Automation Today - 2-2007
Welcome to this edition of Automation Today
Overall Equipment Effectiveness
The speed of change in the manufacturing industry is one that affects all our working lives. In some research we recently commissioned, Production Managers identified customer demand as the number one business pressure they had to respond to but listed “Cost Reduction, Performance Improvement and Quality” respectively as the urgent internal day-to-day priorities.
In this issue you will read how various industry sectors are meeting these challenges through implementing the latest automation technologies to ensure critical information is at the fingertips of staff whether in the boardroom or on the factory floor.
This issue of Automation Today features how a major pharmaceutical company raised its overall equipment effectiveness by refining its production line; shows how a machine builder reduced the timescales of a new build and how an OEM helped to increase the productivity of its customer to more than 3m waffles a day.
Rockwell Automation continues to work to ensure we are constantly meeting the industry and market needs within this ever changing environment.
As part of our on-going commitment to our customers, I’m pleased to inform you that Rockwell Automation has recently opened a new manufacturing, software R&D and customer services facility in Poland. This will allow us to better serve our customers across the region.
As the speed of manufacturing continues apace, I hope you find this issue useful.
Jordi Andreu
President – EMEA Region
Rockwell Automation
in this issue:
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| Latest News announced in Automation Today 2-2007 • Collaboration aims to integrate manufacturing and IT • Strategic Alliance with Endress+Hauser • The right event for you… • Study endorses integration | Continually improving performance However productive a machine, your customers will always want it to be faster, smaller and more flexible | |
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| Scaleable visualisation solution As well as connectability and modularity, scalability is one of the most important facets for any design engineer to embrace | The Fundamentals of EtherNet/IP What is it about this protocol that has seen mass adoption across so many markets? | |
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| Raising overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) When a major European pharmaceutical manufacturer wanted to refine its production line it turned to us to help it implement a new Line Monitoring and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) solution | Truly integrated safety… Refined safety legislation and new developments in technology have opened up a tantalising possibility in safety network implementation | |
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| Three million waffles a day Automatic and semi-automatic cooking lines take advantage of new technology | Medium voltage – high popularity With potential energy savings of 30-35%, lower cost of ownership and greatly improved reliability, medium voltage (MV) AC drives are showing a sharp growth in popularity | |
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| Medium-voltage power savings Using the PowerFlex 7000 Direct-to-Drive technology, Fluxys LNG achieved a 37% reduction of energy expenditure on its high-pressure pumps | Website tools help simplify design, configuration and installation A new web site provides a valuable collection of resources and information about our Integrated Architecture | |
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| Batch production helps company clean up Cleaning product manufacturer takes advantage of the best automation systems available today | ||
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