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Manufacturing Control

Structured approach, timely delivery, sustainable cooperation

Adapting and optimizing your production

Whether it’s small adjustments or developing completely new production lines: Contec has got you covered. We help you to continuously adapt and optimize your production floor, also on PLC and SCADA level.

Tight deadlines? Rest assured. With our structured project approach, we keep downtime to a minimum. After all, we feel right at home in the process industry. Transparency, efficiency and respect for your budget are the key to our – and your – success.

It all starts with a correct functional description (FDS). We then test the improvements together with you on a simulation platform (FAT), without affecting production. Next, SAT and commissioning happen on a running installation. If a standstill is necessary, we keep it to a minimum thanks to the fine-tuning in the simulation. For larger modifications, we work in phases and have fall-back scenarios. Throughout the project, we also take care of all technical documentation. All to make your production work better than ever.

Technologies & standards

Technologies

  • Rockwell
  • Siemens
  • Schneider
  • AVEVA – Wonderware
  • MiR
  • ABB
  • Honeywell
  • Mitsubishi
  • Omron
  • Beckhoff
  • Ignition

Standards

  • PlantPax
  • PackML
  • APL
  • EDTI
  • Customer-specific standards
  • Customized standards

Areas of expertise

In-house programming standards

Our programming standards are the essential guidelines that ensure consistency, quality and maintainability of code. We generally use your libraries for PLCs and HMIs, as these are familiar to your operators and engineers, or those of the manufacturers.

Process control

Contec’s specialists provide you with top-tier industrial automation solutions. We ensure that your systems are robust, flexible and scalable to meet the dynamic needs of modern manufacturing. Enhancing efficiency and ensuring compliance with industry standards: that’s how our solutions drive your processes forward.

  • ISA 88 – batch applications
  • MTP – Modular Type Package
  • Continuous processes

Control systems (DCS/PLC/SCADA)

We work with proven technology and design transparent system architectures to keep your operations efficient and secure. Combined with thorough testing, this ensures maximum continuity. Safety, redundancy, monitoring, smart notifications, and user-friendly controls are equally critical to reliable processes.

  • Secure, reliable, and transparent system architectures
  • Proven technology
  • Integrated safety
  • Redundancy
  • Data historians
  • Smart alarms and notifications
  • Advanced and predictive process control
  • Intuitive (mobile) operator HMI
  • Industrial IT stack delivery

Contec Packing Integration Platform (CPIP)

CPIP is a PLC/HMI platform specifically developed for integrating packing lines. It is geared to integrate both PackML and non PackML machines. As to recipe management, it supports both regular and sequential changeovers, resulting in higher efficiency. The system also allows for automated or easy manual process order entry and effortless integration of QA solutions.

  • PackML
  • Recipe management
  • Sequential changeovers
  • Machine setting/formulation
  • QA device management and integration

Line supply and logistics

  • WHS system interfacing
  • Line supply delivery
  • Line take away
  • Product customization/manipulation/tools/solutions
  • AMR
  • …

QA management solutions

QA compliance and product quality control are critical parts of your business. With CPIP integration, vision systems, checkweighers, printers and other monitoring systems, we help you deliver high-quality batches—time and again.

  • CPIP quality integration
  • Vision applications
  • Checkweighers
  • Printers
  • QA inline process controls
  • QMS integration

Digital twin and process simulation

As virtual replicas of your facilities, digital twins help optimize production, improve decision-making and increase operational efficiency. They allow for real-time monitoring and simulation of production processes, enabling predictive maintenance, better quality control and more efficient use of resources.

Motion control

Optimize your production with seamless motion control integration. Our solutions synchronize machine settings, automate precise adjustments, and ensure smooth communication across all equipment—minimizing waste and maximizing efficiency. With intelligent software upgrades and real-time control, we enhance speed, accuracy, and reliability.

  • Packing machinery
  • Converter controls

Site assessments and migration proposals

Storing and handling data on your installed base is critical for ensuring efficient operations, informed decision-making, and continuous improvement. That’s why we start collecting data at PLC level, making it available wherever you need. In addition, we directly integrate the necessary safety functions into your control systems. Finally, we help you ensure that everyone receives timely and relevant notifications about abnormal conditions, equipment failures or process deviations.

  • Data storage and handling
  • Process and machine safety and CE compliance
  • Alarm management

Deliver UNS in IoT industrial architecture

Our PLC-driven data acquisition ensures real-time collection of critical production metrics, from machine status to quality control. Using secure communication protocols like MQTT and OPC-UA, we seamlessly transmit and integrate this data into the Unified Name Space (UNS) for Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM). With a strong focus on cybersecurity, we safeguard your data while enabling smarter, more efficient decision-making.

Cases

New refuelling park

Contec was tasked with designing and supplying the electrical and automation systems for a new tank farm dedicated to acid storage. The acid product is unloaded from barges and loaded onto transport HGVs and ships. There was a strong emphasis on safety.

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