WonderWorld / Pantek 2006 user conference

Four innovative UK organisations received acknowledgement of their skill in enhancing operational excellence for their customers, with Project Excellence Awards at the 2006 Pantek user conference

Pantek, who market and support Wonderware software products in the UK and Ireland, has announced the award winners of their 'Project Excellence Awards', which were presented at the recent premier 2006 customer event - the UK WonderWorld and 2006 Pantek User Conference.

The event was held at the Daventry Hotel, Northamptonshire on the 31st October and 1st November.

The award winners were:.

* Briggs Automation - The Monkhill Confectionery.

Project Monkhill Confectionery of York is a division of Trebor Bassett , a wholly owned subsidiary of Cadbury Schweppes.

Although currently still under development and implementation, this huge greenfield installation features a number of Wonderware software components - InTouch, InSQL, SuiteVoyager and DT Analyst - as well as Pantek supplied Stratus, Advantech and Hirschman PC and networking hardware.

The supplier/customer partnership also relied on Pantek support, consultancy and training.

The award was presented to Paul Alcock of Briggs Automation.

* Cougar Automation - The Network Rail Project.

Network Rail owns the operational infrastructure of Merseyrail, the 75 mile 67 station underground rail system in Liverpool.

The Wonderware Industrial Application Server (IAS) was selected to be at the heart of a remote condition monitoring system designed, installed and commissioned by Cougar Automation.

This was the UK's first implementation of IAS which was chosen due to its re-usable objects feature - the MerseyRail application has 700 "point ends" all replicated from a single "object".

InTouch, InSQL and Active Factory were also deployed in this scaleable safety-critical project that provides a replicable architecture for other similar projects at Network Rail.

Pantek hardware and Industrial Consultant support were also part of the overall solution.

Due to its punctuality and reliability, MerseyRail is now the best rail service provider in the country.

The award was presented to Derek Burton of Cougar Automation.

* Vantage VCSE - The Bulmers Project Bulmers is an industry leader in the production of cider marketed under the brand names of Bulmers within and Magners outside the Republic of Ireland.

Magners cider has experienced phenomenal growth in the last number of years which is predicted to continue.

Bulmers have clear sight of the benefits in integrating shop floor information to their core business management systems and tasked their long established industrial software partner, Vantage, with realising this ambition in their Apple Processing, Fermentation and Maturation areas.

Using Wonderware PEM (Production and Event Monitoring), the fruits of this strategy were immediately seen in the empowerment of the enterprise resource planners with exact production and performance data.

Production and Process have increased quality control and traceability which is now compliant with statutory legislation.

Also inherent in this management information is increased performance and optimisation.

A significant contributory factor in the success of this project was the strength of the partnership between Vantage and Pantek - Vantages in depth customer and industry knowledge joined with Pantek training and industrial consulting skills.

The award presented to Ian Hetherington of Vantage VCSE.

* CNES - The Corus Turbo Blowers Project.

Corus Northern Engineering Services (CNES) of Redcar worked closely with Pantek and Corus power station at Scunthorpe on a project to replace their legacy systems.

CNES were able to take a global view of the Corus "Turbo Blower" project requirements as expressed by the Wonderware Industrial Application Server (IAS) model before going ahead with a phased implementation which satisfies today's requirements as well as future expected growth.

The close working partnership between CNES and Pantek featured provision of software, consultancy, support, training and Advantech industrial PC hardware.

Above all, as early adopters of IAS in the UK, CNES recognised that the IAS architecture lent itself to a long term "scaleable to business growth" deployment at Corus.

The award was presented to Mike Seddon, Martyn King and David Steel of Corus Northern Engineering Services.

The conference was designed to provide manufacturing managers, information technology professionals, operations management and engineering personnel with vital information on how their companies could optimise plant and enterprise operations.

Delegates learnt how to achieve maximum efficiency and increased performance throughout the enterprise with the use of best industry practices and Wonderware's wide variety of information and automation software solutions.

The event as the above awards confirm, showcased the latest strategies and best practices for achieving operational excellence.

WonderWorld UK was part of a 20 city global tour designed for market leader Wonderware, to showcase latest thinking and technology.

Delegates also benefited from the incorporation of the Pantek 2006 User Conference.

Pantek, established 21 years ago, employs over 60 people and is a leading supplier of industrial automation solutions to major manufacturers in both the UK and Eire.

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