1. Premium Success Story Success Story identity
Manufacturing
Market sector : Wood processing
Customer : S C M Italy
SCM group is the worldwide leader in the woodworking machinery sector. SCM has installed 2 million of machines in more than 100 countries.
Application : Automatization of a flexible island for wood paneling process (1998 / 1999)
Customer requirements :
The woodworking sector needs more and more performant machines (scan time) using the last technology, all this at low cost.
These machines even high tech need to be simple to use for the operator (HMI).
The automation control equipment to be competitive have to be scalable (memory, I/O size, scan time,…), adaptable (HW/SW openness) and easy to program (simple configuration, re-usable modules,…)
MACHINE BUILDER

2. Premium Success Story The reasons of success / customer benefits
Manufacturing
Good customer feeling for Schneider Electric (partner for some SCM projects), and capable to give worldwide high level services
A large Schneider catalog allowing to answer to every SCM machine :
simple machine (drilling,…) : Micro, Micro + HMI
more complex machine (windowframe, …) : Premium + HMI, Premium + NUM + HMI
Some PLCs :
well dimensionned (size, progressive range Micro/Premium, scaled & competitive prices)
performant (scan time, memory)
easy to program (‘intuitive’ PL7)
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Argument N
MACHINE BUILDER

3. Premium Success Story Success Story architecture
NUM1050
NUM1060
PCX
Magelis
Flexible island SCM
Premium
Micro