Jan 4, 2023
About DAB Pumps
For over 40 years, DAB Pumps has been a main player in the provision of innovative technologies for the movement and management of Earth’s most precious resource - water. DAB Pumps delivers high-performance technology solutions capable of ensuring reliable, efficient and optimized energy consumption in residential and commercial building services, agriculture and irrigation applications. With a commitment to sustainable and transparent production, flexible and customer-oriented service and the continuous development of its human resources, DAB Pumps is an industrial visionary that embraces the new challenges of digital technology and offers customers simple and effective solutions. Aligning with DAB Pump’s goal of continuous improvement and innovation, Engineering Group’s Industries eXcellence division has begun work on an exciting digitalization project for the water technology manufacturer.
- Energy & Utilities manufacturing
- High-performance water technology
- Residential and commercial building services
- Agriculture and irrigation
DAB’s Need
Dedicated to providing the highest quality products and services, DAB Pumps sought to equip their workforce with tools that would allow operational agility while maintaining and strengthening their goals of excellence. Their main drivers for this digitalization initiative were to improve efficiency, reduce waste and increase safety while supporting DAB’s operational excellence strategy, which aims to create a competitive advantage in terms of better customer service levels. Taking the first step on their digital transformation journey, DAB Pumps chose the Engineering Group’s Industries eXcellence division to implement software solutions that could support this optimization process.
- Improve manufacturing efficiency
- Reduce production waste
- Increase shop floor and product safety
- Improve customer service levels
About the Project
To begin the digitalization process, our Industries eXcellence specialists helped DAB Pumps implement an agile MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) framework to run various solutions and identify POCs (Proof of Concepts) that validate their KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). Once the results of the POCs were consolidated and the defined criteria in terms of MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) were met, the right solutions were fully implemented, and the improved product was released. This approach allowed DAB Pumps to test which solutions worked best for them and quickly identify and eliminate critical issues.
DAB Pumps has currently extended the use of MOM technology to their headquarters and begun the deployment of the new solutions to their plants in Hungary and Italy. Using an integration template designed by Industries eXcellence, DAB Pumps can now fully integrate both manual and automatic production lines. DAB Pump’s continuous improvement mentality drives them to develop what has already been implemented, testing new solutions and technologies provided by the Engineering Industries eXcellence team. Their next project goal is to extend the use of the new system to more production lines to cover all plants, prioritizing the most important value streams. In the future, DAB Pumps plans to utilize their new system and implement solutions for predictive maintenance, Track & Trace and AI (Artificial Intelligence) applied to process monitoring.
- Factory Automation & Control
- Manufacturing Execution Systems
- OEE & KPI Monitoring
- Asset Performance Management
- Shop Floor Integration
Engineering’s Advantage
The Engineering Group’s Industries eXcellence division was selected as the right partner to support DAB Pump’s digitalization initiative for a multitude of reasons. First, because we are one of the few technology companies working with the Energy & Utilities industry with both the technical software expertise and in-depth process knowledge needed to deliver the desired results. Next, the Engineering Group has the global presence and capabilities required to support the expansion of solutions to DAB’s other sites. Finally, we offer the end-to-end digital transformation vision that DAB Pumps is looking for in a long-term strategic Industry 4.0 partner. No matter what challenges were presented to our experts, Industries eXcellence was able to overcome and achieve project success. We continue to work with DAB as they advance along their digital transformation journey.
- Global presence and capabilities
- Technical MOM software knowledge
- Energy & Utilities process expertise
- End-to-end technology implementation experience
- Holistic solution portfolio and vision to support long-term transformation
