We have engineered hundreds of projects with values up to £500,000. Below are details of some of our upgrades:

EMP Belt Line for Kunshan, Jiangsu Province China. Design, supply, commission control system for a belt manufacturing machine. Fully integrated Siemens solution comprising PLC, SINAMICS Drives, WinCC, PROFISafe system (safety integrated PLC).

Lithographic Aluminium Strip Line for Zheng Zhou. Turnkey project for strip processing line, 14xSiemens AC SINAMICS Drives, Siemens PLC, SCADA, Servo drives, PROFISafe. Totally integrated package makes lithographic plate for use in the printing industry.

Paper coating machine. Design, supply, installation and commissioning of complete drive system retrofit to their paper coating line. 98xAC Vector Drives, 13xDC Section drives, 40A to 720A.

4x off Jagenberg Dual-roll rewinder. Complete control system upgrade for 4x Jagenberg dual-roll winders. Complete pneumatic, electrical and safety system upgrade on the machine. SSD DC Drives, Siemens S7-300 PLC, PILZ, PNOZ Multi Programmable safety.

Dual-roll MYLAR coater control system. Design, supply, commission on two-sided coater for MYLAR product, Siemens S7-400 PLC, Reliance Drives, Rockwell SCADA.

Dual-roll Tyvek coater control system. Design, supply, commision on dual-roll gravure coater, 4xAC Vector drives in load-share, flotation oven and floatation air-turn unit control, GE Fanuc PLC, Cimplicity SCADA, Siemens Drives (Micromaster, Masterdrives)

Process Line Ltd. Italy

Aluminium Strip Line for Verona Lastra Italy

Makes lithographic plate for use in the printing industry.

Process Line Ltd. South Africa

Aluminium Strip Line for First Graphics, South Africa.

Makes lithographic plate for use in the printing industry.

Crown Paints, Darwen

5x palletising line upgrades for paint tins/

News Siemens PLC control system for 5xpaint tin palletising lines.

Replaced obsolete Siemens SIMATIC 505/535 PLC.

Linpac Packaging, Yorkshire

Extruder 71 Control Panel Replacement.

Produces plastic film which is vacuum formed into containers for various foods.

Main extruder and melt pump replacement, Siemens PLC, SSD Drives solution.

CCL Decorative Sleeves

DCM Printing Press Modifications.

Design, supply and commissioning of a new drive system for their existing print machine.

FFP Packaging, Northampton

Wax Machine Line Drive System.

Design, supply and commissioning of a new DC drive system for their wax coating line.

Flexel International, Glenrothes, Scotland

New control system for a printing/laminating machine

Design, supply and commissioning of a new machine control system for manufacturing Ecofilm under-floor heating. Flexel International are one of the largest manufacturers of under-floor, ceiling and compact panel heating elements.

Kodak Ltd

Control System for Jagenberg machine.

High speed cutting line including rotary shear control system.

Aluminium Strip coating line control system.

Outokumpu Stainless Ltd.

Foil Annealing Line control system.

Including Wonderware SCADA package, GE Fanuc PLC, Parker SSD Drives.

Lawson Mardon Flexibles

Sciavi Printing Press Refit – Turnkey Package

DuPont Teijin Films Ltd, Wilton

Stenter Line Drive System – Turnkey Package

C Perkin Ltd.

Cardboard Tube Machine – High speed Siemens servo drive application.

Manufacturing cardboard tubes at linear material input speed of 100m/min.

Cloud-based data dashboards

Posted on September 16, 2022

If you want to see how your machine or process is operating day in day out from anywhere in the world, where do you start? With the increased risk of hacking of industrial devices becoming ever more prevalent Security Week – New Vulnerabilities Can Allow Hackers to Remotely Crash Siemens PLCs it’s not as simple as just hooking your PLC onto your local network.

An increasing number of companies are turning to remote cloud-based solutions for machine monitoring. Optima are pleased to offer the Cloud-based solution which keeps your automation hardware safely behind a secure firewall. Most of our clients prefer a SIM-card based system. The benefits of this system are that the equipment is always live whenever there is cellular reception available. Our range of antenna options mean that reception is possible even in the most remote locations.

The video below shows a basic demonstration dashboard. If you would like to know more then please get in touch – we like to talk!

This video gives a very brief demonstration on how our Remote Access and Cloud Logging System can help you keep track of how your machine is performing. See when the machine is started, stopped, realise production metric data straight to your mobile, desktop or tablet.

We have been trialling our remote machine data dashboards #iot #industry4. These allow real-time data to be visualised from any PLC anywhere in the world to a PC, tablet or mobile ‘phone anywhere in the world! The system can communicate over 4G, Wi-Fi, or a direct Ethernet connection. From Kazakhstan (yes, we do have two units out there!) to Kendal (we haven’t got one there yet…), we have you covered for a very low monthly cost.
Our remote reporting dashboards which can send #production #reports by #email will shortly be ready for release.

For more information, please contact info@optimacs.com

Mark Lane.

Industrial Automation and
Control Systems Engineering

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