WideQuick SCADA Monitors Concrete Manufacturing

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Automations Teknik i Lidköping AB (AtLid) has delivered automation solutions to a large concrete industry in Floda, owned by Benders Sverige AB. With WideQuick SCADA from Kentima, a flexible and future proof system solution was created.

Benders Sverige AB is the leading manufacturer in Sweden when it comes to concrete products for roofing, landscaping and granite. Benders’ products are sold in 18 countries today and their brand is well known among builders merchants across Europe. 

Benders wanted to update their mixing stations and adjust the control management to fulfill the demands on machine security, traceability and energy optimization. Automations Teknik i Lidköping AB was entrusted to develop the new system in the mixing stations together with Benders.

AtLid is a company working on large as well as small automation projects, both in Sweden and in the rest of the world, within process industry, wood industry, mechanical engineering and the food industry, going back to the mid 80’s. 

The focus areas and demands for Benders, as they were searching for a new superior system for their facility in Floda, was: machine security, future-proof system solutions, flexibility in mixing sequences, automatized control of leveling equipment, energy conservation and traceability of process and recipe handling.


”WideQuick is easy, user-friendly and at the same time it has a supreme complexity”, says Petter Kjörk, Automation Engineer at Automations Teknik i Lidköping AB.

 

It was the natural choice for AtLid to recommend Kentima’s product WideQuick SCADA and an OE511 with WideQuick Remote Client preinstalled for the new facility. 

AtLid is a Kentima partner and has several large projects in the running and once again, Kentima delivers products to a large significant industry. 

The foundation of the solution is a powerful control system from Rockwell with integrated safety functionality which, in return, is being monitored by WideQuick SCADA for visualization of the facility. The superior solution is Client Server based which allows you to have a client computer in the facility for easy access. In this case, the client is installed on an industrial computer from Kentima, OE511. Altogether, this provides the operator with a good overview of the facility and a great time saver as one can solve problems that may appear, instead of searching for them.


”WideQuick has fulfilled all our great demands that we had on our new superior surveillance system”, says Kjell Rydberg, Head of Quality at Benders Sverige AB.


By using WideQuick and selected system architecture, the customer gets great integrity and flexibility in the system and the customer can easily alter and adapt the facility in the future.