Real projects, in production.

Robotic cocktail island

Challenge

Turn a hospitality counter into a scenic, scalable experience: cocktails prepared live with robotic choreography, recipes managed centrally, orders accepted from a customer app or in-room kiosk. Floor staff should never have to become robot programmers.

What we did

Siemens S7-1200 PLC for motion control, MQTT to cloud for order intake. The robotic arms are programmed with combinable primitives (grab, pour, shake, garnish): each new cocktail is composed in the CMS as a sequence of primitives, with no firmware changes on the robot.

Result

Showpiece cocktail served end-to-end in under 90 seconds. Catalogue extended from 12 initial recipes to 30+ within four months with zero firmware updates. Layout replicable to new locations as a configuration copy.

• Siemens S7-1200
• MQTT cloud orders
• Choreographed robotic arms

Multi-product line

Challenge

Automotive OEM with a single assembly line shared across multiple product variants. Manual changeover took 45 to 90 minutes per model — heavy production loss on daily mixes. Legacy SCADA with no structured recipe management: every new model required PLC intervention and recompiling.

What we did

Standard software architecture on top of a Siemens S7-1515T PLC, fully configurable from SCADA. Model changeover via recipe selection, parameters imported/exported over OPC UA from the ERP. Four V90/S120 servo drives on the critical axes for precision and repeatability.

Result

Format changeover from 45+ minutes down to under 8. Adding a new product variant became a master-data task in the ERP, not an automation project: zero PLC code written for new models after go-live.

• PLC S7-1515T
• 4× V90/S120
• Recipes via SCADA
• OPC UA import/export

Automated stator production line

Challenge

E-Mobility customer scaling to serial production of electric-motor stators. Complex kinematics (winding on 42 synchronous axes, insulation via virtual-camming axes, vision-based palletising), 15+ independent stations that had to behave as a single line at the takt rate the market demanded. No monolithic vendor covered the full scope.

What we did

Distributed architecture: each station with its own PLC (S7-1516TF on the critical ones), ARIA as line orchestrator and MES. 42 Sinamics S210 servo drives in virtual camming on the winding station. Machine vision integrated on the palletising cell. Shared web HMI, per-station diagnostics, per-stator traceability inside the ARIA ecosystem.

Result

Required production takt reached within the industrial-plan timeline. Mean time to identify the faulty component dropped from hours to minutes thanks to the unified ARIA dashboard. Line configuration replicated on two twin plants without rewriting PLC code.

• 15+ distributed stations
• PLC S7-1516TF + machine vision
• 42× S210 servos in virtual camming
• Web-based HMI
• Centralized coordination on ARIA