Hatch Systems, a business division of Hatch Africa, has been awarded the Best Integrated FactorySuite Solution Award at the Invensys Showcase held in September 2002 in the United States. The award was based on a manufacturing execution system (MES) at the SAB Ibhayi brewery in Port Elizabeth in which Hatch Systems integrated a number of Wonderware and other third party products to support SAB business processes. Hatch is a leading global consulting, engineering, technologies, information systems, project and construction management organisation.
The Wonderware Open competition is an annual event in which applications are judged by industry experts, trade editors and the company's own technical experts to select the best in four categories of entries.
SAB's Ibhayi Brewery, which took only 18 months to reach production from a greenfield site, is setting new production standards on a worldwide scale and is widely considered to be the current state-of-the-art or benchmark brewery in the world. The scale and nature of the implementation of the brewery's MES and scada systems required the combined efforts of OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) based in Europe as well as a number of South African system integrators. In partnership with SAB, Hatch Systems was responsible for the overall role of manufacturing systems integrator.
Hatch Systems designed and delivered the manufacturing execution system, which interfaces with supply chain planning and manages batch scheduling, batch execution, standards and recipe control, plant monitoring as well as product and quality tracking. The system also controls realtime inventory management, full batch traceability and product genealogy, quality management, statistical process control, process wide reporting and exception management.
Delegations from the USA, Europe and Australia have all attested to Ibhayi as being the world's best brewery and the standard by which others will be judged in terms of their manufacturing capability, manufacturing systems, organisational design and asset care.
Ibhayi is one of seven breweries in South Africa owned by SAB, the country's largest brewer. SAB is the second largest brewer worldwide with 111 breweries in 24 countries.
About Hatch
Hatch is a leading global consulting, engineering, technologies, information systems, project and construction management organisation. The business units and affiliates of the Hatch Group provide a full range of technology-driven, value-adding solutions and services to clients in the mining, minerals, metals, manufacturing, infrastructure and energy sectors through a network of more than 40 permanent offices worldwide. Programs and projects under management have an aggregate value in excess of $15 billion. Hatch is an employee-owned company of more than 4000 employees.
For more information contact Bev Shipley, Hatch Marketing, 011 239 5728, www.hatch.ca
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