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Food industry innovation award
06 January 2017
WAGO has won an award for its innovative modular automation system for the food and beverage industry at the Food Processing Awards 2016. The system, called DIMA, was named as the winner in the Robotics & Automation category.

DIMA was developed in response to a call from NAMUR, the User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries, for a new methodology for automating modular processing systems. The food processing industry is being increasingly required to react quickly to changing market conditions, and produce smaller product runs more quickly, efficiently and economically.
Receiving the award, Derek Lane, Automation Manager at WAGO, said: "We’re very pleased to have been recognised with this award. Until now, there was no complete non-proprietary solution on the market for automated integration of individual modules into a complete application. As a result the automation system of a modular application would have to be laboriously programmed by hand, taking up valuable time and increasing the risk of errors. With DIMA, WAGO has proved for the first time how easily modular systems can be automated on a modular basis without extensive effort."
DIMA allows manufacturers to quickly and flexibly adapt their production processes, and by eliminating the need to carefully plan and programme the automation system manually, engineering time can be significantly shortened, leading to greater productivity, efficiency and profitability.
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