BOSS MODE BLUEPRINT
Set your company up for long-term success with a customized, laser-focused roadmap for factory automation and information systems integration.
What is a Boss Mode Blueprint?
Just as products are manufactured based on specifications, a Boss Mode Blueprint creates the foundation for everything we will build for you.
Your blueprint will help you establish your current operational status and goals. Next, we will work with you to identify how your people and processes can communicate most effectively, what the overall system architecture should look like—and how it all will take your business to the next level.
The Deep Dive Interview
We’ll start with a deep dive interview to understand your business, your process, and your team to learn:
Your individual manufacturing processes
What makes you and your business unique in the manufacturing world
Your long term goals and the short term steps we can make to help you achieve them
How you are currently using technology to run your business
Why you want to optimize, and how can we help you meet your goals
Once we understand how you operate and your goals, we’ll outline the most impactful automation and integration opportunities for your business. You’ll get a detailed breakdown of our implementation recommendations, how to best deploy the tools, technology, and training you’ll need—and our plan for accomplishing it all.
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Book a 15-minute call with Cody, the Corso Systems Head of Sales
No sales pitch, just a candid conversation.
Your Boss Mode Blueprint includes:
A complete scope of work
A system architecture, detailing you everything you need and how we will set it up for success
A detailed task list with every step of the implementation process
An exact inventory of the information we need from your team, and what Corso Systems will handle
Our Automation Best Practices Handbook, including our Boss Mode Approach to Automation to explain and help manage the tools we will be developing with you.
Transparent pricing, including any vendor discounts we have and will be passing along to you
A detailed project schedule
Project references so you can make sure we are walking the walk
Training and support guidelines for the project implementation—and beyond
More about our Boss Mode Blueprint Process:
Our deep-dive interview also uncovers or answers the following:
Learn if your business model and current processes are working for you and your goals.
Are your manufacturing and business processes helping you make what your customers need most?
Where are your opportunities to make more product? Where can you improve quality to make BETTER products?
Are you currently serving your customers, your team, and yourself to the best of your ability?
Where can you leverage technology to truly delight all of your stakeholders?
How we can help solve your biggest concerns while helping make your unique capabilities and team shine?
WE DIG DEEP — SO YOU CAN FLY HIGH
Our approach will have you thinking about your operations in new ways.
Then the Corso Systems team focuses the answers you provide through our expert lens to identify what Boss Mode looks like for your company.
We tell you exactly how your technology, information, and people can best work together to amplify your strengths so your company can soar to new heights.
You will get a detailed plan of exactly what we think will help your business most in the short term while setting you up for long-term success. Explore our Boss Mode Buildout step, next!
Intrigued?
Book a 15-minute call with Cody, the Corso Systems Head of Sales
No sales pitch, just a candid conversation.
Learn how our process worked for these companies:
Bluco wanted to increase production by operating one of its automated furnaces around the clock. The existing system required an operator to be on-site to monitor equipment, respond to alarms, and verify process conditions.
With remote access providing real-time visibility into the process, alarm notification, ammonia monitoring, Bluco achieved their goals working with Corso Systems.
Corso Systems developed a mixed model scheduling system for Whirlpool Appliances for their various appliance production lines.
Schedulers used various rules to generate a schedule of various appliance options and brands on the assembly line fed by upstream equipment.
This allowed Whirlpool to optimize production within their equipment and demand constraints using machine learning optimizations.
Corso Systems helped the owner of a number of McDonald's franchises in Southern California better understand the energy usage at his restaurants.
By integrating an Opto 22 groov RIO EMU with his equipment, including HVAC and exterior lighting, and pulling in weather data we were able to greatly reduce energy expenditures by alerting staff to turn offexterior lights and adjust thermostats.
Corso Systems worked with American Battery Technology Company to speed up their development efforts on their pilot plant SCADA system using the Ignition SCADA platform from Inductive Automation.
Corso Systems worked with Premier Furnace Specialists to automate control and data collection for a nuclear reactor heat treatment furnace.
This included complex recipe and batch management to ensure specific ramp rates for heating and cooling cycles were maintained, alarming and alarm notifications sent to operators, and a complex thermocouple management system for multiple heating zones.
Corso Systems worked alongside the customer to quickly design, deploy, and commission an affective HVAC management system with Opto 22 groov RIO hardware to ensure an air compressor room stayed cool enough to keep production running without interruption in any season.
Corso Systems worked with the leading USA-based company driving MOE steel production. We helped develop a SCADA system to control, monitor, and their operate MOE processes—from a bench-top scale proof of concept cell to a scalable production cell capable of meeting any size demand.
Corso Systems integrated an industry-leading semiconductor’s MongoDB database solution with their SCADA platform, Ignition by creating a connection to the instance and building out the scripting engine to handle the data interaction. The customer now has access to all of their data with no information silos across their production lines.
Corso Systems helped update a process to an automated CNC cell with a Fanuc robotic arm tending three CNC machines. This dramatically increased overall throughput while greatly reducing operator intervention. With data collected by Ignition, process engineers continued to increase throughput after installation.
