ITS' Solution Improves Batch Consistency, Quality and Reduces Waste Levels for Hammerite Hammerite Products Limited, a division of ICI Paints, recently chose Industrial Technology Systems Ltd (ITS) of Middlesbrough to modify its paint manufacturing plant at Prudhoe, Northumberland, to accommodate a new production line. This process has involved transferring the production from the facility in Slough to the plant in the North East of England. As part of the modification, Hammerite Products required a reliable, cost effective system to automate the production process. Rockwell’s ProcessLogix (PLX) system was chosen as a cost-effective integrated process solution, modelled on the traditional distributed control system (DCS) computer- based model. As the first solution provider in the UK to i

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