Logistics and MES software formanufacturing and warehouse

Company portrait Artschwager + Kohl

Artschwager + Kohl develops and supplies software systems for manufacturer and production companies as well as for mechani-cal engineering companies.

These include high-performance logistics management systems, for example for auto-mated warehouses, autonomous transport robots or overhead conveyor systems, but also highly effi cient and flexible MES solutions in manufacturing and production.

Nobody can do everything alone. This is why Artschwager + Kohl relies on a pool of highly skilled experts.

Thanks to its network of experts, Artschwager + Kohl is able to supply all the specialist skills required for a system: from mechanical and electrotechnical design to production, assembly, commissioning and maintenance of the mechanics and electrical engineering.

For 20 years now, Artschwager + Kohl Software GmbH based in Herzogenaurach (Bavaria, Germany) has been a leading specialist in industrial software development for automation solutions.

The company focuses on production and intralogistics systems used by manufacturing and production companies.

Software systems from Artschwager + Kohl control the daily production and worldwide transport of millions of pallets, containers, bar-rels, Bathtubs, cars and car cockpits, clothing and much more.

With its extensive experience in system development, commissioning and service & support, Artschwager + Kohl has the neces-sary skills to implement small and large pro-jects in manufacturing and production plants.

Thanks to its recognized expertise as an innovative supplier of integrated, modern and reliable software systems, it has gained a foothold in all industries.

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Portfolio

Benefi ts

■ Project management

■ Specifications

■ Rough and fine conception

■ Software architecture

■ Software development

■ In-house testing

■ Commissioning

■ Start-up support

■ Service & Support

Industries

Automotive

Brewing and Beverage Industry

Food and Luxury Foods

Dairy Industry

Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals

Feed Industry

Paint and Varnish Industry

Salt, Stones, Earths

Artschwager + Kohl creates and launches software systems for new facilities, extensions and refurbishments.

Solutions for intralogistics

IT and PLC software for ■ High-bay warehouses■ Cassette storage systems■ Ceiling storage systems■ Special warehouses■ Manual storage systems■ Block storage systems■ Order picking ■ Dispatch■ Tracking and tracing■ Forklift control system■ Material flow controller■ Conveyer control systems■ Stacker crane control systems■ Fleet management■ SAP-EWM, SAP-WM, Navision, ...

Solutions for manufacturing + production

IT and PLC software for■ MES solutions■ Machine data acquisition / OEE■ Final packaging■ Palletizing■ Labelling■ Tracking and tracing

Solutions for mechanical engineering companies

Creation of IT and PLC software systems, from small packages up to completely newly developed control systems for machines and plants, gladly in cooperation with your personnel, support during commissioning.

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IntralogisticsNew building, extension, refurbishment

Intralogistics is taking on an ever bigger role in today's manufacturing and production land-scape, due in particular to ever smaller batches and the goal of "one-piece production". The demands placed on intralogistics are rising at an accelerated pace, both in terms of flexibility and continuous adaptation to ever-faster changes in manufacturing and production.

We create software systems for your intralogis-tics to cover exactly these requirements of your business. Our software solutions are used as required in various process stages and automa-tion levels, from goods receipt to dispatch, from SAP / ERP integration to IT solutions down to PLC programming.

We create and modernise warehouse and con-veyor systems, warehouse management systems and material flow control systems, container and pallet conveyor controls, software solutions for mobile handheld scanners and smartphones, and integrate these systems and machines into your SAP/ERP system.

As the worldwide pioneer of SAP-EWM warehouse automation for production plants, we also reliably integrate your intralogistics into SAP.

Wesergold Beverage industry:

Goods receipt, production

orders, palletising centres,

pallet transport, pallet

protection, labelling,

warehouse management sys-

tem, order picking, dispatch

HengstenbergFood industry:

Completeretrofit

of high-bay warehouse with

warehouse management

system, stacker cranes and

pallet conveyer controls,

electrical engineering, drive

technology, security systems

escoSalt:

World'sfirstSAP-EWMfor

pallet warehouse, pallet conveyor control,

materialflowcontrol

Our network of experts

■ E-planning

■ Switch cabinet construction

■ conveyer systems

■ Stacker crane

■ Drive optimisation

■ Image processing

■ Assembly

■ Commissioning

■ Maintenance4

RefurbishmentNew building Expand

Materials handling

•Materialflowcontrol for Stacker crane and conveyor technology

• Fleet management for driverless transport systems and forklifts

• Supply and disposal of production

• Pallet and container conveyor controls

• Overhead conveyor controls

• Forklift terminal solutions

Warehouse

•WMSformanual,semi-auto- mated and fully automated warehouses

• Order picking

• Pick by Light, Pick by Glove

• Production of mixed pallets

• Dispatch

• Customised special warehouse management system

•SAP-WM,SAP-EWM

• IntegrationintoERPsystems, e.g. Navision, FOSS, Oracle, Trend,SAP,...

