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ABB and Werum IT Solutions on Shop Floor Integration are launching a solution designed to reduce engineering, validation and testing time associated with biotech production. Designed for established pharmaceutical manufacturing plants with existing machinery, the new software solution called Shop Floor Integration Version 2.0 allows for the creation of a digital twin of the existing system prior to installation. This helps reduce engineering, validation and testing time and minimizes the plant’s downtime. Using this new solution, engineers can reportedly save between 40 percent and 70 percent of the time spent on integrating systems when compared to existing solutions.
The Shop Floor Integration interface connects Werum’s PAS-X manufacturing execution system (MES) to existing shop floor equipment. This digital solution helps prevent production bottlenecks and reduce cycle times so as to lower inventories, free up capacity and increase efficiency.
ABB together with Werum has developed a message-based communications system that sends and receives instruction between the MES and the production equipment. This provides regular synchronization between the systems and communicates data such as quality, setpoint and consumption.
In contrast to today’s tag-based integration, the new concept is based on OPC UA (Unified Architecture) and the widely used standard for message-based communication MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport). This ensures highest standards of cyber security, data integrity and ruggedness.