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Crossing the Atlantic to Argentina

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 Crossing the Atlantic to Argentina - IoT ONE Case Study
Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
Applicable Industries
  • Metals
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
The Customer
About The Customer
Aluar is one of the largest aluminium producers worldwide and employs a workforce of 2,245 employees. In 2013, it generated a record revenue of 1.2 billion US dollars. The company is Argentina’s only producer of primary aluminium and has a production capa
The Challenge
Between 2005 and 2010, Aluar went through a substantial growth phase where most of the production facilities were upgraded. As a result of this expansion, the number of PLCs increased from 100 to 300. When it came to managing the control program software, however, flaws and cracks began to show in the established workflow and version control procedures that had prior to the growth phase, been based on manual backups and documentation. A rapid growth in the number of automation and maintenance staff (>100 users) also coincided with increasing accounts of infrequent and incomplete documentation of software versions, which then required an increasing effort where bug tracing and detection were concerned. This increased the risk of incidents that could not only affect operation, but that could also result in stoppages at the mid-term. It also increased the risk of safety risks remaining undetected.
The Solution
The data management system versiondog
Operational Impact
  • [Data Management - Data Storage]
    centralized data storage
  • [Data Management - Data Security]
    Traceability who changed what when and why
  • [Efficiency Improvement - Operation]
    no longer time intesive searches for the latest plc version

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