Case Study: Leading Scandinavia Plastic Manufacturing Company achieves real-time production optimization with Cogent DataHub

Leading plastics manufacturere uses live process data to optimize production, saving time and materials

Leading Scandinavia Plastic Manufacturing Company, one of Scandinavia’s leading plastics manufacturers, needed a way to integrate data from 15 machinery units and make it available in real time for both engineering analysis and business systems. Its existing system integration effort had become increasingly complex and slow, putting the project behind schedule. The company turned to Cogent DataHub, the DataHub® from Cogent Real-Time Systems, to simplify the task.

Cogent DataHub connected the plant’s OPC servers, SQL Server database, Excel spreadsheets, and web browsers, while also tunneling data across the network and aggregating it in one central location. The solution enabled live production visibility, real-time calculations, and up-to-the-second records for accounting and planning, while keeping production and management systems separated. The company reported substantial gains in productivity and performance, major programming and development time savings, and a system that “pays for itself” through reduced time, materials, and production costs.