Manage Machines, Ensure Reliability, Deliver Success!
Do you struggle to maintain consistent production flow in complex, highly automated systems? CONTROL reduces unexpected disruptions, inefficiencies, and standstills—helping you improve productivity and lower operational costs.
CONTROL is built to address the diverse needs of manufacturers. CONTROL integrates real-time monitoring, alarm, standstill and order management with advanced analytics to streamline production processes and boost efficiency.
Importance of Controlling the Shopfloor
Increased Efficiency
Eliminate standstills and inefficiencies with real-time monitoring and automation. Streamlined workflows reduce delays and wasted resources.
Without the right solutions, you risk losing transparency on your shopfloor, wasting resources on non-conforming parts, enduring costly standstills, and relying on unreliable, fragmented data that hinders effective decision-making.
Advanced Order Management & Flying Setup:
Manage, edit, and prioritize orders with intelligent features like waiting lists, quantity control, parallel workflows, and packaging information. Enable faster type changes without emptying machines, reducing standstills and increasing production flexibility.
Process and Operating Standardization:
Standardized PLC code, alarm messages, and process device connections simplify system integration and reduce complexity. Unified recipes, machine settings, and workflows ensure consistent production quality and efficiency.
Track & Trace Capabilities:
Integrated scanning links production data to batches or serial numbers for complete traceability. Prevent errors and unauthorized actions with Block and Allow lists, while M2M communication boosts efficiency and accuracy through automated data exchange.
Recipe and Type Management:
Centralized storage of production parameters guarantees product-specific settings and quality control, simplifying PLC management by shifting complexity to the central system.
Connection to Other Systems:
Seamless integration with ERP, MES, CAQ, and OT systems via native APIs or OPC-UA, MQTT, REST API etc. Enables order and shift synchronization, real-time order progress feedback, and automated data exchange to optimize workflows, reduce manual input, and enhance process efficiency.
Centralized User Management:
Simplified updates, access control, and data consolidation across local and global production sites.
Rework and analysis stations:
Streamline analysis and rework processes with part feeding, process data access, and AI-assisted functionality to reduce rejects and improve first-time-right metrics, enhancing product quality.
Alarm & Standstill Management:
Real-time detection of stoppages and process deviations. Best-in-class standstill detection for loosely and fixed chained machines. Automated alerts & escalation workflows enable quick response, while root cause analysis minimizes downtime and optimizes efficiency.
Comprehensive Data Collection (MDE/BDE/QDE):
Real-time collection of machines, operational & quality data. Automated logging minimizes manual input. Dashboards provide instant monitoring to reduce downtime and continuously optimize production processes.
Turn your production challenges into opportunities with a system that combines efficiency, flexibility, and industry-leading innovations to deliver unmatched value.
Strategic and Long-Term Advantages for Your Operations
Operational Standardization:
Achieve consistency and reliability with globally standardized HMIs. Simplify user management, ensure compliance, and reduce training with a unified, intuitive interface across machines and plants.
Scalable Integration Across Suppliers:
Adopt a vendor-agnostic solution to eliminate specific machine and hardware dependencies. Shift line control, data management, and decisions outside the PLC for unified integration across vendors, plants, and systems.
Data-Driven Insights for Better Decision-Making:
Leverage centralized and standardized data to perform consistent analysis. Identify inefficiencies, optimize performance, and enhance productivity with actionable insights.
Future-Proof Technology:
Stay ahead with software built on industry-best practices, offering seamless updates and long-term support. With over 30 years of proven reliability, even older machines remain fully supported, making your production future-ready with AI and machine learning capabilities.
Seamless Project Execution:
Achieve fast ROI with our streamlined project management, from planning over realization to final acceptance - ensuring reliable and predictable outcomes.
Why Stiwa Shopfloor CONTROL?
"We understand the challenges in production: A costly line is down without a clear reason, or unstable processes delay deliveries. Managing different machines with limited transparency adds pressure. CONTROL helps create stability and maintain full oversight." – Thomas Griesmayr-Oberndorfer
Standard software ensures smooth operations by updating and configuring software to integrate with older machines while maintaining compatibility with the latest systems. Simplify control processes and extend the machine lifecycle without disruptions!