WAGO wins food industry innovation award for modular automation system
24/11/2016 WAGO Ltd
WAGO has won an award for its innovative modular automation system for the food and beverage industry at the Food Processing Awards 2016. The system, called DIMA, was named as the winner in the Robotics & Automation category.DIMA was developed in response to a call from NAMUR, the User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries, for a new methodology for automating modular processing systems. The food processing industry is being increasingly required to react quickly to changing market conditions, and produce smaller product runs more quickly, efficiently and economically.
Receiving the award, Derek Lane (pictured), Automation Manager at WAGO, said: "We're very pleased to have been recognised with this award. Until now, there was no complete non-proprietary solution on the market for automated integration of individual modules into a complete application. As a result the automation system of a modular application would have to be laboriously programmed by hand, taking up valuable time and increasing the risk of errors. With DIMA, WAGO has proved for the first time how easily modular systems can be automated on a modular basis without extensive effort".
DIMA allows manufacturers to quickly and flexibly adapt their production processes, and by eliminating the need to carefully plan and programme the automation system manually, engineering time can be significantly shortened, leading to greater productivity, efficiency and profitability.
Food Processing Magazine, the event organisers, commented: "The judges felt that WAGO's DIMA offers a great solution for the decentralised automation of process systems by equipping the modules with their own intelligence - a vital requirement if the industry is to become more agile as we move towards Industry 4.0 goals".
For more information, please contact:
Paul Witherington
Wago Ltd
Triton Park
Swift Valley Ind Estate
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV21 1SG
Tel: 01788 568008
Fax: 01788 568050
Email: paul.witherington@wago.com
Web: www.wago.com
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