Efficiently Cabled − Berlin Schultheiss Brewery Automated with PROFIBUS PA
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PROFIBUS is used in more than 500,000 applications to solve all kinds of automation challenges in manufacturing and process control.Below are a number of application reports which show how PROFIBUS can be used to resolve an automation task. These examples in different industries clearly demonstrate the benefits of PROFIBUS in comparison with traditional technology.
Food & Beverage
Sugar plant benefits from integrated process automation using PROFIBUSmore
Maracaj Sugar & Alcohol Mill, part of the Nova America Group, has recently commissioned a full automation solution to achieve performance improvements in their alcohol and sugar production processes. ...more
Successful Bit by Bitmore
Alvorada do Bebedouro Sugar and Alcohol Unit, located in the municipality of Guaranésia, Minas Gerais state in Brazil, started this year the production of VHP (Very High Polarization) sugar, a raw mat...more
Cia. Iguaçu is one of the largest Brazilian exporters of soluble coffees and offers a complete line of coffees. The PROFIBUS technology was chosen to improve the production and the quality of the proc...more
BASF plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil − A history of success in PROFIBUS BASF−Glassurit has recently completed an extension to its factory for pigments and painting produ...more
Cervepar is a Beer Company from Paraguay located in Assunción City, South America. PROFIBUS PA devices from smar (21 FP303-Profibus PA to pressure converter, 4 FI303-Profibus PA to current converter a...more
Johnny Walker, the world's leading Scotch whisky, is bottled at United Distillers packaging site at Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. Following a recent upgrade project undertaken by Scomagg Ltd from ...more
The J.J. Darboven Kaffee Company in Hamburg is one of the best known coffee roasters in Germany. The Hamburg factory roasts and packs coffee for such well known makes such as Idee Kaffee and Möve...more
The Tai Chang Wall's Ice Cream factory (in China it is called He Lu Xue) is producing different kinds of ice cream for the Chinese market. The factory is a subsidiary of the united Li Hua Company. The...more
IEC 1158-2 PROFIBUS-PA controls filtering/fermentation plant The famous Bitburger brewery in Bitburg, Germany, has chosen H1 PROFIBUS-PA for the automation of a new plant, where, each day 200,000 bot...more
The new AU$28 million Water Corporation owned Kwinana Water Reclamation Plant (KWRP) is not only Australia's largest municipal wastewater reuse plant, but also the site of the country's most comprehen...more
Frisian drinking-water filtered with PROFIBUS
Every year Nuon Water pumps more than 10 million cubic metres of water from the ground in Noordbergum, Friesland, the Netherlands. However this water n...more
During May, SANEPAR, a company for sanitation and water treatment inaugurated the Iraí Water Treatment Station, a new water treatment station located in Curitiba city. This station provides 4000 l/s o...more
PROFIBUS monitors polluted sludge stored on the IJsseloog island
A special island in the Ketelmeer lake (Netherlands) between the Noordoostpolder and Flevoland polders constructed by the Directorat...more
J.A.M.E.S. WATER POLLUTION CONTROL CENTER
The Joint Abbotsford Mission Environmental System (J.A.M.E.S.) water pollution control center is currently implementing a Stage VI expansion program that i...more
OIL TERMINAL (BRAZIL)more
With more than 200 field devices, Cocamar has one of the largest PROFIBUS PA installations in Brazil, says Cesar Cassiolato from smar. Cocamar, one of most important comestible oil refineries...more
PETROM, located in Mogi das Cruzes City, in Sao Paulo State, employs 190 workers approximately and with the new investments the plant will have an annual production capacity of Phthalic Anhydride of 8...more
Shell's oil blending plant in Hamburg produces more than 350,000 tons a year of a wide range of oil-based products and is the largest Shell plant of its type worldwide.more
In Albury, PROFIBUS is used in a paper production line at the Australian Newsprint mills (AMN). AMN is the largest newspaper quality paper manufacturer in Australia, producing more than 75% of the pap...more
PAINT (AUSTRALIA)more
Beiersdorf produces brand name articles, and is a globally-active company. It most famous brands are Nivea, Hansaplast and Tesa. These innovative brands are recognized world-wide, and represent the co...more
The first experiences at a pharmaceutical plant of Aventis Aventis Pharma Deutschland of the sanofi-aventis Group is constructing two new production lines, based on fieldbus technology, for tw...more
Diagnosing Fieldbus Devices−PROFIBUS PA Paves the Way to Event-Controlled Maintenance Process engineering production plants are heterogeneous in many respects: complex field devices of very dif...more
Reactor redevelopment at WACKER Burghausen benefits from PROFIBUS PA
Process engineering plants which already have 25 or more years of operation behind them are due for a revamp of their measuremen...more
