The Umicore Germany Havana factory is an important part of Umicore's global production network, located in Hanau, Hesse, Germany, adjacent to Frankfurt. The factory focuses on the recycling, refining of precious metals, and the production of catalysts, and is committed to providing sustainable material solutions.
The factory actively fulfills its sustainable development commitments. The MES manufacturing execution system jointly built with Wellthinic Technology comprehensively optimizes the production process of the Havana factory through Wellthinic Technology advanced MES solution, improves operational efficiency, ensures product quality, strictly complies with German and EU environmental protection regulations, reduces carbon emissions and waste emissions, and contributes to global environmental protection and the green economy.
Solution Description:
Adopting the Opcenter EXPR standard product solution, it focuses on the monitoring of the automated reaction process, the capture and recording of key parameters, the intelligent control and optimization of key links, and the monitoring of the enterprise's core cost factors. The system ensures the accuracy and stability of the process by real-time monitoring of key parameters such as temperature, PH, and conductivity, optimizes equipment scheduling, maximizes resource utilization, and improves production efficiency. Through the MOM component, the MES system is highly integrated with SAP and LIMS systems, helping the factory achieve quality control and traceability, providing real-time feedback on key information such as material loss and cost-output ratio, and displaying intelligent statistics, assisting the factory in tracking core cost factors. This solution provides the enterprise with the visualization and optimization support of the entire production process, helping to achieve efficient and accurate intelligent production operations.
Implementation Effect:
Completely realized the electronic process, reduces the dependence on paper documents, improves the information transfer efficiency, and reduces management costs.
Broke through the barriers between informatization and operation technology, realizes seamless data interaction and automated instruction execution, and improves production efficiency and accuracy.
Established a unified production standard and process specification to ensure the synchronous execution of global factories and improve the consistency and controllability of product quality.
Created a benchmark case in the industry, provides replicable successful experience for subsequent promotion, and promotes the enterprise's digital transformation and upgrading.
Cooperative Projects and History:
2024, Established a digital factory prototype for Havana factory in Germany
2025 till now, Rolled it out to Changshu factory in China
