In today’s competitive world, it is crucial for manufacturers to be dynamic, to innovate and to continuously monitor their production processes. Factory Automation & Control (A&C) solutions cover the automation of an entire manufacturing facility via the design and construction of a fully integrated and intelligent control system, requiring sensors, instruments, computers and the application of data processing.
Industrial automation deals primarily with the automation of manufacturing, quality control and material handling processes. Industrial automation solutions aim to reduce the reliance of companies on unreliable and error-prone manual processes on the production floor and replace them with command-response activities executed by mechanized equipment and logical programming commands. General purpose controllers for industrial processes include Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), stand-alone I/O modules and computers.
Engineering's leading Automation & Control Competence Center boasts a group of over 350 technology experts in locations across Italy, North America and South America, all specialized in the design, implementation, launch and support of A&C systems for both the manufacturing and non-manufacturing contexts. Our proven portfolio of solutions enables them to deliver integrated, comprehensive and specialized connectivity solutions, networks and digital ecosystems to customers worldwide. Our A&C offering supports the automation of tasks belonging to all level systems aligned to the international standards for the integration of enterprise IT and control systems (ANSI/ISA-95 and IEC/ISO 62264):
Automation & Control systems improve reliability, visibility and efficiency of manufacturing operations by reducing manual effort, optimizing people and machine productivity and enabling faster response to production changes.
+ Reduce labor and costs involved in manual operation of complex shop floor equipment
+ Drive more reliable shop floor processes
+ Improve process transparency and control
+ Optimize productivity of people and machines
+ Ensure equipment is operating at peak performance
+ Enable faster reaction to production changes
+ Optimize processes with minimized product variation
+ Reduce lead times
+ Facilitate continuous manufacturing workflow
+ Improve real-time visibility on the manufacturing floor
Factory Automation & Control is critical to manufacturing enterprises that aim to reduce production costs, increase throughput and maintain profitable and efficient operations. In order to achieve the continuous connectivity that Industry 4.0 demands, companies must leverage communication and control technologies to connect and synchronize all the moving parts within a factory – the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), all software and all hardware – in a way that enhances and improves the manufacturing process as a whole. This is the niche expertise of IndX world-class Automation & Control team.
