The fourth industrial revolution is steering manufacturing towards full automation. Producers seek robust process monitoring and control solutions. They hold the key to any attempt to achieve the necessary level of critical industrial process automation. The bonuses of successful automation include higher production rates, lower waste of materials & energy, lower operating costs, and increased overall efficiency. Reliable monitoring and control solutions are far from readily available. Intense development efforts are underway in industry and academia across the globe. It is intensely hot around the topics related to the development and industrial application of (1) embedded sensors & actuators, (2) cyber-physical monitoring and control systems and (3) holistic process control methods and systems. Combining the right solutions paves the way toward enabling the autonomous operation of plants. Nova Fabrica provides enabling solutions for vacuum and plasma-based process characterisation, monitoring, control and automation. Nova Fabrica develop, manufacture and provide critical subsystems, components, metrology services and personnel training to OEM vacuum coating and plasma processing system manufacturers and end-users alike. Nova Fabrica product portfolio includes unique in-house developed subsystems, components, and process technology. Nova Fabrica products include plasma emission monitoring systems, reactive gas control systems, residual and process gas analysis systems, deposition rate measurement systems, optical and sheet resistance measurement systems, Fieldbus master, plant-wide supervisory process control systems, optical monitoring assemblies, and fibre-optic components. Nova Fabrica services include on-site technical support; process development, optimisation, and automation; process technology transfer and implementation; in-house lab services; in-house and on-site training courses.
