WHO WE ARE?
ANT Solutions is a specialised software development company with over 18 years of expertise in delivering customised IT solutions to factories. Our mission is to enhance the productivity and efficiency of manufacturing processes through innovative technology. With a rich history of serving the industry, we have established ourselves as leaders in developing solutions that meet the unique needs of each factory.
In 2023, ANT Solutions embarked on a new chapter by joining forces with Dürr Group and ITAC Software, expanding our capabilities and reach in the manufacturing technology sphere. This partnership signifies our commitment to providing state-of-the-art solutions and marks a milestone in our journey towards revolutionising manufacturing through digital transformation.
ANT In Numbers
We are part of Dürr Group
142
locations in 32 countries
20k+
employees
€4.3 mld
revenue in 2023
Our Company Structure
Szymon
Piróg
CEO
Maciej
Śladowski
CFO
Bartłomiej
Bieniek
Head of Delivery
Maria
Walas
HR Manager
Sebastian
Kasza
Marketing Manager
Tomasz
Twardowski
Business Development Manager
Michał
Chmiel
Business Development Manager
Sebastian
Perz
Business Development Manager
Piotr
Kańka
Business Development Manager
Marcin
Marczewski
New Business Manager
Gabriela
Gruszczyńska
New Business Manager
Patrycja
Miklińska
Key Account Manager
They talk about us
Manufacturing in the region for the region, next to our customers is a pillar of our operations strategy.
We invested massively in our factories over the last years to increase capacity; completing these investments with the best digitalization solution of all manufacturing systems is a key part of our program toward more efficiency and agility. In a great collaboration with ANT, we are rolling out our plans.
Fabrice Revert, COO
LinkedIn
System Architecture We choose
At the heart of our platform lies a microservices architecture, meticulously designed to ensure fault tolerance and scalability. By decomposing our system into independent, loosely coupled services, we achieve horizontal scalability, allowing us to efficiently handle increasing loads and maintain high availability. This architecture also facilitates asynchronous communication between services, enhancing resilience and enabling seamless recovery from failures without impacting the entire system.
To maintain a robust and transparent operational environment, we prioritize observability through comprehensive monitoring of metrics, logs, and traces. This approach provides deep insights into system performance and behavior, enabling proactive issue detection and swift resolution. Our commitment to observability ensures that we can consistently deliver a reliable and high-performing experience to our users.
Embracing a cloud-native strategy, our infrastructure is designed to leverage the full potential of modern cloud platforms. We operate in a multi-cloud environment, which not only prevents vendor lock-in but also offers flexibility and resilience by distributing our services across multiple cloud providers. Our deployment processes are fully automated using Terraform for both Azure and AWS, adhering to the Infrastructure-as-Code paradigm. This automation ensures consistency, repeatability, and rapid scalability across our multi-tenant architecture.
Our choice of architecture is driven by the need for a robust, scalable, and flexible production system that can adapt to evolving demands while maintaining high standards of performance and reliability. The microservices approach, combined with cloud-native principles and comprehensive observability, provides a solid foundation for sustainable growth and innovation.
Technologies We Use
Our technology stack is carefully selected to support a scalable, secure, and high-performance platform, enabling us to deliver exceptional experiences to our users while continuously evolving to meet future challenges.
To build and maintain our cutting-edge platform, we leverage a diverse set of modern technologies:
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Frontend & Backend Development: We utilize TypeScript and React for creating dynamic and responsive user interfaces, while our backend is powered by Node.js and Java SpringBoot 3, ensuring robust and scalable server-side applications.
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Data Management: Our system incorporates a timeseries database with Historian capabilities, enabling efficient storage and analysis of time-dependent data. Additionally, we utilize a data warehouse integrated with AI technologies to drive intelligent insights and decision-making.
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Containerization & Orchestration: We deploy our services using Docker containers managed by Kubernetes, ensuring seamless scaling and orchestration across our infrastructure.
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DevOps & Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Our development workflow is streamlined with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps practices, promoting rapid and reliable software delivery.
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Security & Authentication: We implement SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) to provide secure and streamlined authentication for our users.
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Infrastructure Management: Embracing Infrastructure-as-Code, we use Terraform to automate and manage our cloud resources across Azure and AWS, ensuring consistency and efficiency in our deployments.
React
NodeJS
Docker
GitHub
DevOps
AWS
SSO
SpringBoot3
How we work
- End-To-End project with complete range of services for the implementation of project:
- On-site analysis
- Machines connectivity
- ERP integration
- Hardware delivery
- System implementation
- Trainings
- System handover & SLA
Our Products
Machine connectivity
We will connect all your machines!
- We focus on machine data collection
- Communication with new and old machines
- Counter and process parameters read from PLC, HMI, electrical cabinets
- Dedicated solutions: sensors, acquisition boxes, cameras
- Modern IoT architecture with data offline buffering
Dedicated Team
We know you, you know us!
- Team of 10 engineers dedicated to the project
- Direct contact
- The same team for roll-outs
- Professional project management
- Best software implementation practices
Our Insights
Biscuits Factory
- Find out what problems biccuits factory was facing before implementation OEE factory software.
- What was ANT Solutions approach to deal with uncovered factory issues.
- How ANT Solutions implemented the key software components including hardware and cabling.
- The final outcome resulted in key KPIs increase.
Assembly Factory
- Company implemented an MES system to improve manufacturing efficiency.
- The MES system enabled real-time production monitoring, quality inspections, and defect handling.
- The MES system helped factory to increase efficiency, reduce defective products, and improve data accuracy.
- Find out how ANT Solutions MES implementation, helped manufacturer increasing it’s KPIs.
Tobacco Plant
- This case study describes the customer case study of a successful micro stops implementation in a tobacco factory.
- The factory system enabled automated data gathering and key algorithmics.
- The system was implemented to address the challenges of high-speed production, micro stops, SKU and changeover times, and a diverse machine park.
- Find out how ANT Solutions enabled communication with over 100 machine types, algorithmics creation, and roll-out to 30 factories.