Our smart factory portfolio provides you with a competitive advantage. We improve existing processes in your production and offer services to increase efficiency and productivity. The connection of machines via the IIoT enables seamless communication and real-time data exchanges, allowing you to make data driven decisions. HEITEC provides integrated platforms for data management and analysis that promote digital transformation. Our middleware solutions serve as an interface between systems, improve data exchanges and optimise production processes.
Tangible
Our Smart Factory Starter Kit makes Industry 4.0 tangible - the first step towards intelligent production begins with a product that combines the future and efficiency.
Michael Rögner| Head of Smart Factory
Our StarterKit is tailored to your needs
The StarterKit connects your machines to our HEITEC Solution Centre and provides an overview of the machine status and processes in your plant. By scanning a QR code, the machine can be integrated into our cloud application and data can be conveniently recorded. The scope of delivery includes the Siemens IOT 2050 gateway required for control as well as optional sensors for measuring electricity or compressed air. Our StarterKit is available in three different hardware packages and can therefore be customised to suit your business and individual requirements.
Our StarterKit offers your company a basic solution for digitising industrial processes and benefiting from the advantages of the IIoT.
Product Carbon Footprint
Optimise your product carbon footprint (PCF) with our plug and play system for energy recording and quantity monitoring. We offer state-of-the-art KPIs for meaningful reports that give you in-depth insights. Our system calculates the CO2 equivalent of the energy media used per unit so that you can make precise and environmentally conscious decisions.
Machine data acquisition
Our solution for machine data acquisition enables the connection of all machine types from the brownfield via digital and analogue inputs. With real-time condition monitoring and OEE analyses, you can optimise your production and ensure maximum machine utilisation.
OPC UA connectivity
With OPC UA connectivity, we offer reliable and secure data acquisition for your machines and production processes. Our solution ensures seamless communication and optimal integration into your existing infrastructure, so that you receive precise and up-to-date information about the status of your systems at all times.
Energy consumption
Record the electrical power consumption of your systems to ensure transparent consumption and emissions calculations. Thanks to detailed cost transparency, we enable you to directly determine the energy-related production costs so that you can make precise and well-founded decisions to optimise your energy consumption.
Connectivity
Our connectivity solution provides a self-sufficient communication link between your machine and the HEITEC Solution Centre. Thanks to LTE connectivity and the lean MQTTS protocol, we guarantee reliable and efficient data transmission that networks your processes seamlessly and securely.
Compressed air monitoring
Our compressed air monitoring precisely records compressed air consumption for transparent determination of consumption and emissions. This comprehensive monitoring allows leaks to be detected and rectified at an early stage, which enables cost-efficient production. This means you always have control over your energy consumption and actively contribute to more sustainable production.
Siemens IoT 2050 Gateway
The powerful Siemens IoT 2050 Gateway is designed for flexible scaling, allowing individual customer requirements to be implemented effortlessly and efficiently. It provides the ideal platform for customised IoT solutions, ensuring optimum adaptability and future-proofing of your projects.
Connected
Our HEITEC Solution Centre is the digital key to industrial networking - it transforms data into valuable insights and paves the way to smart manufacturing.
Michael Rögner| Head of Smart Factory
The HEITEC Solution Centre offers customised solutions
Experience the HEITEC Solution Centre - your access to innovative Industry 4.0 solutions. Use the powerful and scalable platform, which is customised to your requirements and allows you to integrate your own applications with ease. With our expertise in mechanical engineering, we support you in making your production more efficient and future-proof. The strong HEITEC network gives you access to a wide range of smart tools and apps that provide you with in-depth insights into the status and performance of your machines. Detailed analyses and real-time measurements provide you with valuable data to optimise your production processes and sustainably reduce costs.
Our platform for your solutions: HEITEC Solution Centre
HEITEC Solution Centre Hub
The HEITEC Solution Center Hub Service acts as the hub of your platform and enables centralised management of all connected applications. In addition, you can use the hub to provide your customers with a central point of entry and seamless navigation through your entire application portfolio via an app switcher.
HeiFactory Machine Viewer App
Improve the transparency and productivity of your machines with OEE as the most important KPI metric. Use powerful levers for targeted continuous improvement processes (CIP) and benefit from the Widget Creator for customised evaluations. Our solution is available both as SaaS and as an IE app and combines the most important machine information in a single app.
HeiEnergy App
Monitor and reduce the CO2 footprint of your production by precisely measuring and monitoring all media consumption. Identify action levers to save energy and costs and determine the CO2 consumption of your entire production. Our solution, available as SaaS, supports you in turning today's energy-saving measures into tomorrow's competitive advantages.
HeiFactory Condition Monitoring App
The HEITEC HeiFactory Condition Monitoring App offers you customised dashboards that are specifically tailored to your needs. Whether individual adaptations or standard dashboards for machine data - we have everything you need to efficiently monitor and optimise your systems.
HEITEC Data Analytics App
The HEITEC Data Analytics App seamlessly integrates Grafana as a powerful dashboard engine into the HEITEC Solution Centre ecosystem. This means that there are no limits to how your data can be visualised: whether shop floor monitors or management analyses - whether from InfluxDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Prometheus and Graphite. Grafana makes it easy to create the right dashboard for every application.
HEITEC Asset Management
With Asset Management, you can map and manage both ISA 95 production hierarchies and your customers' individual asset hierarchies as digital twins via a graphical user interface. It enables all assets to be linked with other applications for cross-platform management and documents changes in machine management as a basis for predictive maintenance.
