Schweppes Australia chooses the ATS/ Siemens SIMATIC IT Filling & Packaging Solution

News July 2009 Schweppes Australia chooses the ATS/ Siemens SIMATIC IT Filling & Packaging Solution Schweppes Australia has decided recently to implement the ATS filling & packaging solution based on Siemens’ SIMATIC IT. This solution was developed in close collaboration between ATS, a SIMATIC IT Specialist Partner and a global solution provider in the MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) area and the Siemens MES teams for Carlsberg. This solution is now available “out of the box” to the general filling and packaging market. The new order from Schweppes will be initially implemented across 3 sites in Australia. The business case Schweppes selected the Siemens/ATS Filling & Packaging solution not only due to the ‘out of the box’ approach, but also due to the repeatability and the sustainability of the solution, that has a positive effect on Total Cost of Ownership. This solution enables Schweppes to respond quicker to market demands while at the same time being able to reduce manufacturing costs, providing them with a clear competitive advantage – and a short ROI-time. Other important Siemens / ATS capabilities that positively influenced this decision were the full SAP integration capabilities (based on standard templates), the full integration to the automation layer, as well as full manufacturing intelligence functionality, supporting Lean, Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement processes. Mike James, Group Managing Director at ATS and a member of the MESA Europe Board of Directors made some interesting comments about this order. “Traditionally MES solutions require significant integration effort. By developing a solution based upon the Siemens Simatic IT MES product ATS has taken advantage of the industry libraries available within the product. Even with the standard software products on the market most MES implementations require considerable configuration which increases the cost of the implementation. The return on investment is adversely affected when costs increase. By creating a repeatable and supportable solution we can ensure that 80% of the customers’ requirements are met, in the majority of cases the out of the box approach works perfectly following the classic 80/20 rule. Schweppes have recognised this and are taking a strong business approach to gain rapid business development from our filling and packaging solution”. Dwaine Febey, Schweppes National CSMS & Best Practice Manager led the selection process and is responsible for the implementation. “We had been looking at and even experimenting with a number of different software products. After some disappointing results we started looking around and accepted an invitation to an ATS Siemens Breakfast Seminar. Even during the seminar we started ticking off some of the boxes. It was obvious these guys knew what they were doing, had in fact done it before and were the first to give us a live demo. As we had never used ATS or Siemens before we decided on a vigorous selection process and invited several companies to bid. Once we had a short list we visited reference sites and our initial impressions were confirmed. We visited some existing users, carried out our usual checks and found throughout the process that ATS and Siemens were highly responsive, clearly wanted our business and have a size and confidence we can trust. The organisations are big enough to be able to draw on expertise within their organisations which we reckon will help to give Schweppes a real competitive advantage for years to come.” During the last few years Siemens has been developing an MES strategy which includes the development of industry specific solutions. Industry libraries are applications developed using the SIMATIC IT (MES) platform. The library components are reusable and can be integrated to form a News Release Page 1 von 2 News Release July 2009 complete solution that could be called a “factory out of the box”. This principle significantly reduces the amount of time required to configure and implement an MES solution. Other elements of the total solution include the SIMATIC IT R&D and Quality modules so that full integration can be achieved. Siemens is committed to working with accredited partners with a wide range of skills in the MES arena, as well as domain expertise in ERP, Execution and Controls level integration. ATS is one of these partners and offers the bonus of a global roll out capability, an essential asset in today’s connected world. The technical case The functional design follows the ISA-95 Manufacturing Execution Systems standard and includes: • Order handling of SAP downloaded orders: o Real-time Planning overview of SAP orders; o Tracking of order progress per workstation on the packaging lines; o Creation of manual orders to run independently from SAP ; • Master Data interfaced with SAP, e.g. for packaging material requirements; • Downtime management: o Downtime is logged via integration with the PLC’s and SCADA for the Packaging lines; o Automatic assignment of Micro Stop reason for stops less then 60 sec; o Downtimes reasons are logged to a detailed level on failures on equipment level; o Detailed downtime performance and analysis reporting via 12 standard reports with multiple data-filtering options; • Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) standard reporting via automatically captured order, downtime and loss data when running orders on the packaging lines. The reports also provide local KPI reporting for supporting Lean initiatives. KPI reports currently available are: o Process Orders o Shift Summary o Article o Utilisation o Line Efficiency o Total Capacity Utilisation o Waiting for Beverages o Can/ Bottle Losses o Scorecard In October/November, ATS and Siemens will arrange a MES World Tour in SIMATIC IT Partner countries. The Filling and Packaging Solution will be shown live. The Siemens and ATS Websites will soon provide more information about dates and locations. The first event of the World Tour in any case is planned for August, 19th, in Philadelphia USA. Page 2 of 2