Thinus van Schoor

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OMAC and European vendors

• Thinus van Schoor
• Automation Manager
• thinus.vanschoor_at_sabreweries.com

OMAC Presentation 15 October 2003
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Challenges we face

• A diverse spread of manufacturing operations and
  market demands
• Breweries are categorized as Emerging,
  Established, Developed and Advanced
• Varying existing degrees of automation
• Huge diversity of control system hardware
  platforms and software environments
• Packaging largely islands of automation
• High cost of reconfiguring OEM offerings
• OEM standards versus end user standards
• Difficulties to integrate and maintain

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OMAC Leverage for SABMiller
Solution
Line Type
Requirements
OMAC Workgroups
PackSoft
Stand alone
Motion control per machine
A
PackML
B1
Hardwired
Linked Control
PackConnect
B2
Data exchange
Field bus
PackML
Common Operator Interface
PackML
Line visibility
C
PackHMI??
PackML
Line optimization
Reporting And MES
D
PackAdv
PackLearn skills gap identification and actions
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Global Vendors Packaging
OEM Europe
OEM USA
Siemens
Schneider
Siemens
Siemens, Rockwell
Siemens, Rockwell
Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider
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The synergy triangle
End User
Automation Supplier
OEM
Real results only if all three align .with
global economies of scale
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Actions since Feb 2003

• OMAC state model built in test bed - awareness
• Large project in Cape Town brewery huge
  opportunity
• May Roadshow Visit to three major OEMs in
  Europe
• Clarify requirements for above project
• Align three year strategies especially
  standards
• Explain OMAC especially PackML guidelines
• Result preliminary buy in and discovery of
  European guideline Weinstephaner

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Weinstephaner Standard

• European packaging suppliers standard for line
  interface started 1998
• Addresses following
• Bottling plant models and basic architecture
• Data standards naming, structure and exchange
  (horizontal and vertical)
• Data Evaluation and reporting guidelines
• Wide adoption by OEMs into designs
• Cape Town project will be test case to map OMAC
  and Weinstephaner

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What next - suggestions

• Develop relationship further between OMAC and
  European vendors
• Identify areas of mutual beneficial focus
• Align efforts
• packML focus on packtags guideline key to
  practical adoption
• State model refinement by incorporation of
  implementation learnings
• Publish
• Adoption partner efforts, project learnings,
  application software

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Thank You!