HEITEC User Management
Our user service enables centralised user management with a standardised login (single sign-on), oAuth2 as a protocol and configuration and authentication of users with interfaces to higher-level systems such as Active Directory B2C, connection to existing services such as Azure B2B and clear management of users, roles and access rights.
HEITEC Document Management
With the help of the Document Management Service, it is possible to provide cross-system storage, management and indexing of files and attachments in the form of document management to replace outdated systems that still deliver machine instructions on paper or CD-ROMs.
HEITEC Device Management
Our device management allows all gateways and sensors to be organised and managed centrally. In particular, references can be edited or deleted, and new gateways and sensors can be created and assigned to an asset.
HEITEC IDX
seamlessly connects the worlds of production and IT - an MES-enabled connectivity platform that enables cost-efficient production, seamless traceability and significant quality improvements, thus setting new standards.
Michael Rögner| Head of Smart Factory
Optimisation of your production processes thanks to MES middleware
The implementation of IDX or suitable third-party tools ensures transparency on the shop floor, which enables improved monitoring and control of processes. In addition, seamless traceability of production data is guaranteed, making it possible to track information from the machine to the ERP system. SAP integration and consulting support your company in efficiently linking your systems. Finally, powerful connectors are used to promote interoperability between IT and OT systems in order to ensure smooth data exchanges and collaboration.
HEITEC IDX
With our powerful middleware for Industrial Data Exchange (IDX), we enable our customers to find the right solution for their individual problems from the wide range of MES functions. Modular, scalable and easy to use, IDX is already impressing customers in the industrial, mobility, food and mining sectors with the seamless traceability of quality-related production data
Convince yourself of our industry-specific expertise. Our successfully completed projects show how we work closely with our customers to implement cost-cutting, production-enhancing and customised solutions.
Our medical imaging client required a streamlined solution for deploying and updating radiology software across multiple hospital sites. The goal was to develop scripts and tools that would enable automated remote deployment to ensure radiology systems were always up to date and operating efficiently without disruption to critical medical services. This project required a strong focus on automation, system monitoring and remote configuration capabilities to support the demanding requirements of a medical environment.
System modernization and administration without risk
This project involved the virtualisation of the automation and IT infrastructure of Solupharm Pharmazeutische Erzeugnisse GmbH. The main task was to modernise an existing production line by converting physical IT resources into virtual machines to ensure greater flexibility, reliability and lower costs.
Carl Schlenk AG is a leading international manufacturer of metal powders, effect pigments and metal foils. With a new building, Schlenk also wanted to reorganise its logistics processes in production with the aim of gaining an overview of material consumption and material receipts in real time.
Optimisation of cycle times with the help of the digital twin
A leading international company in the fields of variable camshaft phasing units and transmission valves commissioned HEITEC to virtually commission an existing plant in order to identify potentials with the help of the digital twin on the basis of a cycle time optimisation measure and thus initiate targeted retrofit measures. In addition, technologies from the field of special machinery and plant engineering such as bulk material separation with 3D image recognition, belt and film conveying, new drive and clamping processes as well as software-in-the-loop with Siemens PLCSIM Advanced and Epson robot systems posed new challenges.
Holopack Verpackungstechnik specialises in the contract filling of cosmetic and pharmaceutical products. Efficient filling technology plays a very important economic role here. Holopack was looking for a solution to increase production capacities in the manufacture of sterile and non-sterile, low to high viscosity pharmaceuticals. An intelligent automation solution with a batch management system was required to control the system - including a high-performance homogeniser.
Renner Etikettiertechnik is an internationally oriented supplier of professional labelling systems for the food and beverage industry. The automation specialist developed new technology components for the newly developed labelling system and integrated them into the overall system control. This was then tested on the digital model in order to recognise and rectify errors at an early stage.
Latest automation technology for Duscholux production systems
Duscholux is one of the world's leading manufacturers of sanitary facilities. As a long-standing partner for the automation of production systems, HEITEC modernised the control technology. The aim was to further increase plant availability and production reliability.
Conception of a digital twin for Kroenert GmbH & Co. KG
Kroenert GmbH & Co. KG is an internationally active manufacturer of coating, printing and laminating systems. The Hamburg-based company with over 110 years of tradition supplies turnkey system solutions in coating technology for web materials such as paper, film and foil. The product range includes complete systems as well as an extensive programme of winders and unwinders, more than 60 modular application systems as well as dryers, humidifiers and laminating units. Kroenert commissioned Heitec to generate a digital twin for the winders and unwinders to improve development, production and commissioning. At the same time, the simulation had to be able to be parameterised in real time in order to do justice to the high variability of the machinery.
Increased productivity through real-time communication with SAP
The Netzsch Group is a globally active family-owned mechanical engineering and equipment manufacturing company. The company built a new production facility in Selb for the manufacture and assembly of devices for thermal analysis, thereby expanding its capacity by 60 per cent. As the devices are increasingly geared towards customised requirements, Netzsch has streamlined its processes and geared them more efficiently towards individual production up to batch size 1, quality and efficiency. To achieve this, all processes had to be networked with each other.
Our service portfolio ranges from automation and plant and special machine construction to electronics and end-to-end digitalisation solutions. Over 1,200 employees throughout the HEITEC Group guarantee expertise and customer proximity.
HEITEC offers end-to-end solutions, products and services in the fields of plant and special machine construction, automation, digitalisation and electronics - from digital models to 24/7 service.
We take care of the automation of your production processes - tailored to your needs. With over 300 turnkey systems installed worldwide, we offer the necessary expertise.
We offer customised electronics solutions. Our experts have in-depth, specialised technical knowledge and are familiar with industry-specific requirements.
