Forest Products Industry
Capabilities
Increase Productivity and Reliability While Reducing Downtime and Maintenance Costs
To be successful in the global forest products marketplace, you must achieve higher levels of optimization. Rockwell Automation is well positioned to provide the expertise you need to achieve your goals. For more than 80 years, Rockwell Automation has been the brains and brawn behind the industry's most innovative drives technology — including the first complete AC coater drive system, AC paper machine, AC winder backstand and AC super calender. And we continue to advance technology with an impressive range of solutions based on Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture.
It is easy to take advantage of our expertise. Simply identify your, objective, and then rely on us to help you achieve it — from solutions for the woodyard through finishing and shipping. We will apply our products, solutions and support to your most pressing challenges. Together, we can engineer custom solutions for your new projects or for existing installations. And because you want the same level of quality support everywhere, we have placed our resources around the globe to serve you.
- Consulting Services — Our consulting services are focused on helping you improve your operations — whether it's increasing machine speed and productivity or improving machine tension control and product quality. Consulting services may include investigation of the present machine operation, supporting calculations and evaluation of web transport, and geometry components. We document our observations and provide concise solutions and recommendations to meet your needs.
- Application and Design Engineering — To meet your application requirements, our engineers are located worldwide to provide innovative material transport, web handling and production management solutions. Design engineers have a wide skill and experience set ranging from drive, motion and machine control to automation and HMI systems across many industries.
- Manufacturing — Whether you're looking for highly efficient, central manufacturing or flexible, "short lead time" local manufacturing, we can address your needs. Addressing shorter time to market needs, we manufacture application-matched drive packaging through multiple section line-ups in more than 25 global facilities: North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia Pacific.
- Process Control Solutions — Reduce your process solution development time and cost by harnessing the power of Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture and our proven expertise in implementing systems that meet unique requirements. Our process solutions are designed to help you respond more quickly to customer or market demands, reduce maintenance costs and downtime, and easily gain access to plant and production data from business systems for better management decision-making.
- Installation Services — Installation services range from electrical drawing packages through complete turnkey solutions. These installation services can reduce your project management load and provide a single source for coordination.
- Commissioning — To ensure a smooth startup, our engineers will work closely with you to prepare a project plan, hold a pre-installation meeting, verify the installation, set-up the hardware, integrate the system and provide production coverage. Our experienced engineers will help ensure that projects start up on time and on budget.
- Project Management — Our project management process is designed to deliver a solution that helps with meeting your schedule requirements, provides the functionality you expect and helps to minimizes outage time.
- Integrated Architecture — Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture — the only integrated control and information system that runs discrete, motion, process, batch, drive systems and safety applications — enables peak performance. And extends your performance gains with open, real-time information exchange across your enterprise. With the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture, you can use a single, coordinated infrastructure for the entire range of control and information disciplines. So you can optimize production, respond more quickly to customer or market demands — and reduce costs.
- Services & Support
- Service assessments — Baseline evaluations of plant floor technical skills, procedures & equipment
- Condition monitoring — Predictive maintenance products & services for rotating equipment
- Asset management services — MRO process and spare parts management
- Remote monitoring services — System monitoring/diagnostics by offsite automation specialists
- Network services — Design, validation, evolution and maintenance of control networks
- Training services — Instructor-led training, self-paced training and competency testing
- Onsite support services — Troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance of automation and related equipment
- Repair services — Remanufacturing, repair, and exchange services and renewal parts
- Phone support services — Real-time, direct access to automation specialists