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Since February 27, 2001, HEXA Ingenieros has specialized in helping companies worldwide find the perfect automation solution for their unique setup. And on September 29, 2017, we decided it was time to take the next step—our new location in St. Louis, Missouri, opens up the possibilities for our future growth and puts us in a better position to help our clients find success.
We provide a broad range of technology for all of our clients and make sure that the solution we pick is ultimately one that makes sense for what you want to achieve. Our service offering includes several unique kinds of technology, all optimized to help streamline your efficiency and modernize your workflow.
Automation Systems
Automated systems perform production tasks that are usually carried out by operators. In automated processes, humans interact directly with machines via software, and automated system components perform the operations required.
Automated systems offer the following advantages:
- Continuous, error-free repetition
- Cost savings
- More predictable production times
- More flexible production
- Faster response times thanks to improved data flow
MES/MOM
Manufacturing execution systems (MES) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) allow your controls and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to exchange data in real time, offering key advantages to your facility for productivity and overall performance. Benefits of implementing an MES/MOM solution for your facility include:
- Shorter time to market
- Increased productivity
- Cost-effective operation
- Flexibility and innovation
- Improved operator performance
- Superior quality for your entire supply chain
- Comprehensive data collection, analysis, and sharing
SCADA
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems monitor and optimize, in real time, the status and operability of programmable logic controller (PLC) factory variables, giving users an overview of the entire plant’s automated processes. These applications also allow users to interact directly with a system’s field elements.
SCADA systems offer the following advantages:
- Real-time data reading and recording
- Generation of warnings and alarms
- Creation of reports and downloads
- Monitoring of equipment
- Control and supervision of all of a factory’s elements from anywhere within the company
DCS
Distributed control systems (DCSs) offer a single database containing all the signals, variables, graphic objects, alarms, and system events. In DCSs, a single, centralized engineering tool is used to program the system, centralize operations, and develop the PLC logic or graphic objects monitoring.
Advantages of implementing a DCS system include:
- Multiuser programming platform that allows several programmers to work on the system simultaneously, securely and without version conflicts
- Robust and reliable problem-solving capabilities, enabling you to work efficiently with minimal downtime
- Equipment synchronization so that all measurements, alarms, and events have the same time stamp
- Redundancy at all the levels mentioned above: IT equipment, controllers, communication networks and buses, input/output modules, etc.
Quality Solutions For Your Entire Facility
Batch Processing
Batch processing is the execution of a program without direct user control or supervision. These programs do not require any user interaction, and their operation is usually specified by procedures that indicate what should be executed and what type of resources need to be reserved.
Advantages of implementing a batch system are:
- Maximum use of both raw materials and other resources, thereby minimizing stock while meeting customer demand
- Reduced startup costs: A single production line can be used to make a variety of products
- Useful for factories that make seasonal items, products for which it is difficult to forecast demand, pilot production runs, and high-margin products
- Enabling continuous, simultaneous manufacture of products with similar production requirements
Traceability
Traceability systems collect information that enables users to monitor products from the moment the raw materials enter the process through to distribution.
HEXA Engineers uses latest-generation hardware and software to capture and generate information that meets the highest quality standards.
Traceability systems offer the following advantages:
- Stock control
- Product quality assurance
- Effective communication between systems
- Time savings
- Greater productivity
- Service improvements: decision-making at destination, repetition prevention, reprocessing, ease of identifying the source of problems
- Lower costs
- Data collection