WHAT'S NEW FOR US?

Advanced OPTIPA control systems, now part of our product portfolio, offer savings in natural gas, electricity, and increased production. 

Our story began with a request from the operator of the hydropower plant to modernise the control technology. The most important expectations of the new control system were availability, flexibility and scalability. References to similar installations played a role in increasing reliability and protection against failures. The system should also be open for future expansion. In this case, our choice clearly fell on the PCS 7 platform. Which technical solution did we choose and what are the most important advantages for the customer? 

The commissioning of the power plant block in isolated operation was a challenge both technically and in terms of location. He's in Iraq. The story of the construction of a power plant block for a sugar factory about 100 km from Baghdad in Iraq began for us in 2014. For the technology supplier EKOL, this was the first phase of the project. We are still involved in the project today. At that time, we worked together on the commissioning of 2 backpressure turbines, 2 gas boilers and auxiliary technologies. In 2019, a continuation in the form of the expansion of the power plant block followed. We have 2 new, more powerful turbines, 2 new boilers and auxiliary equipment on site. The new technologies are controlled in a redundant system on the Siemens PCS7 platform.

Karel Tonar has been working in our team since 2012. He leads 3 implementation departments that focus on process automation. His team implements the largest process management projects, but also has experience in establishing new business areas such as hydropower, for which he is now looking for another expert to build PCS7 programming skills with him across process projects. Why is he looking for a specialist for the PCS7 platform? Who exactly is Karel Tonar, what does his career at B:TECH look like and what does he offer his future colleagues? Read more in our interview with him.

The cooperation on the project for the Moravia Lacto dairy in Jihlava was a turning point for our activities in the dairy industry. And it started off a bit unconventional. Almost a rescue operation when we were invited to complete the pending integration of technology. Thanks to this order and due to our size and stability, we have become the preferred automation supplier for the entire INTERLACTO Group. It includes dairies in Jihlava, Opočno and Olešnice. We have also strengthened our cooperation with the company that supplied the technology and are now jointly implementing projects for dairies and cheese factories in Germany, and other countries.

One of the activities that are often replaced by automated or robotic line is product labelling, check and manipulation. The advantage of robotic solution is the possibility of function adjustment of the robot in the case of change of technological procedure (labelling, packaging, mass etc.).