and create employee awareness while helping meet departmental targets and investing in tools that assist with energy management. - Formulate a series of tactical initiatives that would optimize energy usage on the shop floor. These would include charging forklifts and running cold rooms only during off-peak periods, running the dust extractors only during working hours and basing lights and air-conditioning on someone’s presence. - Increase visibility into the factory and other processes. - Enable limited, non-intrusive control functions for certain processes.

Ascend operations must access multiple software systems to manage day-to-day operations in an effective and secure manner. These systems generate large sets of data which contain critical information pertaining to management systems, planning and cost information in business systems and energy consumption. As a result, Ascend management was challenged with creating relevant reports reflecting performance measures in overall context of their operational process. The company’s previous process entailed collecting and analyzing data manually which was not effective, since the information collected was generated after the fact, and was too complex for collaborative use across the organization.

- Avoid asset failures and reduce equipment downtime - Identify subtle changes in system and equipment behavior - Gain advanced warning of emerging equipment issues - Monitor the health and performance of critical assets fleet-wide in real time - Improve maintenance planning y Enable knowledge capture to optimize information sharing between plant personnels

Founded in 1983, Advantech is a leader in providing trusted innovative embedded and automation products and solutions. Advantech offers comprehensive system integration, hardware, software, customer-centric design services, and global logistics support; all backed by industry-leading front and back office e-business solutions.

Adroit Technologies is a privately held software development company that has been developing award winning real-time software for the industrial automation markets for over 25 years. The principal activities of the company are product development, consulting and solutions development, primarily in the industrial sector. Year founded: 1989 Revenue: $11 - 100 million (2014 est.)

Opentrends provides the most advanced custom software solutions to place companies in the Digital Transformation path, allowing them to achieve innovation advantage and contribute to their growth acceleration.More than 18 years delivering innovative projects of high technological complexity in a wide range of industries, while guaranteeing quality and alignment with our client’s objectives. In fact, over a hundred global companies across various industries have full Trust in our unique ability to design, build, implement, and integrate complex software innovations into their organizations.Let’s excel your digital future today.

ICONICS is an award-winning independent software developer offering real-time visualization, HMI/SCADA, manufacturing intelligence and a suite of analytics solutions for operational excellence. ICONICS products are used in building automation, renewable energy, utilities, water/wastewater, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, automotive and many other manufacturing applications. ICONICS is proud to be the reigning Microsoft Sustainability Partner of the Year, which recognizes innovations built on the Microsoft platform that help people, organizations, and cities around the world reduce their impact on the environment. ICONICS cultivates an international culture of innovation, creativity and excellence in product design, development, technical support, sales and service. The company is headquartered in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and has offices throughout the United States and in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Australia, Czech Republic, China, Italy, India, France and Germany, with over 50 percent of its sales coming from its international operations.

Founded in 1993, HollySys is a leading automation and IT solutions provider with more than 60 representative offices across Asia Pacific and other regions. HollySys specializes in Industrial Automation, Railway Transport Automation and Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) Solutions. Our mission ‘Automation for Better Life’ shapes our decades of engineering experiences to empower our customers with enhanced operational safety, reliability, efficiency, and intelligence which value adds to their businesses.The Company's business segments are industrial automation, rail transportation, mechanical and electrical solutions, and miscellaneous.The Company's technologies are applied through its industrial automation solution suite, including the Distributed Control System (DCS), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Real-time Management Information System (RMIS), HolliAS Asset Management System (HAMS), Operator Training System (OTS), HolliAS BATCH (Batch Application Package), HolliAS Advanced Process Control Package (APC Suite), Safety Instrumentation System (SIS), high-speed railway signaling system of Train Control Center (TCC), Automatic Train Protection (ATP), Subway Supervisory and Control platform, nuclear power non-safety automation and control system HolliAs-NMS DCS, and other products.