Batch system migration for toothpaste factory in Mexico
Mission Hills, San José de Iturbide, GTO, MX
It is a multinational company present in 222 countries, dedicated to the manufacturing, distribution and sale of personal care and cleaning products.
Oral Care's Inbatch system was the most critical system at the Mission Hills - Colgate Mexico plant. Which was running on an old version of Wonderware based on Windows XP operating systems, which were close to the end of their life cycle, leaving the client without support in the event of any eventuality.
Needs
Proposed by MES Automation
Develop a functional specification in order to detail the activities, times, execution plan, deliverables and requirements that allow:
- Server virtualization
- Define the new operating station infrastructure based on thin clients
- Batch Wonderware Application Migration
- Define the test protocol plan
Benefits obtained
70% reduction in stoppage incidents caused by the system
Reduction of maintenance on operating stations through the use of ThinClient without a hard drive or operating system
Centralization of application changes
Implementation of redundancy that reduced risks of downtime due to physical hardware failures
Decommissioning of obsolete software
Automated smart reports
36 operation stations and 13 servers were virtualized
Application upgrade (System Platform, Inbatch, 30 InTouch, and 30 reports)
Implementation of ThinManager for centralized management and administration of applications through ThinClient
Originally published on July 13, 2021, updated on August 10, 2021