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Fully-automated paint
Jotun develop, produce and sell
cost-effective paint and coatings
products, and provide customer
manufacturing process service and technical support, to
residental, marine and industrial
markets worldwide.
When Jotun modernised one ” The main reason for
“ duction process from a control
room,” explains Jan Lorentzen. No
of its Norwegian production
plants, it chose a system using Novotek as our one is present in the rooms where
the paint is manufactured. Produc-
based on Proficy™ Batch. supplier so often over tion is recipe-controlled, and the
recipe for each batch is transferred
The fully-automated plant the years is their from a master database. Novotek
manufactures as much as not only supplied the software for
a plant with five times the
ability to understand the batch system at Vindals plant,
labour force. our needs and but also handled all programming
and commissioning.
Jotun is a Norwegian Group with
collaborate,” TWENTY CAN DO THE WORK OF ONE HUN-
4,500 employees and 36 production Jan Lorentzen, Senior Engineer, Jotun DRED
plants in Europe, the Middle East, At the Vindals plant, 12-13 million
Southeast Asia, Australia, South litres of paint are manufactured ev-
Africa and the USA. The Group has in marine coatings for the shipping ery year, and about 20 people work
an annual turnover of about NOK industry in the rest of the world. at the plant. Compare this with the
5.5 billion. second plant in Sandefjord, which is
“Our largest product area in the There are four production plants in not as automated and manufactures
Scandinavian countries is decorative Norway, two of which are in Sand- several products which, in terms of
paints - interior and exterior house efjord, home to the Group’s head volume, correspond approximately
paints,” says Jan Lorentzen, Senior office. One of the plants in Sandef- to the same volume of paint but
Engineer in charge of evaluating jord, Vindals plant, was converted a require about 100 employees.
and buying automation services. The few years ago into a fully-automated “Full automation allows a small staff
decorative paint segment answers for batch plant, built around Proficy™ to handle production,” notes Jan
most of the turnover in the Middle Batch. Lorentzen. The Vindals plant manu-
East as well. We are the market leader “The operators run the entire pro- factures large batches every time, and
SUMMARY
COMPANY
Jotun
SOLUTIONS
this batch system has proven to be years is their ability to understand Automation solutions
quite profitable. Proficy™ Batch is our needs and collaborate,” con- • S88 batch execution
used as a control system that is part cludes Jan Lorentzen. “Obviously
of a master system and is integrated Novotek’s products are good, but • Business system integration
with, among other systems, Jotun’s the deciding factor is the people at • HMI/SCADA
business system. Raw material status the company - their flexibility and
reports are produced continuously, customer orientation.”
for instance, which makes things PRODUCTS
easier for the procurement organi- • Proficy Batch
sation. • Proficy iFIX
LONGSTANDING PARTNERSHIP
Jotun’s partnership with Novotek BENEFITS
began back in 1988. Today, the com- • Fully automated S88 batch
pany has software units from Novo- production
tek at several production plants. In
• Recipes stored in database
addition to Jotun’s plants in Sandef-
jord, Novotek products are used in • Production tracking and tracing
Frederikstad, Dubai, Thailand and at
• Raw material status reports
the plant being built on the outskirts
of Shanghai in China. • Integration with business system
“The main reason for using Novotek
• Produce five times as much per
as our supplier so often over the
person
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