• Tracking and tracing

Labelling• Client-specific labelling of pallets

• Labelling with tabletop printers

• Labelling with automatic application printers

• RFID labelling

• Central, worldwide label management

Identification

• Software for handheld scanners and smartphones

• Gate scanner for safe and fast loading

• RFID gates for bulk readings

Retrofit

• Stacker crane

• Pallet conveyors

•Electricalengineering• Stacker crane controls

• Pallet conveyor controls

• Drive technology

• Security systems

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ProductionHighly flexible and transparent

escoSalt: MESfortheproductionofsalt

in tubular bags, cartons,

sacks and BigBags, order

management, data acquisiti-

onforOEE,conveyorcontrol,

palletizing management,

integration in ProLeiT Plant IT

andSAP

Today, IT technology is indispensable for effi cient manufacturing and production processes.

A considerable number of companies are faced with the task of signifi cantly modernising their manufacturing and production facilities.

Some companies are overhauling their systems in order to meet the massively increased requi-rements of the legislator with regard to quality standards and batch tracking. Others are doing it to ensure reliable and thus more profi table production in the long term.

The requirements for an effi cient manufacturing and production control system are vastly diffe-rent. This is obviously the case among different industries, but also within the same industry, companies that manufacture and produce more effi ciently are more profi table and a step ahead of competitors.

For these reasons, the majority of companies today do not work with a closed standard MES but with highly flexible, open MES functions. These can be adapted economically and precisely to the individual production, allowing them to achieve the maximum, be it in output, transparency or flexibility.

KALDEWEI Manufacturing industry:

Creation of a complex

high-performance packaging

control system, Power&Free

control,WMS,MFC,labelling,

KukaRobotManagement,

Scada, Reporting

ZKW Automotive:

Production control station for

injection moulding machines

and sputtering machines,

order management, data

acquisition,fleetmanagement

for autonomous robotic carrier.

Artschwager + Kohl setson standards. We deliverbasically for each individually created software all source code with.

This ensures that the compa-nies have the necessary flexibility and Independence, because no production plant can afford to introduce a closed system and operate it for 15-20 years.

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MES solutions

•Managementofordersfor manual, semi-automated and fully automated machines and systems

• Resource management

•Managementofmaterials

•Dataacquisition/OEE• Batch tracking

• IntegrationinSAP/ERP Systems

Manual workstations

• Order management

• Tracking and tracing

• Order picking

• Pick by Light

• Pick by Glove

Labelling

• Client-specific labelling of articles, product packages and pallets

• Labelling of product packages inline during production

• RFID labelling

• Labelling with tabletop printers

• Labelling with automatic application printers

• Central, worldwide label management

Packing

• Winder management for article and order dependent securing of pallets

• Order-dependent data supply of palletizers for layer samples, intermediate layers, number of layers

• Final packaging control systems

Data aquisition / OEE

•Automaticdataacquisition from machines and plants

•Automaticcreationand archiving of weighing notes

•Manualdataacquisitionby operating personnel

• Long-term archiving and processing of data

• Presentation of information with/without order reference / OEE

• Tracking and tracing

• IntegrationinSAP/ERP

Production and manufacturing

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Solutions for theMechanical and plant engineering

We support you in the realisation of your project.

■ Do you need special expertise or personnel reinforcement for your project?

■ Do you need to deliver special software that you don't want to create yourself?

■ Do you need a PLC/IT standard software for your machine/system that you can use again and again in all your future projects?

We would be happy to support you by working in your project team and taking over complete work packages as a subcontractor.

Our core speciality is system development.

We would be pleased to develop an individual control system for your machines and plants for you or together with your specialists in a team, or a supplementary work package for your software systems.

We can contribute our 20 years of experience in the joint development of a software architec-ture. We can invest our expertise, from existing patents to sustainable software architectures, including our experiences with regard to which solution architectures have proven themselves in ongoing operations and which have not.

After the conception phase, we create the software for the work packages that you do not want to realize yourself. We test them in-house and integrate the software into your overall system.

If you wish, we can commission the software with you at your end customer's site.

After completion of the project we are happy to support your specialists.

Mechanical Engineering, Switzerland:

Development of a logistics

management system for a

highspeed overhead conveyer

system for material transport

ofFeragAG,Hinwil,Swiss.

