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Marchesini showcases Industry 4.0 blister production line
2019-07-04

From:Packaging News


The Marchesini Group has showcased its Industry 4.0 technology at an Open Factory event at its headquarters in Pianoro, Bologna, Italy.


The AI All-Around Innovation event offered customers various new digital concepts in machinery including a blister production line designed and built entirely to combine industrial manufacturing with the techniques of digitalisation and artificial intelligence algorithms.

The outcome is a machine that transforms from a semi-closed system to an open ecosystem, which Marchesini said provides users with a huge amount of data that were previously hidden within the production environment.

This data is selected, interpreted and converted into information which helps improve the quality of the production process, making it possible to anticipate errors or to pinpoint the causes for drops in production and to cancel unscheduled idle times by anticipating routine maintenance operations.

The packaging machinery giant has developed these technologies together with its partner SEA Vision to create Smart Factories: a totally interlinked work environment with self-learning machines where people and computerised systems interact to make products and services and to create innovative and highly efficient workplaces.

At the centre of the Open Factory tour was the recently-inaugurated prototyping department: 1,000sqm  square meters of digital production, where 3D printers are located, operational 24 hours a day, alongside laser cutting systems. These technologies make it possible to develop machine parts in-house, which were formerly outsourced and to prototype samples rapidly. The final goal is to monitor machine wear-and-tear and manage errors and final production costs.

The Open Factory also showcased a revamped logistics department where new investments have been made to increase storage volume by 1,500 cubic meters, boosting production capacity of 20% and cutting material preparation times and also machine delivery.

“AI is a cutting-edge digital project that will enable us to interface with the last frontiers of Industry 4.0, also thanks to our new partners Proteo Engineering and CMP Pharma” said Pietro Cassani, the Group CEO. “These topics are a ‘Must’ and despite their apparent abstractness, they have a strong tangible impact on the business.”

The overall growth of the Marchesini Group reached a consolidated turnover of almost €400m for 2018 – 20% higher than 2017.

Cassani said this growth was attributed the core business of the machines in the pharma industry but also to the systems for packaging cosmetics.

The event also detailed the Group’s Sustainability Report for 2018, illustrating concrete results of Marchesini in 2018 concerning environmental and social sustainability.

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