Baggage Handling Systems at Airports

Veghel – Vanderlande Industries introduces MMS, a unique Mobile Maintenance Solution integrating both SCADA and maintenance management, on stand no. 320 at inter airport China from 26-28 September in Beijing, P.R. China. The MMS has been designed in partnership with the company SCHAD.

Vanderlande Industries introduces the Vanderlande Industries Mobile Maintenance Solution (MMS) which integrates SCADA with enterprise asset management solutions such as IBM Maximo.

Vanderlande Industries will use the software to improve the operational performance of their site based teams to increase the value and quality of service to their customers. Vanderlande’s customers will benefit because of the higher efficiency, lower costs and improved management reporting of the site-based teams.

These site based teams will have the ability to monitor system performance from any location using any mobile device over Wi-Fi or GPRS. What makes this solution unique is, that it additionally offers maintenance engineers full mobile working capabilities by giving users a seamless integration between their existing SCADA system and IBM’s MAXIMO maintenance (enterprise asset management) system. This further demonstrates Vanderlande’s commitment to innovations that bring customers’ system availability up and costs down.

The solution is available now to new and existing Vanderlande customers who have implemented a full service solution and use a permanently site-based Vanderlande support team. Currently, the company has more than 60 site-based teams. The Vanderlande team at London Heathrow Terminal 5 is the 1st team that is already using this new mobile solution. The aim is to deploy it also at a number of other sites in 2012.

“Vanderlande Industries is the first automation specialist that currently has a mobility offering like this and we are delighted to be offering integrated mobile SCADA and maintenance as an enhancement to our full service solutions. Mobility clearly differentiates us as a supplier and adds a lot of extra value to the overall benefits of using automation,” says Tjarko Bouman, Director Customer Services from Vanderlande Industries.

Profile of Vanderlande Industries
Vanderlande Industries provides automated material handling systems and services. The company is active in the markets for Baggage Handling at airports, Warehouse Automation and sorting solutions in Parcel & Postal facilities. The company implements material handling systems of all sizes, ranging from local sorting depots, airports and distribution centres to the world’s largest facilities. Vanderlande has sales of EUR 565 million and employs 2 347 people of whom more than 55% have a college or university degree.

Its systems and services focus on improving customers’ business processes and increasing their logistics performance today, tomorrow and throughout the entire life cycle. The company strives for close cooperation with the customer, extending from initial analysis of the underlying business processes through to total life-cycle support.

To achieve this, the company has a wide product range and industry knowledge, and possesses capabilities in the relevant disciplines. These range from system design and engineering, through supply chain management and manufacturing, to logistics software technology, system integration, project management and customer services.

Vanderlande Industries is a global player with extensive experience in many industries and references in all regions of the world. It operates locally through Customer Centres that handle all key business functions and maintain direct contacts with customers.

For more information:
Jacqueline Peijnenburg
Vanderlande Industries
Marketing Communications Customer Services
Tel. +31 (0)413 49 55 71
E-mail: jacqueline.peijnenburg@vanderlande.com
Internet            www.vanderlande.com