DVD Production (China)

Founded in 2000, ANWELL Technologies headquartered in Hong Kong is a global supplier of advanced optical media equipment and process technologies.

The company offers customers in the DVDR and CD-R replication industries a variety of integrated manufacturing solutions, including replication lines for a wide range of formats. Customers’ requirements called for a flexible, scalable and future-oriented system solution that employees simple, intelligent and compact equipment capable of delivering CDs at cycle times of three seconds, or about 1,200 discs per hour.

To maximise production stability, ANWELL chose to go with a solution based on PROFINET CBA. SIMATIC 317-2 PN/DP CPUs are utilized with integrated PROFINET interfaces To communicate between the intelligent field devices distributed across the plant. The modular design architecture greatly simplifies the network topology.

PROFINET CBA offers ANWELL extensive advantages, including improved DVDR /CD manufacturing system efficiency, increased flexibility and accelerated system adaptation. The easy linking of pre-tested CBA modules also provides time savings during commissioning.