Industrial automation is a critical component of the modern industrial landscape, especially in the era of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. One of the primary challenges that automation addresses is enhancing efficiency by reducing the time and resources required for complex manufacturing processes. Additionally, it can also enhance product quality, improve worker safety, and enable businesses to scale their operations more effectively. With Industry 4.0 and digital transformation, automation is becoming increasingly important as it enables manufacturers to capture critical process data and integrate their operations with cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning, advanced analytics, and the Industrial Internet of
Things (IIoT). This integration not only improves efficiency but also enables businesses to collect and analyze data in real-time, leading to more informed decision-making and increased agility in response to changing market conditions.
Omnicon stands ready to provide innovative and customized solutions to serve your automation needs with specific emphasis on optimizing your existing systems, implementing control system upgrades, going beyond smaller-scale needs to include large-scale improvements, enhancing automation processes for batch executions and supporting OEMs as they develop refined techniques and approaches.
Industrial automation is a critical component of the modern industrial landscape, especially in the era of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. One of the primary challenges that automation addresses is enhancing efficiency by reducing the time and resources required for complex manufacturing processes. Additionally, it can also enhance product quality, improve worker safety, and enable businesses to scale their operations more effectively. With Industry 4.0 and digital transformation, automation is becoming increasingly important as it enables manufacturers to capture critical process data and integrate their operations with cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning, advanced analytics, and the Industrial Internet of
Things (IIoT). This integration not only improves efficiency but also enables businesses to collect and analyze data in real-time, leading to more informed decision-making and increased agility in response to changing market conditions.
Omnicon stands ready to provide innovative and customized solutions to serve your automation needs with specific emphasis on optimizing your existing systems, implementing control system upgrades, going beyond smaller-scale needs to include large-scale improvements, enhancing automation processes for batch executions and supporting OEMs as they develop refined techniques and approaches.
“Businesses can achieve growth and competitiveness by either increasing sales volume or improving operating margins. However, focusing on only one of these strategies can limit opportunities for growth. To achieve sustained success, businesses can optimize operational performance through automation projects, which can lead to cost savings and higher profitability”
A process automation system upgrade is the migration of a legacy or installed control system to a new one while minimizing the impact on operations and costs, leveraging the capabilities of the new system and preserving as much of the intellectual properties as possible from the legacy system.
Our proven experience in the engineering of automation upgrade solutions is based on industry standards and best practices. This basis helps define the best courses of action to minimize downtime for the upgrade, promote successful implementation of new technologies, and train operations and maintenance personnel on new control systems.
Specifically, our approach to automation depends on your production needs and their application. We help our clients with:
A process automation system upgrade is the migration of a legacy or installed control system to a new one while minimizing the impact on operations and costs, leveraging the capabilities of the new system and preserving as much of the intellectual properties as possible from the legacy system.
Our proven experience in the engineering of automation upgrade solutions is based on industry standards and best practices. This basis helps define the best courses of action to minimize downtime for the upgrade, promote successful implementation of new technologies, and train operations and maintenance personnel on new control systems.
Specifically, our approach to automation depends on your production needs and their application. We help our clients with:
To achieve efficient production while maintaining high standards of quality, it is crucial to have excellent automation and controls engineering in place for both new and existing manufacturing facilities when undertaking projects that require scaling in scope.
For large-scale automation, our end-to-end approach enables us to deliver value to clients and offer an integral automation assessment to determine your own readiness for developing a large-scale project. For greenfield projects we build a business case upon specific requirements, based on industry standards and best practices. This includes automation designs in compliance with device, control, and business systems integration. For brownfield projects we create a roadmap to meet critical objectives and project deadlines to minimize operational impacts, while also providing assessment and planning for risk mitigation.
Our service for large-scale automation includes:
To achieve efficient production while maintaining high standards of quality, it is crucial to have excellent automation and controls engineering in place for both new and existing manufacturing facilities when undertaking projects that require scaling in scope.
For large-scale automation, our end-to-end approach enables us to deliver value to clients and offer an integral automation assessment to determine your own readiness for developing a large-scale project. For greenfield projects we build a business case upon specific requirements, based on industry standards and best practices. This includes automation designs in compliance with device, control, and business systems integration. For brownfield projects we create a roadmap to meet critical objectives and project deadlines to minimize operational impacts, while also providing assessment and planning for risk mitigation.
Our service for large-scale automation includes:
Many industrial firms engaged in batch processing and operations exert enormous efforts to manage multi-stream and multi-product batch operations.
There is much variability between different production batches, with top-quality batches produced by experienced operators. There is undoubtedly a need for batch processors to integrate the highest degree of automation that will improve their efficiency as well as their yield and production results.
Omnicon assists clients with batch execution with value-added services that:
Many industrial firms engaged in batch processing and operations exert enormous efforts to manage multi-stream and multi-product batch operations.
There is much variability between different production batches, with top-quality batches produced by experienced operators. There is undoubtedly a need for batch processors to integrate the highest degree of automation that will improve their efficiency as well as their yield and production results.
