With the increasing of today's competitiveness, companies need to increase their production and quality reducing their costs. In nowadays a determining factor for a company profitability is the automation of their production systems. The use of programmable controllers, dedicated process controllers associated to data acquisition softwares, allow control and management of the entire production processes.

This area of business represents Selmatron’s core business, and is the one that has more expression in its turnover, where we have numerous references of applications, both in industry in general or in the public and private sector. Selmatron is an automation system integrator of Allen Bradley, Beckhoff, National Instruments, Omron, Schneider Electric and Siemens, having recognized technical capacity and expertise to propose, design and implement with the highest quality integrated automation systems, for all areas where process automation provides added value in financial terms, of productivity and quality.

In nowadays the transferring of information from a production line to the management office is increasingly essential. Information on production status, machine efficiency, working and stop times, production quantities, are fundamental for the proper production management. The interconnection of several production islands is possible through field networks like DH +, CAN, DeviceNet, Modbus, Profibus among others. All data is collected and presented by a supervisory and control software, allowing the line manager an assertive and early intervention to improve production and avoid problems.

The use of SCADA software for monitoring and data collection of production processes is widely used in many industries. The collection of signals of different types and brands of PLCs is greatly simplified with the use of SCADA softwares, having high potential in terms of graphics, alarms, statistics, recipe elaboration, etc... SCADA softwares allow the user to have on his PC monitor the operation and performance of all or part of the production plant. Note also the concern to offer the user a user friendly interface of simple and intuitive use.