Wiegand-Glas, a family-owned business and one of Germany’s top three container glass manufacturers, has three mainstays: environmental protection, sustainability, and innovation.

Within the industry, the new plant in Schleusingen – one of four plants belonging to the tradition-rich company that outputs over eight-million glass containers for the food and beverage industry every day – is already considered to be one of the most advanced in Europe and in the top echelon worldwide in terms of environmental protection and the use of cutting-edge technologies.  Objective: Integrated automation concept

As supplier of the plant-wide control system, one of Siemens’ tasks was to coordinate the individual OEMs. Siemens also ensured uniform standards for the hardware and software technologies and the interfaces used.

Simatic PCS 7 is ready to go as an open, high-performance, and highly available system based on standards. Combined with network technology from the same company, it forms a reliable whole. This is extremely important when all conceivable disciplines have to be aligned with one another: batch, furnace, feeder, etc., but also auxiliary installations including the cooling system, filter system, water treatment, and heat recovery – not to mention the integration of building services from Siemens Smart Infrastructure. 

At Europe’s most advanced container glass factory located in Schleusingen, Germany, Wiegand-Glas relies on an integrated automation concept based on the Siemens’ PCS 7 process control system