Success Stories

The time when service technicians had to travel through the dark of night and inclement weather to put stuck systems back into operation appears to be gone for good. The keyword nowadays is "connectivity". The most important objective of connectivity is carrying out remote maintenance.

Hexa-Pac, a distributor company of packaging and weighing machines, is a leader in its field in France and wants to provide to its customer the better service possible. The company offers a wide range of machines, from electronic sorting machines to palletizers, and from baggers to automatic staplers for tray packs.

Hooking up a camera or a temperature sensor to the Internet is nothing revolutionary these days. But if you want online access to back-up power generators in a billion-dollar hospital, things are more complicated. You will need a secure and reliable industrial strength connection around the clock. RCR O’Donnell Griffin, who have installed the control system for the backup power generators in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, found their remote access solution in the eWON products from HMS.

When Newton Tesla sets up new variable speed drives for their customers, they can do configuration, re-programming and monitoring from any location. By connecting a Netbiter gateway to their drives systems, they can offer their customers immediate assistance and do remote commissioning during the critical start-up period.

C-Tech Innovation uses Netbiter Remote Access to remotely support, troubleshoot and program their electrochemical equipment. By accessing their Siemens and Mitsubishi PLCs remotely they can offer faster support to customers and cut down on travel costs.

Netbiter is connected to Frick compressors in a cold storage in Hapur. Users can see all parameters from the compressors online and also configure the PLCs running the system remotely.

AFA Systems, located in Brampton Ontario, is a leading provider of Custom Designed Automation Solutions for a variety of applications including casing, packaging, palletizing and high-speed assembly. Through the innovative use of servo drives and automation, AFA creates an environment where machine parameters become part of the packaging recipe.  Each time a different product comes to the machine, the packaging patterns and mechanical stops are changed via touchscreen and the PLC program. AFA finds it makes good financial sense to employ the eWON COSY (COmmunication made eaSY) system in their machine design. 

Sollas company is considered as a leader in innovation and in the production of overwrapping machines. The corporate sells annually approximately 100 machines, of which 90 to 95% are immediately exported. So Sollas is present on the international market and more precisely on the cosmetics industry market.

A.G. Stacker is a manufacturer of state-of-the art stackers and ancillary equipment. When company owners Clarence and Helen Allen launched the company in 1996, they had a goal to provide innovative equipment with better customer support than anyone in the industry. Today, keeping innovation and customer service in mind, A.G. Stacker made the decision to work with eWON to develop the next generation of customer interaction.

Jean-Michel Chanavat owns and operates JM Automatismes, a company he founded ten years ago that installs small hydroelectric power stations. "Most of our customers are private individuals who invest in small hydroelectric power stations with a power rating of less than 1 megawatt. They sell the electricity they produce to an operator such as EDF," explains Jean-Michel. He has a diploma in electrical engineering and has worked in the automation sector for almost 25 years.

eWON router has been selected for the surveillance system of one of the largest photovoltaic plants currently in operation in Italy, built near Cremona by Overtech, a specialist company with over ten years of experience in the solar energy sector, designing large-scale installations based on particular architectonic requirements.

The Vonsch company is aware of the fact that building a photovoltaic power plant requires a performing communication system embedded into the plant. A communication network able to collect important data concerning the production process and providing diagnosis on basis of panels and inverters.

Roberto Caspani, a systems integrator in the province of Bergamo (Italy) has created a monitoring system for 20 photovoltaic plants. The solution is based upon the products offered by the Belgian company eWON, and inserting them in the Energ&metrY integrated solution (www.energemetry.net).

In Chile, more and more renewable energy projects are implemented which require reliable and secure monitoring systems. These kind of projects need to be measured and supervised accurately. Sinec corporate’s work is to provide these services. One of the most recent success stories was the implementation of a monitoring system for a solar panel domestic hot water system installed in a building in Chicago.

With W2W Solutions system integrator activity, eWON industrial routers are used in the wind turbine sector. Reliable, secure and flexible, the connectivity solutions eWON offers allow effective control with advanced tracing and logging features to contribute to keeping development costs low. 

The internet has led to rapid developments in the remote monitoring of installations for water purification and treatment. Logisticon Water Treatment and Logisticon Verhuur now use an eWON industrial router, providing technicians with low-cost and quick access to the control system.

Nowadays, industry has very high expectations and faults are less and less tolerated. Consequently, fast and cost-effective solutions are required when dealing with incidents.

In 2010, the town of Ridderkerk has charged VMB Besturingstechniek of reducing costs for its water pumping stations which had to stay reliable and flexible. VMB designs and implements control technology (hardware and software) for clients in the water industry, chemistry, horticulture, food industry, manufacturing and engineering.