Prosys Menu front page Services Current affairs References Contact information In English Case Valio Valio Oy is a leading developer and manufacturer of dairy products in Finland and worldwide. The company's foreign operations cover 65 countries, including licensing, exports and foreign companies. Foreign operations account for about a third of net sales and the product range includes about 1,000 products. Valio has 15 production plants in Finland, two in Estonia and cheese packaging plants in Belgium and Russia. Valio has subsidiaries in Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Belgium, the USA and China. Integration of automation and production control (MES) Summary Valio's product quality and traceability requirements are at a very high level, which means that the smooth and reliable transfer of production information between different systems is crucial. To meet this need, Prosys developed an integration software for Valio between the automation systems and production control systems in accordance with the OPC UA standard. Development of production systems Valio's production is constantly being developed and with several suppliers. The goal is to optimize production efficiency and quality using the best technical solutions for each process, however, so that they can be integrated with each other. According to Jukka Peltola, Valio's Production Automation Development Manager, Prosys' strengths are innovation, efficient implementation of solutions, knowledge of new technology (OPC UA) and proactive communication. “We had access to good experts whose focus and expertise are strongly in industrial factory systems,” says Peltola about the collaboration. “It’s important to us Integration solution The integration uses data transmission in accordance with the OPC UA standard to connect automation systems (DCS and PLC systems) to production control systems (MES). The data to be transferred includes process orders, process messages and measurement data. The software works in the Microsoft .NET 3.5 environment and is used as an interface to production control systems, e.g. Oracle database. Software development uses the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 development tool. A Windows Forms interface was developed to configure data transfer, which can be used to easily add new trends to data collection, for example. OPC UA:n avulla kaikki edellä mainitut tiedonsiirtotarpeet saadaan hoidettua keskitetysti yhden luotettavan ja helposti konfiguroitavan yhteyden kautta. Ratkaisu parantaa myös tietoturvaa, sillä OPC UA mahdollistaa uusimpien tietoturvamenetelmien käytön ollen samalla helposti reititettävissä hankalissakin verkko-olosuhteissa. Ratkaisun avulla voidaan hoitaa tehdasjärjestelmien ja automaation väliset tiedonsiirtotarpeet kaikilla Valion tuotantolaitoksilla. ”Meille on tärkeää, että meillä on luotettava ja pitkäjänteinen yhteistyökumppani, joka ymmärtää tuotantoympäristön tarpeet ja pystyy toteuttamaan vaativat tehdasjärjestelmäintegraatiot.“ Jukka Peltola, Tuotannon automaation kehityspäällikkö, Valio Kiinnostuitko? Ota meihin yhteyttä niin palaamme asiaan toivomallasi tavalla. Take contact " Prosys PMS Oy Tekniikantie 14, 02150 Espoo Tel: +358 9 420 9007 Fax: +358 9 420 9008 Business ID: 1016316-1 Contact form » Team firstname.lastname@prosys.fi Sales sales@prosys.fi Technical support support@prosys.fi General matters info@prosys.fi Recruitment jobs@prosys.fi Navigation Front page " Services » News » References " Contact information » In English »