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 US.
The award was based on a manufacturing execution system (MES) at the SAB Ltd Ibhayi brewery in Port Elizabeth in which Hatch Systems integrated a number of Wonderware and other third-party products to support SAB`s 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 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 real time inventory management, full batch traceability and product genealogy, quality management, statistical process control, process-wide reporting and exception management.
Delegations from the US, 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 SA owned by SAB, the country`s largest brewer. SAB is the second largest brewer worldwide with 111 breweries in 24 countries.
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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 4 000 employees.
Hatch was the first major engineering firm in North America to have its management systems certified on ISO 9001-94 standards, and was named one of the 50 Best Managed Private Companies in Canada by Financial Post in each of the three years Hatch applied for the distinction. Hatch has a reputation for the successful scale-up of process technology, and the implementation of innovative solutions to technical challenges. Hatch provides their clients with engineering, procurement, project management, construction management and start-up assistance.
Wonderware
Wonderware, an operating unit of Invensys plc, pioneered the use of Microsoft Windows-based human machine-interface (HMI) automation software for manufacturing operation systems. The company`s mission is to provide integrated software suites that drive the customer`s strategic, planning and operational decision-making, based on real-time plant floor information. The Wonderware Open Hall of Fame is an exclusive group of past winners whose applications were judged to be outstanding examples of Wonderware products by industry experts, trade editors and members of Wonderware Marketing.