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The Industry 4.0 commission, an initiative of the Catalan Industrial Engineers society (EIC) which now includes the Telecommunications Engineers, Systems Engineers, Civil Engineers and Agricultural Engineers and growing, celebrated the third edition of the Industry 4.0 Forum in the emblematic “Espai Endesa” building in Barcelona on Friday 1st of June with a full capacity audience. … Read more
Robots and Mobile Platforms Industrial and Collaborative Robots Collaborative robots (or cobots) were very much in vogue at the messe, performing many and varied tasks including entertainment. The new range of lightweight robots (in prototype) LBR iisy from Kuka generated a lot of interest. Franka, the cool newcomer at last years HM, which is now … Read more
“Integrated Industry, Connect and Collaborate” was the battle cry of this year’s Hannover Messe, attended by 210,000 visitors and some 5,000 exhibits. The term Industrie 4.0 was first coined at the Hannover Messe in 2011. It seems appropriate that, seven years on, we should see many examples of real world use cases and market ready … Read more
Hijos de Rivera has achived ambitious growth goals in recent years AGV Fleet Management Hijos de Rivera are committed to obtaining maximum value from best of technology solutions. Pallet transport at the bottling plant has been automated with an AGV system for many years. Recent growth has meant that maximum output and efficiency of … Read more
Interflex manufactures and distributes electrical wire support and protection materials to a Global client base. The interflex automated and manual warehouse distribution centre is run by the MAP WMS, which has been extended and adapted to meet with the changing market tendencies in the sector. The system interfaces to the (Siemens) automated PLCs for the … Read more
Spirit (Boeing 787) Tandem AGV for Dreamliner Fuselage Transporting the fuselage and other large components around in the aerospace industry requires precision, security and safety, in equal measure. As part of a multidisciplinary team, MAP coordinated the testing and rollout of the tandem Agv software for the Spirit Wichita Plant which makes the carbon fuselage … Read more
WMS Design and implementation for (automated) production supply warehouse. The WMS controls and manages the automated facilites and interfaces to SAP for material put away and retrieval orders. The SAP Interface is via IDOCS. The WMS implements an IDOC Server. Maintenance, Adaptation, Process optimization.
Design and implemention of the Automated WMS system interfaced to the in-house ERP and Order Preparation System for the Barcelona Distribution Centre. Caprabo needed to migrate the automated warehouse facility to state of the art technology as part of the enterprise wide IT strategy for the distribution centres. We designed and implemented the solution, interfaced … Read more
DSV is a global supplier of transport and logistics services. MAP partnered with DSV to provide a new Sorter Control system for the Automated (Bomb Bay) sorting facility in Subirats, Spain. The legacy system lacked flexibility and the lead time for adaptation of the system to the global roll out of DSV’s Cargo Write WMS … Read more