DWK Drahtwerke Köln produces high quality wires for various applications. Regardless of the product – every coil has to go through the pickling line. However, as the applications of the finished coils are so varied, the system must be highly flexible in order to be able to finish each wire coil individually according to customer requirements.
The previous Simatic S5 control system did not offer the desired flexibility, which is why DWK commissioned the retrofit of the pickling line to Simatic S7. ABF completely renewed the control logic (PLC) of the system and converted it so that manufacturing with batch size 1 is now possible.
Read our success story to find out how quickly ABF completed the conversion and what other benefits this now brings for DWK.
