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ASAŞ Information Technologies Manager Coşar MERT explained the contribution of Artech Industrial Computer Solutions to the Industry 4.0 integration process of ASAŞ Factory.

"The most important factors in choosing to work with Çizgi Teknoloji and Artech Industrial Computer solutions are that it is a domestic company, after-sales support, and openness to customer requests in a customizable structure."

Established in Gebze in 1990, ASAŞ; Akyazı is among Turkey's most important industrial establishments. Its five production facilities are equipped with the latest technology in the Sakarya region, 2750 employees, and exports to more than 90 countries. ASAŞ, which has been in the 63rd place in the ISO 500 in Turkey in 2020 with its stable growth trend since its establishment, and is also one of the leading manufacturers in Europe; With its innovative products, technology, the first approved R&D Center in the industry and the services it provides, it creates solutions and adds value to every sector it operates. ASAŞ; serves its customers in the production facilities of Aluminum Profile, Composite Panel, Aluminum Flat Products, PVC Profile, and Shutters, established on a total area of ​​923,000 m², 300,000 m² of which is closed, in Akyazı and Karapürçek campuses. In 2018, ASAŞ purchased an 880,028 m2 land with a 72,793 m2 secure area belonging to Thyssen Krupp Rasselstein in the city of Neuwied, adjacent to Koblenz, one hour away from Frankfurt and Cologne airports, which is a strategic location in the European distribution network and incorporated it into the company. ASAŞ, which will also benefit from the logistics opportunities of the region, can provide direct services to Central and Western European countries in the area, which also has port and railway transportation facilities.

Thanks to DigitALL, ASAŞ aims to create and record a digital trace of every data, every e-mail sent every activity done to increase its efficiency with the help of systems that will generate information and value from this data. And to add value to the sector and the country's economy by further improving the service it offers to its business partners.

Beginning of the Project with Çizgi Teknoloji

The process started with the industrial transformation of the equipment in the automation systems used in the ASAŞ Factory, continued with the DigitALL project with the needs of digitalization and Industry 4.0 transformation. This situation developed as a result of supplier research and evaluation of specific criteria.

By prioritizing issues such as Price - Performance - After Sales Support, product trials were conducted with almost all known suppliers in the industry for solutions. Since they are living processes, criteria such as openness to improvement, ease of problem-solving, and cost were prioritized in evaluating products and suppliers to be selected.

The most critical factors in working with Çizgi Teknoloji and Artech Industrial Computer solutions are a local company, fast after-sales support, and openness to customer requests in a customizable structure.

"We have been using Artech Industrial Panel PC and Andon Display solutions for about ten years."

First of all, we used Artech Panel PC instead of a panel PC of foreign origin in our production line. Since the previous product was of foreign origin, solution times were very long and costly in case of failure.

"The model, which developed in line with our wishes, has been fully adapted to the system we have established. As a result, we added value to our business with Price Performance and minimum failure rates."

With the Çizgi Teknoloji team, improvements were made on the existing Artech products, according to our requirements, in line with our wishes. In addition, a new product specific to our DigitALL project has emerged. Within the scope of DigitALL, the Artech Industrial Computer solution specially developed for the ASAŞ factory, we provide production confirmations as MES screens and publish our Artech Andon screens and dashboards.

The outcome of the Project

"Artech Industrial Computer Solutions contributed to the Industry 4.0 integration process of our factory."

The Çizgi Teknoloji team's openness to our requests for our project goals and innovation in the current product ensured that our project process was mutually efficient. We reached a solution quickly by stating our expectations to Çizgi Teknoloji on every issue that came to our mind during the project. Thanks to the solution-oriented and empathetic support of the relevant sales managers during the project, an excellent product came out, and its evaluation adds added value to the system we have established.

The project we carried out with Çizgi Teknoloji was completed, including the installations in the production area, apart from the equipment purchase. Furthermore, with the involvement of the Çizgi Teknoloji After-Sales Services team in the project from the beginning and their ownership of this project, our costs and solution times for the necessary after-sales support have decreased.

"Çizgi Teknoloji; Being a local company, product customizability, price-performance ratio and after-sales support, it is a supplier that we are pleased to cooperate with."

With the creation of a product compatible with our project goals and expectations and which can be easily integrated, Çizgi Teknoloji met our project requirements.