In late November, at the Sps Ipc Drives 2014 trade fair in Nuremberg, the trade medium ‘elektrotechnik’ chose, for the third time, the best corporate apps in the field of automation.
For the first time, the ‘automation app award’ was presented in four categories: corporate, catalogue, engineering and production.
In the ‘production’ category, the Mobile Line Assistant app from Krones AG, Neutraubling, Germany, came out as the winner. The new app provides line personnel with an expert system that enables the operator to receive malfunction messages as a tailored selection precisely matched to the user’s actual needs. The app also gives users proactively relevant contents for solving the flagged problems.
Rated against the criteria of benefits, usability, and the originality of the idea, the apps were judged by a five-strong jury, an online vote at elektrotechnik.de and user ratings in the app store.
The Mobile Line Assistant app from Krones supports the line’s personnel in performing their daily remits at bottling or canning plants. Featuring a clear structure, the app presents information in an easy-read overview and helps operators identify problems swiftly, even in stressful situations.
Krones’ new app will in future be a constituent of Krones’ SitePilot IT umbrella brand, and will comprise a part of the firm’s range of modularised software, covering all the tasks involved from production to logistics, and enabling all the processes concerned to be planned, visualised, documented and controlled.
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