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Monitoring System in the Bodywork and Paint Shop, SEAT Factory

Monitoring system - Automotive sector.
Partner:
Project objectives
  • Data acquisition, real-time monitoring of flows and production.
  • Prevent the collapse of facilities and production.
  • Optimize the production process according to the objectives set by the plant production management and control system.
  • Speed up reaction time to breakdowns and stoppages of the installation.
  • Disseminate information to the rest of the Organization's IS.
Challenges
  • Understand the needs of the type of management and control desired and optimal.
  • Correct adaptation to the type of existing networks and communications.
  • Correct choice of communication protocols with the different devices.
  • Real-time data communication and integration.
  • Ability to generate online reporting.
Result
  • Minimizing reaction time and troubleshooting.
  • Improvement in the detection of the origin, analysis and cause of breakdowns.
  • Increased productivity in factory facilities.
  • Improvement in available production and maintenance information.
  • Flexibility to adapt the system to any type of installation.
Solutions and products used
  • Wonderware Application Server
  • Historian
  • InTouch

SEAT, S.A., founded in 1950, is the subsidiary of the German Volkswagen Group and is the only Spanish car producer. SEAT develops and produces its range of vehicles at its facilities in Martorell, 30 kilometers from Barcelona. With nearly 11,000 employees, it produces around 400,000 vehicles per year and has a presence in more than 70 countries around the world.

Implementation of a centralized real-time data capture and monitoring system for facilities, based on a suite of Wonderware products, which allows data capture and monitoring of the bodywork facilities where several models of the SEAT range are manufactured, as well as the integration of the transport or handling facilities of these models in the new monitoring.