• ARBURG makes the vision of the cyber-physical production system reality: production efficiency with Industry 4.0
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For the latest film in the series on Industry 4.0 at K 2016, Plas.TV visited ARBURG in Loßburg.
The company makes injection moulding machines, robotic systems and an additive manufacturing system. It works with its customers to develop complex turnkey solutions. The objective is to constantly increase customers’ production efficiency. One way of doing this is with Industry 4.0 modules. For a long time now, this has extended beyond simple injection moulding alone to include up- and downstream processes, providing flexible adaptability to the required product.
Heinz Gaub, Managing Director Technology & Engineering, sums it up like this: “For us, Industry 4.0 means combining information technology and production engineering into a cyber-physical production system. This system rests on three pillars: the smart machines, the superordinate host computer system that uses IT to connect the machines, and the interfaces and communication protocols that allow machines and peripherals to communicate with each other.
Assistance systems allow our customers to monitor and control the entire manufacturing process. In this way, fault-free quality parts can be manufactured efficiently. This offers decisive advantages for our customers’ competitiveness.”
See more in the film in our series on Industry 4.0 at K 2016: Link to the film
Best practice for Industry 4.0 in plastics and rubber machinery manufacturing on “plastics40.tv”
35 member companies are already featured with practical examples of Industry 4.0 on our new website for K 2016. This provides a preview of the technologies they will be showing. Further details and more companies will be added until the start of the fair. The site will also include a technology overview on Industry 4.0 in plastics and rubber machinery manufacturing as well as the contributions from our Kountdown series.
K 2016 and Industry 4.0
The VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association and its member firms have set themselves the target of bringing Industry 4.0 to life with specific practical examples at K 2016. They want to make the sector aware of which Industry 4.0 technologies are already successfully being used today for improving production efficiency in plastics and rubber machinery manufacturing and to highlight the advantages for their customers.
With the series of films entitled “K 2016: Der Kountdown läuft!“ [“K 2016: the Kountdown has begun”] they will in the months between now and the start of the fair be previewing what they plan to show at K 2016. The series is a VDMA and Plas.TV co-production.
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