Wonderware HMI Helps Dürr Behr Painting Systems Provide Common
The company is part of the Dürr Group, a technology company employing 3,300 people around the world that creates integrated solutions not only for painting installations but also for industrial cleaning and environmental systems, and automation and materials-handling technology. Because they serve customers all over the world, Dürr Behr often used to run into problems both in commissioning and in aftersale servicing.
“Every manufacturer uses a different PLC, so control systems are not standardized anywhere in the world,” explained Jan-Peter Grigoleit, director of Software Development. “In the States, they use Allen-Bradley; in Germany it’s Siemens or AEG; in Scandinavia, especially Sweden, they have SATT Control; in England it’s GEC; in France, and Spain, Telemecanique; in the Far East, also Telemecanique, and now Mitsubishi and Modicon. Different people in different companies would develop different interfaces, running on different hardware, so it was hard even to repair the systems. And we lost a lot of time and money educating the various subcontractors we use to commission the systems.”