r & d projects

Standardization-based Automatic Engineering

for reduced integration costs
Generation of Line Management Systems in
the Food & Beverage industry

challenge benefit
The Line Management Systems (LMS) in F&B plants Dramatic decrease of engineering times for every project overview
are implementing various functionalities, from  single application institution
Technische Universität München,
production supervision, alarm and event manage- Marked reduction of error sources Center of Life and Food Sciences
ment, right up to calculation of Key Performance Reduction of integration costs Weihenstephan
Indicators and Reporting. The connection to differ- High Return on Investment (ROI)
ent machines and the need for different functional
modules is making the integration of these systems type of project
complex and expensive. Master Diploma Thesis
Period: 2012 (ca. 9 months)
Student: Andreas Koch
Assistant Professor:
solution Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Flad

want to know more

In order to reduce time and to simplify the engineer- Emilian Axinia, Industry Manager F&B
ing process of a LMS, the application is designed in Ing. Punzenberger COPA-DATA GmbH
a modular way. The core principle of the solution is EmilianA@copadata.com

the standardization of these modules and of their www.copadata.com

characteristics: the communication with the ma-

chinery – based on Weihenstephan Standards, the The zenon Wizard generates a ready-to-use
information flow for data processing and the way Line Management System.
to present the information to end-users.

The Automatic Engineering technology of the soft-

ware zenon enables the creation of a Wizard ap-
plication which simultaneously uses the mentioned
standardization and allows user configuration and
adaption to concrete production equipment. The
Wizard generates functional Line Management
Systems automatically. If required, the result can
be further tuned, by using the zenon Development
Environment.