Omnicon assists clients with batch execution with value-added services that:
Today’s OEMs face numerous challenges as they work to incorporate new technologies and participate in Industry 4.0 trends. For example, many OEMs struggle to integrate the latest automation technologies into their new or existing equipment. This can be a time-consuming and costly process and can also require specialized knowledge and expertise in automation and controls that many Equipment Manufacturers may not have in-house. In addition, OEMs are under increasing pressure to maintain flexibility, efficiency, and competitiveness while still meeting high standards for quality and accelerating time to market
Considering all of this, machinery functions must comply with business requirements, though they may not always integrate smoothly with existing processes and legacy technology. Today’s OEM can’t go it alone and needs help to manage and balance the many different dynamics of our globally competitive environment for the packaged solutions they provide.
Omnicon automation solutions are widely used to assist process OEMs. Our services include:
Today’s OEMs face numerous challenges as they work to incorporate new technologies and participate in Industry 4.0 trends. For example, many OEMs struggle to integrate the latest automation technologies into their new or existing equipment. This can be a time-consuming and costly process and can also require specialized knowledge and expertise in automation and controls that many Equipment Manufacturers may not have in-house. In addition, OEMs are under increasing pressure to maintain flexibility, efficiency, and competitiveness while still meeting high standards for quality and accelerating time to market
Considering all of this, machinery functions must comply with business requirements, though they may not always integrate smoothly with existing processes and legacy technology. Today’s OEM can’t go it alone and needs help to manage and balance the many different dynamics of our globally competitive environment for the packaged solutions they provide.
Omnicon automation solutions are widely used to assist process OEMs. Our services include:
Automation engineering helps develop your automation footprint and helps deliver future profitable business advantages and benefits in the manufacturing environment including:
Improving overall efficient production performance.
Creating flexibility by enabling the same equipment available at site to empower capabilities based on ISA-88 standard.
Producing cost savings and risk mitigation by having a single partner to engineer and manage automation design and development.
Helping material traceability and batch performance reporting, providing insights for better decision making to impact business goals.
Improving delivery times while promoting efficient utilization of invested assets and maximizing return on capital.
Reducing time-to-market across different automation applications and dealing with multi-streams of products.
Using technologies that comply with project requirements and are aligned with business objectives.
Helping achieve consistency throughout the process or operation (especially for batch executions), regardless of equipment or material constraints. This reduces scrap and rework.
Enabling plant-to-business integration through an integrated architecture setting the foundations for scalability, interoperability and digital transformation.
Reducing maintenance cost associated with spare parts or replacement for machinery and process control systems.
Promoting standardization of the plant automation systems with best-in-class automation.
Lowering engineering costs and development times for many different business lines, especially for OEMs.
Automation engineering helps develop your automation footprint and helps deliver future profitable business advantages and benefits in the manufacturing environment including:
Improving overall efficient production performance.
Creating flexibility by enabling the same equipment available at site to empower capabilities based on ISA-88 standard.
Producing cost savings and risk mitigation by having a single partner to engineer and manage automation design and development.
Helping material traceability and batch performance reporting, providing insights for better decision making to impact business goals.
Improving delivery times while promoting efficient utilization of invested assets and maximizing return on capital.
Reducing time-to-market across different automation applications and dealing with multi-streams of products.
Using technologies that comply with project requirements and are aligned with business objectives.
Helping achieve consistency throughout the process or operation (especially for batch executions), regardless of equipment or material constraints. This reduces scrap and rework.
Enabling plant-to-business integration through an integrated architecture setting the foundations for scalability, interoperability and digital transformation.
Reducing maintenance cost associated with spare parts or replacement for machinery and process control systems.
Promoting standardization of the plant automation systems with best-in-class automation.
Lowering engineering costs and development times for many different business lines, especially for OEMs.
Large, successful companies are taking their automation to new levels. From the use of digital twins, to the use of big data and advanced analytics. The possible use cases that technology offers today based on information, intelligence, and connected systems are varied and futuristic. We have not yet finished discovering all the possible use cases that will be available in the short term. You have to ask yourself:
• Is the information I have at hand today reliable?
• How do I get it?
• Can I get it faster?
• Can I know what is going on in the business across a region?
• Or worldwide?
• Can I compare processes between similar plants?
• Can I rely on the information I have to predict behaviors of important variables for the business?
• Can I rely on the information in the systems?
The answer to all of the above is YES! On the other hand, if we were to ask ourselves: Does my company have all of the above? The answer is most likely “not yet”; but these opportunities are available due to the constant technological advances that are presented daily.
If you wish to learn more about our automation services or how we can help with your next industrial automation project, contact us!
Large, successful companies are taking their automation to new levels. From the use of digital twins, to the use of big data and advanced analytics. The possible use cases that technology offers today based on information, intelligence, and connected systems are varied and futuristic. We have not yet finished discovering all the possible use cases that will be available in the short term. You have to ask yourself:
• Is the information I have at hand today reliable?
• How do I get it?
• Can I get it faster?
• Can I know what is going on in the business across a region?
• Or worldwide?
• Can I compare processes between similar plants?
• Can I rely on the information I have to predict behaviors of important variables for the business?
• Can I rely on the information in the systems?
The answer to all of the above is YES! On the other hand, if we were to ask ourselves: Does my company have all of the above? The answer is most likely “not yet”; but these opportunities are available due to the constant technological advances that are presented daily.
If you wish to learn more about our automation services or how we can help with your next industrial automation project, contact us!
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