A success story from the field of process engineering
Initial Situation The Gernsheim site of Merck KGaA produces, amongst other things, pearl lustre pigments, that are used as admixtures for a...more
DSM Fine Chemicals' new pilot plant controlled with PROFIBUS New medicines, or life-science-products, are assigned a high priority on the agenda of the European pharmaceutical industry. One company wh...more
The Austrian Krems Chemie was founded as a small enterprise in 1948 by a group of ambitious entrepreneurs. In 1998, the company celebrated its 50th anniversary as a company of international stature. T...more
The world's first real IEC 1158-2 compliant fieldbus installation with certified field devices operating in Ex Zone 1 environments with power on the bus has been installed successfully at Wacker Chemi...more
The Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) is one the world biggest company in production and exportation of iron ore. The Cauê plant provides 20 millions of ton of natural ore per year. During the second...more
ICAL, located in São José da Lapa city in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, and one of most important lime factory of South America, has one of most advanced world technology in grit, natural lime and hydra...more
The automated control system for transporting coal from deep underground mining operations requires a fast, reliable communications bus.more
Venezuela has large reserves of iron ore and iron, and steel production is one of the most important industries. The Sidor steelworks in the capital city of Caracas produces thousands of tons of sheet...more
The Palabora copper mine in South Africa is one of the largest copper mines in the world. When open cast copper mining first started there in 1966, the original estimate of the mine's lifetime was onl...more
Engine Assembly (UK)more
Round and square shaped PET-bottles as well as more complex and asymmetric containers can be produced by seven different types of ADS blow-moulding machines.more
John Young, Chief engineer from Roberts PolyPro, liked what he saw at the PTO PROFIBUS seminar he attended at Control Corporation of America (CCA). He just needed an opportunity to use it on a real ma...more
Heidelberg Web Systems: Precisions Print Precisely
A manufacturing company for over 150 years, Heidelberg introduced its first printing press with an automatic sheet feed and delivery system in 191...more
CSI opts for modular construction of palletizers with PROFIBUS
The CSi mechanical engineering company of Raamsdonksveer, the Netherlands, supplies palletizers constructed in accordance with a modul...more
PROFIBUS DP supports the efficient and cost-effective manufacture of cars at Ford's factory in Genk, Belgium.more
The Danish company GRUNDFOS is one of the leading manufacturers of high-quality pumps and associated management and control systems. Their German office, which has its own Development, Production and ...more
The Equipment Development Division of BOC Gases, UK makes industrial systems for food processing based on the use of cryogenic gases.more
The Wohlenberg Buchbindesysteme company is considered to be the inventor of adhesive book binding, also called "perfect binding". Modern perfect binding systems can bind up to around 7,000 b...more
Odenwald Fiberboard Production Facilities have worldwide market leadership as a producer of ceiling paneling systems. The large majority of these ceiling panels is mounted in supermarkets, office buil...more
A good example of the way in which field devices and actuators/sensors work smoothly together can be seen at the Reynolds Tobacco plant in Trier, Germany, where this is achieved through interaction be...more
Australia: Open Cast Miningmore
The USA's first airport to have computerized airfield lighting uses PROFIBUS communications. Boston's Logan, established in 1923, has always been an airport of 'firsts'. Recent upgrades make use of la...more
With an overall investment reaching 110 Mio. Euros, the new airport of Venice now boasts the kind of superior efficiency that will make it the unrivalled hub for air travel across North-east Europe.more
Deliveries from Bloemenveiling Flora flower auctions now even faster The Bloemenveiling Flora flower auctions in Rijnsburg, the Netherlands, is one of the world's major nodes in the international flo...more
Valley Record Distributors of Woodland, California is one of the nation's largest, full-service wholesale distributors of pre-recorded music and video in the United States. Their customers consist of...more
It is not generally known that alongside its "white goods", such as refrigerators, dishwashers and washing machines, Gütersloh-based Miele & Co., Germany, has developed its own manufact...more
The Bochum production line of the Adam Opel AG in Germany is one of the most modern production plants of the European automobile industry. Twelve-hundred Opel Astra cars roll off the production line e...more
The chemist John S. Pemberton invented a new "medicine" called Coca-Cola in 1886. The consumption of Coca-Cola has increased steadily since then - more than 450 million soft drinks from Coca...more