Corso Systems integrated the controls operator interface and safety systems for a jet engine parts manufacturer’s automated furnace manipulator. By partnering with the furnace manufacturing company, Corso was able to bring up to date automation and safety features to this aerospace manufacturer’s facility—all while reducing cycle time and downtime.
Corso Systems improved Thermastor’s firmware flashing process, saving them tens of thousands in maintenance work. By replicating the functionality of their old VB.NET application and moving the process to Ignition, we were able to add additional functionality including track and trace.
With Ignition and the Sepasoft OEE and Scheduling Module, Corso Systems helped True Temper Sports greatly reduce their downtime and production slowdowns. Identifying the downtime reasons as a need for additional routine maintenance and operator training resolved the issues and led to further increases in overall productivity.
Corso Systems implemented Ignition with the Sepasoft Recipe Module to help a company prevent operator mistakes which had been causing scrapped batches and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
Corso Systems helped increase production by 14% with no additional equipment or personnel changes by implementing OEE on a Tanis Gummy Candy Machine line.
Corso Systems converted multiple Magnaflux machines running Aveva Edge / Indusoft to Ignition on OnLogic Panel PCs with touchscreens, and Allen Bradley Micrologix 800 series PLCs. During the conversion, we simplified the project with UDTs and strategic scripting improvements. The customer now has a fully integrated set of quality control test equipment.
Corso Systems integrated all of Blommer Chocolate’s manufacturing systems into a single Ignition application—thus facilitating Blommer Chocolate's digital transformation. Blommer how has a fully integrated information flow since we upgraded their process to implement modern PLCs and HMI clients across the plant. Customer service can now manage orders in real-time.
Corso Systems worked with Champion Pet Foods to implement an OEE and MES System for their Alberta Canada facility. The system included recipe management, downtime tracking, production scheduling, and OEE dashboards. In addition scrap/waste counts were updated from Champion's ERP System after QA/QC samples were taken and analyzed, providing detailed view of their OEE.
Corso Systems implemented an operations management system for AGVs at a pharmaceutical company. The system was designed to schedule AGV pick and place operations for raw materials on various production lines. This included integration with the ASRS system, a full digital twin simulation integration, and extensive testing and data validation.
Corso Systems converted an OSIPI Process Historian containing 1.8 million tags to a Canary Labs Historian. The conversion lowered the cost of ownership for the data by implementing significant reductions in storage space, bandwidth, and overall throughput.
Corso Systems created a custom native mobile app to combine with Ignition SCADA, MQTT, and Opto22 groov EPIC PLCs. This enabled mobile notifications beyond the functionality of Ignition's own mobile app. This technology stack enabled rapid prototyping and deployment to meet the customer's strict deadline.
Corso Systems and Blommer Chocolate teamed up for a third project: an entirely new production line. We were able to use all of the PLC and SCADA templates from the prior projects with Blommer to speed up development and deployment time. The project used Ignition, Siemens S7-1500 PLCs and all the previous automation upgrades.
Malco Tools needed an automated solution to increase their production capacity and automate their process. Using Corso Systems’ PLC Programming and expertise as a Premier Integrator for Inductive Automation’s Ignition SCADA platform we met their needs giving them the tools they needed to run their brazing furnaces and more than double production capacity.
AriensCo worked with Corso Systems to automate data collection and create a real-time OEE engine for analysis from the plant level all the way down to each individual work center.
The solution was built using Inductive Automation’s Ignition Platform, with Perspective providing mobile visualization of their data in real-time, and the Sepasoft OEE Module for OEE and production scheduling functionality.
Corso Systems worked with Blommer Chocolate to upgrade their production line. Instead of individual machines each with a separate legacy PLC and HMI, they now have a fully integrated Ignition SCADA system with Siemens S7-1500 PLCs.
Corso Systems worked with San Bernadino County to implement a SCADA system for their San Timeteo landfill. The SCADA system was built using Inductive Automation's Ignition platform and their Perspective Module for Mobile device access. 3D Cameras and Drones were also used to build a digital twin model of the landfill equipment accessible in the HMI.
The 10 Torr Distillery and Brewery needed an automated solution to control their process. Using Corso Systems’ PLC Programming and expertise as a Premier Integrator for Inductive Automation’s Ignition SCADA platform with the Perspective Module, we met their need and gave them the tools they needed to control a complex process from anywhere in their facility.
Corso Systems worked with cement manufacturing facility to implement a process historian and data visualization tools for its R&D plant. We completed the work on-site, working directly with the facility personnel to specify the data to be stored in the process historian.
Corso Systems implemented PLC control and an HMI for a energy bar production line with previously manually controlled equipment. Individual machine controls were replaced with an HMI screen to set the desired speed setpoint on all machines with one button press. This project was the first step towards a fully integrated SCADA solution.
Corso Systems built a web-based SCADA solution for a solar power generation company. The system included integrating PLCs and switchgear hardware using Modbus, a Red Lion Datastation Plus acting as a process historian, and an ASP.NET front-end to aggregate data from multiple solar fields into one user interface.
Corso Systems worked with a leader in solar power generation to develop a SCADA system standard built on Wonderware's Archestra platform and an OSI PI Historian. This SCADA Standard reduced deployment and commissioning time for new facilities by 85% and was deployed to over 500MW of solar power within one year.