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CASE STUDY

C ONTR OL P ANELS

SUPPLIER:
The Company and Project Bensons Control Panels

CONICA develops, manufactures and supplies an extensive range of CLIENT:
CONICA
surfacing solutions for the playground, sports, landscaping and resin
flooring markets. With a rich heritage in surfacing solution innovation PROJECT:
and manufacturing, the UK arm of this Swiss owned business operates a Control panel for a tyre recycling
state of the art tyre recycling facility in Newark, with the end product process
used in a range products.
RESULTS:
Collaboration to provide a
complete solution

The Challenge
CONICA wanted to install additional capacity at their Newark
Site, in the form of a new steel processing line to operate
alongside their existing tyre recycling line.

The prior control panel supplier that they had used was
no longer trading, hence they needed to find an
alternative supplier with the capability to not only
design and build a control panel, but also to develop
the complex PLC programme needed to safely
integrate the operation of several large pieces of
automation equipment.

The design and build of the production line was being
managed in house by CONICA staff, who also had other
duties on site, hence they needed a supplier they could
rely upon to deliver the project and allow them to focus
on their core duties.

The system needed to be able to operate both
automatically and in manual mode.
Whilst CONICA had a concept for operation in mind,
this was not fully documented and there was a risk that
if operation was not defined and agreed at the start of
the project, then the commissioning phase could
become time-consuming and expensive as unplanned
modifications were implemented.
Ultimately, CONICA needed a partner to collaborate
with who could lead the software and hardware design
and build process, allowing CONICA to focus on the
performance and operation of the production line.

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