Challenges facing the paint and coatings industry
The paint and coatings industry is facing a growing number of challenges. Stricter environmental and emission standards demand the use of low-VOC or water-based formulations. At the same time, quality and traceability requirements, along with legal compliance, are increasing across the entire value chain.
Sustainability is playing an ever more significant role: Resource-conserving production techniques, the application of eco-friendly additives and the integration of circular economy concepts are indispensable nowadays. At the same time, digitalization is opening up entirely new opportunities. State-of-the-art production facilities require high levels of automation and modular processes that connect seamlessly with MES, ERP and labor management systems.
Additionally, the demand for maximum flexibility continues to grow. Manufacturers must be able to produce a wide range of product variants efficiently – from raw material acceptance and recipe development to packaging. To overcome these challenges, the industry is increasingly turning to integrated automation solutions that control, monitor and document all the process steps digitally. The result: Greater transparency, higher efficiency and the necessary future capacity to survive in a dynamic market environment.
Forward-thinking solutions for the paint and coatings industry
Are you currently facing the aforesaid challenges and looking for a solution for your paint and coatings production that:
- facilitates, safeguards and documents your processes,
- optimizes your entire value-added chain,
- increases the productivity and flexibility of your company,
- helps make your business more profitable
- and accompanies you on your journey to building the industry of the future?
Plant iT is a modular IT system with integrated MES functionalities for all process areas in the paint and coatings industry. This industry-specific feature combined with cutting-edge information technology enables data transparency from the operational to the planning level and at all stages of value creation. The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) provides production managers with new opportunities to overview the entire process chain, from the acceptance of raw materials to the packaged product. This enhanced transparency optimizes processes, improves product quality, saves energy and raw materials and increases the availability of machines and plants. The modularity of the Plant iT process control system supports gradual implementation in the company. Existing plant technology and processes can thus be integrated. ProLeiT has extensive project experience and numerous testimonials in the field of consulting and MES solution implementation in the paint and coatings industry.
Success stories from our customers and partners
ProLeiT has decades of experience in working closely with leading companies of the paint and coatings industry. Through numerous automation projects and the implementation of MES solutions, we have become a trusted partner to the industry. Close collaboration with our customers, the joint development of innovative concepts and the successful realization of complex requirements motivate us every day to actively shape the future of networked production.
Learn more about our customers
Discover fascinating reference projects and be inspired by success stories that illustrate how leading companies optimize their production with ProLeiT.
Your contact for the paint and coatings production of the future
Verena Mersmann
Branch Leader Chemical & Life Science Business,
ProLeiT GmbH, Germany
E-Mail: proleitsales.request(at)se.com
Plant iT - the automation solution for the paint and coatings industry
From the acceptance and storage of raw materials, the recipe-controlled mixing and production of paints and coatings and the integration of various skids / units or inline mixers to the filling, packaging and dispatching of goods – in cooperation with customers, machine suppliers and universities, we have defined standard interfaces for process and quality data for each machine of a filling and packaging plant. This also benefits the paint and coatings industry. Thanks to this trend-setting procedure, it is, for example, possible to implement integrated Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) analyses. Furthermore, coordination of the higher-order process control is enabled by recording all machine data until it is transferred to internal logistics and by mapping the flow of information for individual process steps.
MES and PLS are often seen as two separate systems in one production plant. Plant iT prevents this separation. Unnecessary interfaces and duplicate administration are avoided thanks to the provision of MES functions in the Plant iT system. Furthermore, this provides the perfect foundations for integrated information processing and increased efficiency for system operation, maintenance and repairs as well as future extensions.
Current product highlights
With Plant iT, we provide a high-performance solution for the paint and coatings industry. Our developers are constantly expanding our portfolio with new products and innovative features designed to make your production faster, more transparent and safer.
Take a look at the many added values Plant iT offers
Plant iT is the modular process control system from ProLeiT GmbH and has been deployed throughout the process engineering industry in more than 110 countries for over 37 years. From operating data acquisition, process control technology, liquid handling and batch systems to functions for complete, location-independent production management (MES) and integration of ERP, LIMS and maintenance systems – Plant iT enables continuous control and monitoring of all these processes.
Thanks to a central engineering environment and optional modules, Plant iT can be expanded flexibly to meet various needs. Plant iT complies with the principle of "parameterization instead of programming". This means that individual programming is essentially replaced by the parameterization of technical and technological functions. Plant iT's system architecture offers maximum flexibility for changes, even during production, without the need to shut down operations. This time-saving approach offers our customers a distinct competitive advantage.