The BMW Group relies on zenOn® from COPA-DATA company-wide

zenOn® manages security and reliability at all production plants

The BMW Group has chosen to use zenOn® software solutions for their plants world-wide, with immediate effect. The reason for this long-term decision - zenOn® has already proven its value in daily use and BMW are confident it could increase efficiency and productivity considerably across their plants.

After an intensive evaluation of all leading HMI/SCADA systems, the BMW Group decided in favour of world-wide implementation of zenOn®. The visualization solution of COPA-DATA GmbH has already successfully operated the surface technique accross the BMW Group for 5 years, with more than 1.500 installations. “This is another milestone in our successful business development. This long-term partnership reaffirms the trust earned by the European software house COPA-DATA.”, Jürgen Schrödel, Managing Director of COPA-DATA GmbH from Ottobrunn explains.

COPA-DATA prepare for the future

With the decision to use zenOn® company-wide, BMW has entered a strategic partnership with COPA-DATA. For car production, the automotive specialist chose the contractor who could offer the most standardisation, and thus create the greatest possible internal synergy between operations. Furthermore, the automotive manufacturer requires a universal solution from the plant pictures to the alarm management. This universality not only increases quality, but also the overall productivity of their equipment. As zenOn® 6.20 can be used on all Windows operating system and platforms, from Windows CE up to Windows Server 2003, a transparent flow of information throughout the company network can fully be guaranteed. Supervisory control to operator terminal transparency offered by zenOn makes it possible for the production team members to come to the right decisions at any time irrespective of their location.

COPA-DATA stands for competence and reliability.

Besides COPA-DATA’s automation expertise, soft skills have also proved important for the BMW Group: “With more than 50,000 installations we could prove our reliability as well as our technical competence. We will continue in this way in order to realize our long-term goal of expansion.”, COPA-DATA Manager Jürgen Schrödel explains.

HMI/SCADA technology that inspires.

For the operation of machinery, plant and handling equipment, BMW specifiy a B&R Windows CE platform. The various process visualisation options and important production data are particularly powerful here. Local operator terminals can be defined as network projects with a single mouse click, the high-capacity client / server architecture forming the basis for plant-wide use. zenOn®’s highly regarded seamless redundancy guarantees the highest possible availability.

Integrated sequence chain diagnostics provides the control status of a production sequence at a glance. In the case of a malfunction, zenOn also displays the graphical link status beside the predefined message text. Implemented heuristics ensure the user is automatically informed about the most probable reason, simplifying maintenance and improving equipment productivity considerably.

Security as the closing bid.

The alarm management with escalation methodology implemented in zenOn is considered as leading the HMI/SCADA systems market. zenOn® analyzes all incoming equipment malfunction messages in a centralised equipment monitoring platform and displays it according to the individual users’ requirments. For example, effectiveness and efficiency of equipment is implemented graphically using a Pareto chart. Optionally, the alarms can be stored in an ODBC compatible database.

All responsible personnel can access the desired data via the company network. Here, a complete and secure user administration is very important. The user permissions are administered according to FDA Part 11 rules. Based on an Active Directory integration, access to the company-wide Windows network is even possible.

Furthermore, the zenOn software offers many functions to find and manipulate the latent production potential within the same intuitive graphical development environment. “zenOn is a unique universal tool. COPA-DATA will deliver more than 7,000 licenses to the BMW Group and help with know-how, expertise and commitment. The BMW Group stands for ‘recognizing potential and designing growth’. Together we have recognized our potential, and based on a clear strategy we will transform this into joint success”, manager Jürgen Schrödel concluded.

zenOn – software for process control technique and automation

The zenOn product family comprises easy to use and powerful software for industrial automation. The solution of COPA-DATA has diverse applications: It can be used for process visualization, as a machine control system (HMI) or a process control system (SCADA) for manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, process engineering, building management and power supply.

COPA-DATA is the most innovative leader in the HMI/SCADA software market. They have become global trailblazers due to their know-how and experience gained from the installation of more than 50,000 systems in the automotive and machine construction industries, and energy and production plants worldwide. COPA-DATA has been developing HMI/SCADA technology at it’s headquarters in Salzburg, Austria since the mid- 80s. With the program suite zenOn® the company released the first graphical visualization system that ran fully under Windows. The system’s universality from Windows CE up to XP has facilitated full compatibility from the terminal up to the control room, and a sophisticated distributed network technology.

The new generation 6 of zenOn, with automatic engineering and highly efficient reusability of existing project parts reduces engineering time considerably. In addition, COPA-DATA’s STRATON® offers an extremely flexible IEC-61131-3 development environment for embedded systems and soft logic. Together, zenOn and STRATON yield a completely integrated solution. Today’s COPA-DATA distribution network has subsidiaries in Germany, Italy, France and Middle East and partners all over the world. COPA-DATA presently employs more than 100 staff, and has an impressive client reference list including companies such as Festo, BMW and Audi.

COPA-DATA GmbH
Karolingerstrase 7b
5020 Salzburg / Austria
www.copadata.com
sales@copadata.at

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