The one who hears the problem
Before a system is proposed we spend time on the floor, with the people actually working the shift. The specification comes from there, not from a meeting.
Company
Since 2002, between the machines and the people who run them.
Hardening S.r.l. has worked in industrial automation since 2002. We build the layer that sits between the plant on the floor and the systems that administer it.
The common thread
An overhead crane, a cutting line, a solar plant: the shape is always this one.
Below are the machines’ PLCs; above, the ERP or the MES. What is almost always missing in between is something that speaks both languages and takes responsibility for what passes through. That is what we have been building for over twenty years, changing only the machine at the far end.
- 1 Translates, both ways
- 2 Checks coherence
- 3 Logs every transit
- 4 Orders the queues
Against delegating the same functions to a PLC, this approach wins on computing power, freedom of programming, and the ability to integrate different devices. It also reduces — often removes — the development needed on the machine side and on the management side.
What we have built
Systems in service, not prototypes.
Each of these is a product running in real plants.
- Crane automation
Gradus
Guided or unmanned movement for overhead cranes in steel: coil search, force analysis across the stack, operator traceability. On new or existing cranes.
Read more - Plants and parks
Photovoltaic monitoring
Plant performance, performance ratio, field measurements to locate faults. We also operate and maintain several photovoltaic parks ourselves.
Read more - Sheet-metal service centres
ProPulse
Digital productivity control for sheet-metal service centres: the state, speed and output of every cut-to-length line and slitter, in real time, on a three-colour logic.
- ERP and PLC integration
Industria 4.0 bridges
Standalone bridging systems between the customer’s ERP or MES and the machine PLCs, with a user interface and, where needed, barcode readers or cameras.
- Artificial intelligence
Haria
Reads and answers questions on company documents, and reads sensors and cameras to produce information useful for operator safety and for logistics.
- Energy monitoring
Henergy
Meters and power analysers on every line, recorded to a server with reports and alarms. Extendable to water and gas, and also used to read machine productivity.
How we work
Two people are needed, and usually you get one.
The trouble with consultants is that they tell you sound things you already knew. The trouble with engineers is that they build perfectly, but only if someone walks them step by step through what is actually needed. We keep both, trained on the same problem.
The one who builds it
Design and development stay in-house: whoever heard the problem sits in the same room as whoever writes the code.
Technical consultancy
When what is needed is a signature, not software.
Alongside the systems, we put the same technical competence at the disposal of anyone who has to prove something — to the tax authority or in a dispute.
Industria 4.0 appraisals and certification
Verification and attestation of conformity in the form of a sworn appraisal: it states that the asset meets the requirements of Italian Law 232 of 11 December 2016 and therefore qualifies for the tax benefits attached to it.
Party-appointed technical expert
We work alongside a company’s legal department in disputes with suppliers or public bodies, on the ground we know: how the plant actually behaves.
Hardening S.r.l. — Piazza Carlo Leoni 1, 35030 Caselle di Selvazzano (PD) · VAT IT 03698910282
Tell us what plant you run — we will know quickly whether we can be useful.
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