AutoMatic Highlights

1992

• Founded in Hildesheim, Germany
• Analysis software
  • Statistics programs
  • Monitoring/control network
  • In accordance with official verification regulations

1993

• Delivery of the first check weighing machines for parcel services
• Europe-wide approval for official verification-capable check weighing machines (mainly used in the foodstuffs industry) at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Metrology

1994:

• Expansion with volume measurement for parcel services
• Check weighing machines for
  • Leading drinks filling machines manufacturers
  • Foodstuffs
  • Chemicals
  • Pharmaceuticals
• Sorting units
  • Pushers, blowing nozzles, flaps
• International representatives in Holland and Austria

1995

• Delivery of line separators
• ‘ALINE’ process control system with network for check weighing machines and packing robots

1996

• Development of the Presse-Grosso application ‘MISCHA’

1997

• 5 Grosso pilot projects in Germany

1998

• Relocation to Hanover, Germany
• Expansion of project management for customer-specific solutions
• Expansion in logistics department
  • Transport
  • Remission
  • Order picking
• Properties inspection
  • Image processing
• Additional areas
  • Logistics services companies
  • Cosmetics
• Implementation of automation of complete processes

1999

• Grosso applications in B, D, DK, E, NL, P

2000:

Analysis and prognosis tools for Presse-Grosso applications

Maintenance of 25 check weighing machines in total (partially from 1994) in Thailand and Korea

2001

• Application ‘LISA’ for Beiersdorf AG (OCR technology properties detection, classification and sorting of cosmetics articles)
• Line consolidation
• Commissioning of 5 check weighing machines and process integration at DB Breweries, New Zealand
• Commissioning of 3 check weighing machines and process integration at Malteria Quilmes brewery, Argentina

2002

• Customer-specific Presse-Grosso application in France
• Opening of ‘AutoMatic Logistic Systems’, Belgium

2003

• Expansion of ‘LISA’ for processing the complete process

2004

• Partnership as systems provider together with Sartorius AG; expansion of product range (stat. weighing machines)
• ‘LEICA’, a check weighing machine for small-scale checking applications
• Expansion of product development
• Expansion of product range to include handling automation; project ‘Danone’

2005

• Double-track applications in Presse-Grosso area in France and Belgium

2006

• Certified Solution Partner with Sartorius AG, Göttingen, Germany
• Service hotline for products by Sartorius GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
• Dosing systems for Finzelberg Co. (vegetable extracts for the pharmaceutics industry with integration into higher-level process controls and communication via TCP/IP
• Provision of check weighing machines and manual work areas to Essex Co

2007

• Dosing system for Topell Co. for mg-exact dosing of grinding powders
• Non-contact weighing via LEICA for achievement of precision < +/- 10 mg at Playmobil Co
• Dosing system in Exx-Zone 1 at Honeywell Co
• Optimisation of goods received and dispatched monitoring with static weighing machines and customer-specific mapping of the process for Elastogran Co. including networking and analysis software for office PCs
• Weighing and classification of small-calibre cartridges at a precision of +/- 2 mg including strict conditions with regard to handling of explosives
• Project together with the University of Hanover for 40 initial measuring stations (expanded later to 160 measuring stations) for determining loss of moisture in useful plants

2008

• Europe-wide approval of an innovative check weighing machine for transport subject to official verification at NMI in Holland
• Provision of check weighing machines and sorting units featuring increased resistance standards due to an acidic environment to Johnson Controls for the production of automobile batteries

2009

• Provision of check weighing machines and sorting units featuring increased resistance standards due to an acidic environment to a second Johnson Controls location. Thanks to positive experience, a significant expansion of the initial order was implemented at this location.

2010

• Final monitoring systems for Austria’s largest fruit juice and energy drinks producers

2011

• Quality control projects for wine and bird feed filling companies and logistics services companies

2012

• Additional project for automobile battery quality control at Johnson Controls
• Upgrade and modernisation of check weighing machines to the state of the art at new Zealand’s largest brewery

2013

• Check weighing machines for quality controls of manually assembled articles for a supplier to the automobile industry
• Integration of a check weighing machine with a process line and connection with ProfiNet communication at a manufacturer of ultra-clean infusion solutions

Current projects:

• Provision of 20 official verification-capable dynamic check weighing machines, networking via TCP/IP (OPC communication) and integration with the process control system via Ethernet to a European candy producer
• Provision of 3 dosing/recipe systems including hoisting systems for containers up to 2t to a paint producer
• Production lot weighing system featuring increased identification, production lot traceability , and password management standards for a pharmaceutics producer
• Barrel weighing for a private brewery
• Parallel silo weighing of multiple separately standing silos via TCP/IP via analysis software on the PCs of a foodstuffs manufacturer
• Automation of a repacking process at Unilever
• Storage logistics at a large courier services company