Luvata Pori - integrated copper production with Rockwell Automation

Luvata Pori Oy's production facilities are located in Pori, Western Finland, making it one of the largest employers in the region with its 350 employees. Luvata Pori manufactures a wide range of copper products for various industrial needs. The factory's total production is over 40,000 tons of copper products per year, with over 90% of the products being exported. 

Luvata's production lines and machines are highly automated. The goal was to combine separate automation solutions into one system to improve production manageability and usability. The aim was to facilitate connectivity, data collection, reporting, maintenance, and staff expertise with a single standard automation solution across different lines and machines. 

Rockwell's Integrated Architecture automation product family was selected as the new comprehensive automation solution for Luvata Pori factory. It combines line automations based on CompactLogix and ControlLogix logic with other Rockwell automation products into one system. The same system can also incorporate Rockwell's PowerFlex frequency converters and various Rockwell operator interfaces and reporting solutions.

The control and reporting of each machine and line were optimized by specifying and installing suitable automation solutions for each application, after which the different applications were combined into one Integrated Automation concept. Using Rockwell's Integrated Automation design tool library, the project was completed in less than 6 months, with the actual commissioning taking place over a single weekend.

Customer benefits:

- Flexible automation solution tailored to the needs of each individual component using the same tool library for configuring and designing all automation devices.

- Easy scalability, making it easy to expand the application as needs change.

- Ethernet/IP-based easily manageable network architecture enabling the transmission of control and production data as well as I/O data and motion control in the same network.

- The same real-time data is available for both machine and entire production control.

- Control and production data are equally accessible for real-time control as well as long-term data-based production reporting.