Eren Baş
Sales Engineer
Meko A.Ş.
Process automation is transforming industries by enhancing efficiency, quality, and sustainability. This technology enables businesses to optimize production processes, reduce costs, and adapt to the digital era, ensuring long-term growth and competitiveness.
The world is rapidly becoming digital, and at the center of this transformation is the process of automation, which makes industrial production processes more efficient, sustainable, and secure. This technology offers solutions that standardize quality in industries while reducing costs and increasing operational efficiency. In today’s competitive business world, process automation has become not only a technological innovation, but also a strategic tool for sustainable growth.
Sectoral expertise and innovative approaches play a major role in making process automation such an important technology. As MEKO A.Ş., with our 41 years of experience, we provide services to 17 different sectors, including flour, feed, pasta, defense industry, and livestock automation. With the experience we have gained during this period, we help businesses manage their production processes more effectively and progress safely on their digital transformation journeys. As the sales team, our goal is not only to sell process automation systems for our customers, but also to always be by their side and offer solutions specific to their needs.
WHAT IS PROCESS AUTOMATION AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
Process automation is a set of technologies that monitor the stages of a production process with sensors, control systems and software, optimizing these processes without the need for human intervention. By continuously monitoring critical parameters in the production process, product quality is maintained, energy consumption is optimized, and waste is minimized.
Especially in the flour and feed sectors, mixing raw materials with different nutritional values and different qualities in the most appropriate proportions using process automation helps to obtain the desired quality final product at the most affordable cost. Similarly, in areas requiring high precision such as the defense industry, this technology offers reliable results by minimizing error tolerance. In addition, smart ventilation, feeding and health checks in livestock automation increase animal welfare and make production processes more efficient.
MEKO A.Ş.’S CONTRIBUTION AND ROLE IN THE SECTOR
MEKO A.Ş. has proven its expertise in both local and international projects as one of the leading implementers of process automation in Turkey. Our company not only offers technological solutions but also guides businesses in their digital transformation processes. For example, with the systems we offer to increase efficiency and reduce energy costs in feed production, we both provide businesses with a competitive advantage and contribute to environmental sustainability.
In my own career, as a sales engineer, I focus on understanding customer needs and providing them with the most suitable automation solutions. I had the opportunity to introduce process automation solutions to new sectors by communicating with customers in markets that had not been entered before. During this process, seeing the difference technology makes in businesses and contributing to it was a very motivating experience.
INDUSTRY 4.0 AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE
With Industry 4.0, process automation has become one of the most important components of digitalization. Systems powered by technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT) not only control processes but also offer predictions about the future with predictive analyses. For example, thanks to IoT-based sensors and big data analytics, potential failures of equipment in a factory can be detected in advance. Thus, production can be optimized without interruption.
As MEKO A.Ş., we are also a part of this technological transformation. With the solutions we offer to our customers, we aim to facilitate their adaptation to the Industry 4.0 process. In this process, the customization of automation technology for each sector ensures both the sustainability of business processes and long-term profitability.
A STRONG FUTURE WITH PROCESS AUTOMATION
Process automation stands out as a technology that supports not only the current needs of businesses but also their future growth goals. The solutions it offers in terms of efficiency, quality and sustainability place this technology at the center of future industrial revolutions.
In a country like Turkey, which has a strong potential in the fields of agriculture and industry, the widespread use of process automation will directly contribute to economic development and increased global competitiveness. At this point, experienced companies such as MEKO A.Ş. and expert professionals in the field will continue to be the pioneers of the transformation in the sector. Process automation will continue to be a critical technology that is ready to shape the future of industries on both a local and global scale.
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