Mechanical Engineering,

Austria:

Development of a logistics ma-

nagement system for

autonomous robot conveyor

for material transport of Servus

Intralogistics,Dornbirn,Au

stria.

Systemhaus, Germany:

Support in the development

of a process control system

for the process industry of

ProLeiTAG,Herzogenaurach,

Germany

We work with products of the companies Microsoft, Siemens and Beckhoff

Our core know-how lies in C#, C++, TSQL, Web-/ASP.Net, App's, S5, S7, TIA and IEC1131-based PLCs.

Please contact us.We would be happy to discuss your project and show you the possibilities.

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Machinery and plant engineering

Control systems

• Development of the plant-wide automation architecture

• Development of the software architecture in the backend, frontend and in the PLC

• Definition of work packages

• Creation of software for backend, frontend, mobile devices, PLCs,

•Communication,SAP/ERP Integration

• In-house and integration test

• Commissioning and start-up support

• Service + Support

• Transfer of know-how

OPC

• Specifying the required functionalities

• Designing the software architecture

• Creating individual OPC servers and clients

• Integration of the OPC server and clients into the software of the mechanical engineering company

• Integration test

• Transfer of know-how

Apps for Smartphones

• Specify the required functionalities and communications

• Designing masks and click dummies

• CreatingtheAppSoftware• Integration test

• Transfer of know-how

Communication

• Specifying the required functionalities

• Designing the software architecture

• Creation of software e.g. for PLC-SAP/EWMcommunication or for High Performance S7 and TIAdrivers

• Integration test

• Transfer of know-how

SAP-WM, SAP-EWM

SAP-iDOC, RFC, BAPI

Siemens S5, S7, TIA

Beckhoff TwinCAT 3

OPC Server & Client

TCP, UDP, WebServices

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Our customers are very important to us.

Our mission is to create highly innovative and robust system software and to put it reliably into operation.

We are very aware of the fact that software systems installed in industrial environments are in use for a long time and also require constant maintenance, due either to the introduction of new technologies (for example, industry 4.0) or modifi cations in the production facilities when new machines are purchased.

We are convinced that the best way to support our customers is to be there for them when they need us. Whether it is for advice when discussing modernisation options or troubleshooting in the event of a malfunction.

That is why we provide service and support for ongoing operations of our customers, available up to 24/7.

WIBERG … we would like to thank you for your commit-

ment and the performance of your team.

We are thrilled that our plant is fi nally running

at full steam ...

You and your team have fi nally achieved

something that seemed impossible un� l now.

In this way, we fi nally have a system that runs

trouble-free, greatly facilita� ng the work of the

staff while achieving no� ceable cost savings.

Of course we will gladly recommend your

company at any � me.

esco ... Looking back, we would like to express our

special thanks once again for the extremely

professional and absolutely punctual replacement

of our old warehouse management system and

the fi rst-� me introduc� on of an SAP/EWM system.

... A� er several years of trouble-free opera� on,

we are delighted with the smooth coopera� on

between our SAP-EWM and the IT and automa� on

solu� ons you have created...

... We are happy to recommend your company to

others when the opportunity presents itself.

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esco ... Looking back, we would like to express our

special thanks once again for the extremely

Voices of our customers

SERVUS ... I would like to express my thanks to you for the

ongoing success of the projects.

... The coopera� on with your company has been

excellent. The in-depth industry-specifi c exper� se

of your project staff deserves special men� on.

... In this way, all deadlines of the executed pro-

jects could be adhered to precisely ... and integra-

ted solu� ons that perfectly meet our customers'

requirements.

We ... will gladly recommend your company to

others.

ConnectChemical... we would like to thank you for the perfect

execu� on of our project "Virtualisa� on of a

batch system with H1 drivers" ...

... Thus we are now able to use the most modern

and cost-eff ec� ve PCs for our process control

system OS-NT with VD900 ...

... Your deep and extraordinary exper� se

now gives us � me for future planning and

considerably extends the amor� za� on period.

You are welcome to name our company as a

reference.

WeserGold ... we would like to ... thank you for the

excellent performance of your employees.

... Here we would like to include the high

fl exibility you off er us ...

We have never regre� ed our decision to

modernise the IT and automa� on of our fi ve

produc� on sites with your company.

We thank you for having supported us on our

way to become one of the leading companies

in the beverage industry, always reliable and

professional.

We are happy to recommend your company to

others.

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Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions

Artschwager + Kohl Software GmbHGustav-Hertz-Straße 991074 Herzogenaurach, Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)9132 83 666 - 0Fax: +49 (0)9132 83 666 - 50

www.artschwager-kohl.deinfo@artschwager-kohl.de

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