Industry 4.0

System Ceramics is accelerating the adoption of increasingly sustainable smart factory solutions and continuing its sustainability programme aimed at reducing emissions and water and energy consumption.

An IT architecture that keeps the key production parameters of casting, glazing and robotic finishing under control, all in real time. With immediate advantages thanks to proactive, instantaneous process management.

Digitalization and sustainability are the two key drivers that merge with Sacmi’s wider plant engineering logic. The goal: to maximize productivity and versatility as part of a new manufacturing approach that focuses on environmentally and socially sustainable production, but without compromising on quality or aesthetics.

The new grippers can be adapted to a wider range of anthropomorphic robots for handling wet, dry and fired clay products.

Expansion of the management systems and upgrading of the main machining centres to Industry 4.0 standards are the main focus of Bongioanni Macchine’s new investment plan running until 2024.

With the recent installation of a new generation plant supervisor at the Tocha factory, Sanindusa’s ambitious modernization plan, started in 2019, has been completed.

The Limena-based company has signed a major contract with the Australian producer Brickmakers to supply cutting-edge energy-saving technology as part of an Industry 4.0 approach

The plant will be equipped with four Superfast presses with a total production capacity of 66,000 sqm/day.

An automatic siphon glazing machine supplied by Sacmi has been installed on the Industry 4.0 glazing and handling line in operation since 2018.

The fifth GA2000 robot has been installed as part of Duravit’s plan to upgrade the plant at its Egyptian branch

The new CEO Roberto Magnani confirms the company’s further expansion in R&D activities focused on green technologies and Industry 4.0.

Meccanica 2P, a company that has been supplying technology to the brick industry for over 40 years, has successfully started up and tested a number of lines remotely in recent months using digital plant engineering solutions

KEYcam is the first automatic system for matching tiles, capable of digitalising a ceramic surface produced in certain conditions and reproduce it with different ones, such as different glaze, different inks or even different machines.

Projecta Engineering transfers its experience acquired in the tile industry to the heavy clay sector and revolutionizes the brick and roof tile decoration

While the total renovation of the Roteglia plant will be completed in March, the group has now planned the installation of a turbine to generate electricity in its factory in Rubiera

A third kiln and highly automated storage lines have been successfully started up in the midst of the Covid emergency

The automation systems in the Syrian tile manufacturer’s body preparation department were remotely installed and started up in record time

The Easy Color System was launched remotely at Belite Ceramics while LBXTRA technology was well received at Uniceramics Expo in July.

Panaria Group chooses Progea software solutions to interconnect all its production plants in Italy and abroad.

Opoczno, part of the Polish Cersanit Group, has initiated an ambitious factory modernisation plan, with a new complete Sacmi Continua+ line already up and running since August.