Imagine that you have a major rise in market demand for your products and you can’t meet it! What do you do? Often modularity and flexibility win the day. That’s what this interesting case study from Maxa Air Conditioning shows when the company realized that their facilities were restricted by the existing heat-pump testing production line that consisted of two testing stations with a maximum throughput of only 19 units per shift.
In order to increase production capacity, Maxa needed to automate its heat-pump testing process and expand to add more testing stations. The solution also needed to be modular to improve efficiency and enable the plant to grow and scale for the future. Maxa succeeded in a big way by increasing test capacity to over 60 units per shift. They combined a PLC from Emerson and the Movicon.NExTTM software.
To learn how the company accomplished its goal in the case study here.
And visit the Movicon page to explore steps that your plant might take to increase production and efficiency.