Lever Vietnam: Apply SIEMENS automation technology for shampoo plant at Cu Chi
In recent years, growth rate of Viet Nam economy keeps at high level about 7-8% per year. With a stable political regime and fast development of Viet Nam economy have made people lives changing remarkably. Therefore, the demand on consumer goods is raising strongly especially beauty and health care products including hair products, skin care, teeth care...
Unilever is the leading group in producing consuming goods over the world. In Viet Nam market, Unilever is known through famous brand name LUX, ORGANICS, SUNSIL, CLEAR, DOVE, LIFEBOY for hair, POND’S, HAZERLINE, VASELLINE for skin, p/s, CLOSE UP for teeth, cleaning product as OMO, VISO,SUNLIGHT, COMFORT, VIM, and food products as KNORR, LIPTON. Catching the demand of Viet Nam market, Lever has built new shampoo production factory in the Northwest Cu Chi, Ho Chi Minh City.
Consumer good is the hard market, Producers not only ensure the quality of products, safety for health but also improve formula continuously to give new products in the shortest time including hair products. Because of this reason, Lever Viet Nam decided to invest a high automatic production line applied advanced technology on the world, ensure safe investment, products quality, as well as flexible production., How to decrease cost of project investment is a problem all enterprises are interested in. To balance between the guarantee system quality and decrease cost of project investment is a hard problem every enterprises have to face. From the problem, Lever Viet Nam- SIEMENS - CAC Co., Ltd has cooperation together.
To meet Level’s high requires, automation and drives section- Representatives of Siemens in Viet Nam solve this problem by applying DCS technology integrated with automatic control for new shampoo production line. Simatic batch of Siemens is a modern DCS apply new technology of automation and information technology which can bring much benefits for customers.
Moreover, the ability of carrying the solution in Viet Nam also is the key factor influenced investor’s decide. Develop the partners in Viet Nam, Siemens has achieved great success when brings to customer much benefits such as decreasing cost of investment, maintenance; having support system with lower cost. CAC- the leading provider the automatic solution, is the strongly partner of Siemens in processed industry. More than 10 years from 1995, nowadays, CAC has strong technicians, engineers with professional knowledge of automation and in many fields of industry. Some big and typical project of CAC: DCS-SIMATIC PCS7 CEMAT for cement grinding plant-Holmic This via; SCADA system for Tam Dao and Cue Long oil-rig; SCADA AND F&G for Living quarter in Bach Ho mine; NPK fertilizer factory YARA;...With commitment of quality and service a long with Siemens support, Lever Viet Nam has official signed a contract with CAC includes: providing, installing, testing, trial run electric control system.
In company with tight cooperation among Lever Viet Nam, automatic and moving parts of Siemens rep.office in Viet Nam- CAC company, the project has been carried successfully. In April of 2005, the whole production line was testing and trial run. Everybody who takes part in project feel indescribable joy when seeing the first shampoo.
The achievement prove to the lucid decision of Lever Viet Nam, the local partner development of Siemens, especially the approaching advanced technology and applying in reality of Viet Nam ‘s engineers.
Hoàng Thị Kiều Anh
Terms:
DCS – Distributed Control System:
ERP – Enterprise Resourse Planning
MES – Manufacturing Execution System
S88 - ISA-88: Standard for addressing batch process control.
To get more information, please contact:
1. Mr Duong Tich Duc – Lever Việt Nam; duong-tich.duc@unilever.com
2. Mr Do Manh Hung – CAC Company Limited; mhung@cacvn.com
3. Mrs Hoang Thi Kieu Anh – Rep. office of Siemens Vietnam; hoang-thi-kieu.anh@siemens.com
(source: Trang tin điện tử Công nghiệp Việt Nam)
translated by CAC.
