1. The automation of
Engineering @ CSi
October 15, 2015
Robert van Domburg
Director Smart Palletising

2. Introduction to CSi
1964founded
€60 millionturnover 2014
3production facilities
11Sales/service locations
500employees

3. Introduction to our business
What our customers say:
“Excellent partnership & relations during the
whole project. The implementation on site was
well supervised for a perfect start-up. Well
done!”
“Very reliable and professional system that
performs exceptionally well.”
“We selected the CSi i-Pal platform to be our
standard to be implemented globally across all
business units.”
Fast Moving Consumer
Goods
food & other
caresnacks & confectionery
tobacco
dairy & juices

4. How we serve our customer
Customer
Sales
CSi Palletising
Systems
CSi Smart
Palletising
CSi Lifecycle
Service
PAC (Palletizer application Centre)
Cluj-Romania, Foshan-China, …
Technology & Development

5. Our Palletising Products
i-Pal®Smart-Pal® Taros C5000
 Capacity: up to 12 picks
per minute ( multiple
boxes per pick possible)
 Footprint: 12-14 M2
 System availability: 99,5%
 Delivered: >250 systems
since 2005
 Capacity: up to 8 picks per
minute (multiple boxes per
pick possible)
 Footprint: 8-10 M2
 System availability: >98%
 Delivered : 3 since 2014
 Capacity: up to 110 boxes
per Minute
 Footprint: 9-10 M2
 System availability: 99,5%
 Delivered : ~70 systems
since 2000
Specifications
 Capacity: up to 60 boxes per
Minute
 Footprint: 5-6 M2
 System availability: >99,5%
 Delivered : >160 systems
since 2005
Specifications Specifications Specifications

6. Our Projects
ProjectGoods Handling Pallet Handling
Solution
Intelliware
100
150
200
250
300
350
Sales Service
PM
System
Integration
Component
Integration
Standard
Product
Customer
Requirements
System Test
(SAT)
InstallationSupply Chain
Order
Contract
Detailed
Design Phase
Definition
Phase
Engineering hours / project

7. Goals & ambitions
Goals
• Raise the quality level for software &
hardware significantly
• Mechatronic management environment
of products
• One multi-disciplinary way of working
• Generate 80% of the products
• Reduce the amount of engineering hours (HW 20%, SW 30%)
Ambitions
• Zero hours engineering for a standard project
• Focus on specials
100
150
200
250
300
350
Engineering hours / project

8. Approach
Proof Of Concept
• Hardware only
• Small project (our demo Centre)
• 8 weeks
• Seeing is believing

9. Implementation
Plan
• Hardware + software
• Platform independent
• Modularization of each product
• For pallet & carton handling equipment
• 1 year lead-time

10. Implementation
(SCRUM) Team
• 1 product engineer (Product owner)
• 1 product specialist Yellax (two months) (Scrum Master)
• 1 hardware engineer (Development team)
• 2 software engineers (Development team)

11. New workflow
Sales Service
PM
System
Integration
Component
Integration
Standard
Product
Customer
Requirements
System Test
(SAT)
InstallationSupply Chain
Order
Contract
Detailed
Design Phase
Definition
Phase
Mechanical
Engineer
Hardware
Engineer
Software
Engineer
System
Engineer
UnitNumber
UnitType
BusType
Functionality
MotorType
MotorPower
MotorCurrent
TheoreticalPower
FrequencyHighSpeed
FrequencyLowSpeed
Ramp
ConveyorSpeed
ConveyorLength
ClockwiseIsReverse
MaterialAmount
Cabinet
NodeAddress
Network
24VDCGroup
Motorgroup
CableLength
NumberConnectedUnitA
NumberConnectedUnitB
NumberConnectedUnitC
NumberConnectedUnitD
SideConnectedUnitA
SideConnectedUnitB
SideConnectedUnitC
SideConnectedUnitD

12. Status & next steps
• Implementation of nine PHCH products in TM
– Siemens 100%
– Rockwell 70%
– Hardware 100%
• Testing
– Siemens 30%
– Rockwell 0%
– Hardware 100%
• And now!
– First project (hardware)
– From 1st of November multidiscipline projects