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SCADA-based plant-wide information system supports operational efficiency objectives, as 101-year-old luxury sports car maker goes from strength-to-strength Think luxury, think British innovation. Aston Martin is a byword for excellence and is a premier example of UK manufacturing. As it celebrates 101 years of automotive production, its world-famous high performance sports cars, including the Rapide S, Vanquish, DB9 and Vantage, ensure its place as a leading global brand. To further reinforce its position as a sports car manufac- turer, Aston Martin and Siemens Industry have developed Answers for industry. www.siemens.co.uk/industry and installed a SCADA plant intelligence system that un- derpins the company’s reputation for efficiency and per- formance. Its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Gaydon in Warwickshire has been enhanced with the in- stallation of Siemens SIMATIC WinCC SCADA as a scalable process visualisation system to control and monitor all as- pects of the site’s processes from the production line to the paint shop and beyond. Aston Martin’s Senior Controls Engineer Steve Davis explains some of the back-ground: “Our Gaydon manufacturing facility is modern, flexible and efficient but Driving Total Control Aston Martin utilises Siemens Industry solution to enhance information transparency at manufacturing headquarters View more case studies on the Siemens website - take a look!
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SCADA-based plant-wide information system supports operational efficiency objectives, as 101-year-old luxury sports car maker goes from strength-to-strength
Think luxury, think British innovation. Aston Martin is a byword for excellence and is a premier example of UK manufacturing. As it celebrates 101 years of automotive production, its world-famous high performance sports cars, including the Rapide S, Vanquish, DB9 and Vantage, ensure its place as a leading global brand.
To further reinforce its position as a sports car manufac-turer, Aston Martin and Siemens Industry have developed
Answers for industry.
www.siemens.co.uk/industry
and installed a SCADA plant intelligence system that un-derpins the company’s reputation for efficiency and per-formance. Its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Gaydon in Warwickshire has been enhanced with the in-stallation of Siemens SIMATIC WinCC SCADA as a scalable process visualisation system to control and monitor all as-pects of the site’s processes from the production line to the paint shop and beyond.
Aston Martin’s Senior Controls Engineer Steve Davis explains some of the back-ground: “Our Gaydon manufacturing facility is modern, flexible and efficient but
Driving Total ControlAston Martin utilises Siemens Industry solution to enhance information transparency at manufacturing headquarters
View more case studies on the Siemens website - take a look!
“The Gaydon site is now seamlessly joined via the user-friendly WinCC SCADA system so all elements of the production process are easily accessible via the touch displays that are strategically positioned in production areas.” Daniel Smalley Siemens Industry
we are always looking for improvements. We felt that the introduction of a plant-wide integrated control and monitoring system would be beneficial. We spoke with Sie-mens Industry and developed a solution which had SIMATIC WinCC SCADA at its heart. We can now access status, data and reporting from up to 50 terminals across the site.”
The factory-wide control system operates all equipment and provides immediate access to operational critical data such as trend logging of temperature curves in the paint shop’s curing ovens through to control and visualisation of activity on the two primary production lines. Equipment data can be monitored and presented as live operator-rel-evant information which can be integrated into KPI re-ports which can then be used for strategic management decision-making. In addition, with access to downtime re-porting capability, fault-finding and even spotting poten-tial faults, issues can be quickly identified and corrected leading to a tangible reduction in downtime and an in-crease in overall equipment effectiveness.
Daniel Smalley, Product Manager for Siemens Industry be-lieves Aston Martin is reaping real benefits from the ex-pansion of the control and monitoring system at Gaydon and the enhanced intelligence it brings to the manufactur-ing process. He says: “The Gaydon site is now seamlessly joined via the user-friendly WinCC SCADA system so all el-ements of the production process are easily accessible via the touch displays that are strategically positioned in pro-duction areas. Visualised realtime plant and production in-formation at the touch of a button means the operational teams are on top of situations quickly and can respond
without delay. From a proactive perspective enhanced and predictive maintenance strategies are being implemented and, with these, reductions in downtime are actively man-aged meaning operational efficiencies have been further improved.”
Steve Davis concludes: “We are happy with the benefits we have seen since installing the new system. We have an integrated and plant-wide transparent control and moni-toring capability for our essential processes all from a sin-gle source. It also allows for historical archiving of results achieved, downtime alarm logging and daily build logs, which is the type of critical data that can aid strategic planning and im-prove our already impressive efficiency record.”
Aston Martin is a company with a long tradition of the fin-est craftsmanship and cut-ting edge design, positioning its cars as some of the most desirable on the market. With the automation technology support of Siemens Industry it is well placed to en-sure future demand can be met as ef-ficiently as possible.
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