When GIMA Spa, a pioneering company among system manufacturers in the “Packaging Valley” region of Bologna in Italy, was asked by WRIGLEY, a world leader in confectionery manufacture, to provide a standardised supervisory system that would provide OEE data across all its different client product lines, the company turned to Progea’s Movicon 11 SCADA for…
The low cost, extended functionality and openness features of Progea Movicon 11 SCADA are proving a winning formula for control system specialist, Genesis Controls. The Birmingham-based systems integrator has already completed four successful projects using Movicon – ‘with many more in the pipeline’ – since the recent launch of the SCADA package in the UK…
Current MES systems only represent a preliminary stage of development toward the goal of intelligently controlled production processes, according to Paul Hurst of P4A, the UK distributor for FELTEN Production Intelligence software. “MES systems need to adopt a holistic and process-oriented approach,” says Hurst. “This represents an evolutionary advancement, one which releases production management from…
The power, functionality and flexibility of Products 4 Automation’s (P4A) WIN-911 alarm notification software have been greatly increased with the addition, on new Version V7.10, of Wonderware Archestra Direct Connect, plus a new 2-way SMS feature, and a new group Email function providing notification on a single alarm event. The introduction of Wonderware Archestra Direct…
>Recent project delivers savings of over 60% in licence costs< The people who really know about SCADA systems, the Systems Integrators who develop and install them, are warmly welcoming the launch of Progea Movicon 11 SCADA onto the UK market. “We already have a number of top system integrators using Movicon SCADA, after only a…
The concept of Business Intelligence (BI) has been bandied about by software companies for the past few years – and has come to mean many different things. However, the concept of Production Intelligence (PI) has been developed by specialist MES supplier FELTEN Group as a necessity. PI has been developed to help improve production efficiency…
Products 4 Automation in the UK is highlighting how its Progea Movicon 11 SCADA can provide complete across- the- board remote control of integrated water facilities over large areas, with real time visualisation, access and control, via Movicon’s WEB client. The project that illustrates these features was recently undertaken by the Acque S.p.A. Group, which…
Products 4 Automation’s Movicon™ SCADA is providing an open, flexible & low cost way to cut facilities management costs at the Leonardo Shopping Centre, near Rome, the biggest and most modern in Italy. The Movicon platform is delivering the benefits of centralised monitoring of assets to facilities managers at the Centre, enabling the integration and…
Products4Automation’s new PILOT OEE-Lite, from production intelligence specialist, FELTEN is a small, low cost, highly functional OEE module that enables organisations on limited budgets to monitor their production performance without having to spend excessive amounts on full MES solutions. The PILOT OEE-Lite enables users to benchmark and record a wide range of production data, analyse…
Over 30 UK systems integrators attended the first UK workshop for Progea Movicon SCADA held by Products4 Automation on 20th April at the National Motor Museum at Gaydon in Warwickshire. Attendees to the workshop were also treated to new product introductions from P4A, including the company’s highly innovative, low cost OEE-Lite module, which allows organisations…