Digital transformation presents concrete challenges in a dynamic way. Continually mastering them, time and again, requires a workforce with a high degree of expertise and know-how. The plastics processor framas therefore not only regards training and ongoing education as essential, they usually begin directly on recruitment. It is now three years since the SME re-prioritized the issue of qualification as a strategically important competitive factor and began to promote it.

Advanced training is continually required and fostered – whether for new recruits or seasoned employees

At framas, Advanced Training of All Employees Is a Cornerstone of the Company’s Strategy

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Soft Skills

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Digitale Transformation

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Weiterbildung, allgemeine

Dienstleistungen

Seminare, Schulungen, Kongresse

Fertigungsautomation

Continuously Investing in  Expertise and Skills

ABB has appointed Joerg Theis as President of ABB’s Machine Automation Division (B&R), effective April 1, 2021. He succeeds Clemens Sager, who managed the division ad interim since January 1, 2021.

Joerg Theis has been appointed as President of ABB’s Machine Automation Division (B&R), effective April 1, 2021.

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Prozessautomation

ABB Appoints Joerg Theis President of B&R

Back in early February, French robotics manufacturer Sepro named Charles de Forges as the group‘s new managing director.

Personen

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Industrieroboter

Montagetechnik

Roboter

Maschinenbau

Sepro Group Named New CEO

The latest trend in digitization  is the Artificial Intelligence of Things. It amounts to “marrying” Artificial Intelligence with the Internet of Things. In the following interview, Martin Dimmler and Martin Rugfelt discuss how companies can profit from AIoT and what plastics manufacturers can learn from its pioneers in other industries.

Where Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is used, value-adding opportunities for more efficiency, quality, and thus higher sales can be realized in every industry

Artificial Intelligence of Things: Trends and Models for the Plastics Industry

Künstliche Intelligenz für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

Vernetzung / Cloudlösung für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

IoT-Plattformen für die Qualitätssicherung

Fernwartung / Ferndiagnose

Instandhaltung

Produkt- / anbieterspezifische Automatisierung

Energieeffizienz

Datenanalyse

IoT-Plattformen für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

“Intelligent Automation Brings Systems Closer to their Optimum”

The Italian Piovan Group acquires the American Ipeg with a turnover of almost half a billion euro, in the field of industrial automation for the processing of virgin and recycled polymers and bioresins. Closing is expected within the first quarter of 2022.

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Piovan Acquires Ipeg

Kuka is demonstrating this – not only at K 2022 – but also in a current customer project with Hauff.

According to the manufacturer, the stand-out quality of the KR Quantec is not only optimal production efficiency, but also its economical commissioning and maintenance concept.

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

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Top Rack Rollers for Dishwashers in Seconds

Beck Automation presents Beck Bailer – its new metal ironing machine in Düsseldorf.

Beck Bailer for fully automatic assembly of metal hangers on plastic buckets.

All-Automatic Bucket Support Bracket Assembly

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag intends to go full speed ahead with its decision to develop automation solutions in house – including the SAM manufacturing concept.

To date, the focus of the SAM-C series has been on standard applications with manageable complexity. The new robot is set to change all that. 

SAM Robot for Complex Requirements

How, and why, plastics processors should invest in flexible automation solutions.

Maximize the Benefits of Automation

The K 2022 event will see Wittmann Technology showcase all things new in the fields of automation and peripherals.

The Sonic robots are ideal for short injection molding cycles with mold-open times of 1 s or less.

Handhabungsroboter

Robot for Shorter Cycles and Faster Movement

With Hekutip QC, a quality control assistant for pipette tips, Hekuma and Ziemann & Urban have developed a standalone solution that covers wide-ranging testing requirements fully automatically, as well as being compact and swift to deploy.

Hekutip QC covers wide-ranging testing requirements fully automatically, as well as being compact and swift to deploy.

Medizintechnik (KU)

Kunststoffverarbeitung

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

A Standalone Measuring Station with a Wide Testing Range

ifw Manfred Otte: Smaller production batches are becoming more and more important in fitting production.

The new development automates the task of inserting seals into fittings and takes over the leak test.

Fittings even for Small Batches

Under the new name and the umbrella of the Indian Vasatha Group, the former KTW-Werkzeugbau is thriving in Waidhofen, Germany.

In the VTW pilot plant, the molds have been sampled to date. In future, it will also receive customer systems for start-up series.

Like a Phoenix from the Ashes

Adaptable Production Capacities as a Service

Kuka Systems and FlexFactory announced a strategic cooperation to jointly offer pay-on-production.

The aim of the cooperation is to offer customers adaptable production capacities that are booked as a service. Customers can thus focus entirely on product development and customer satisfaction without having to bear investment costs.

Kuka is a global provider of engineering services and manufacturer of flexible, robot-based production systems and manufacturing solutions, from individual machines, components, robots and robot cells to complex production and assembly lines. FlexFactory, a joint venture of MHP, Munich Re and Porsche, acts as a business enabler. It provides the knowledge to build a flexible factory owned by external investors and shared by multiple users.

Triggered by dynamically changing customer expectations that put manufacturing companies under high investment pressure, the economy is currently undergoing a major transformation. To remain competitive in the future, traditional processes must be adapted. The targeted concept for operator models can achieve exactly this.

In the operator model, or pay-on-production, the customer does not buy a production plant, but only purchases the parts produced. The customer pays a predefined price per product. In this way, the capital tied up by the two partners in machinery and equipment is recouped through the service provided. Pay-on-production is a concept developed and successfully practiced in the automotive industry, which immediately made production the most productive in the world in terms of assembly hours per vehicle. With Kuka Toledo Production Operations, which has been manufacturing body shells according to this model since 2006, Kuka has already gained many years of experience in the field.

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Gerald Mies (left), CEO Kuka Systems, and Dr. Phillipp Hypko, Managing Director FlexFactory, announced the cooperation at automatica in Munich.

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