Industry 4.0

Hatria, Ceramica Flaminia and GSI continue their journey towards total sanitaryware factory automation with Sacmi.

Energy efficiency, environmental sustainability and supply chain optimisation are a few of the innovative features presented by System Ceramics at Tecna 2022.

Tecna 2022 will host a thematic route devoted to innovation.

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

Genya is an innovative software platform for the glazing line, developed as a partnership between System Ceramics’ internal decoration and process computerisation BUs. It is a piece tracking system that provides instructions to digital printers and coordinates decorative applications on tiles or slabs.

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.

Bedeschi has been awarded the project for the Wilnecote plant, which will feature a new state-of-the-art turnkey line built by the Limena-based company.

A modular, scalable approach, with immediate tangible benefits. From 'overview' functions to integrated control of production flows, Sacmi HERE makes manufacturing better and faster by optimising every stage of production and creating a new ecosystem that interlinks technology, people and processes.

From incoming raw materials to the compilation of a finished product picking list, the Prime software platform developed by System Ceramics allows for complete digitalisation of ceramic manufacturing.

To monitor data flows in LB plants and interpret them in real time, LB has partnered with innovative start-up AST4 to develop PLUS, a software compatible with Industry 4.0 production systems.

"Big data" and advanced analyses, the Internet of Things (IoT), automation, robotics and artificial intelligence are ushering in a scenario of distributed innovation that will increasingly accompany the evolution of processes towards maximum efficiency.

B&T NOSTOP and the Service division are able to offer an extensive package of services for companies operating in the ceramic industry.

ICF Welko has upgraded all its product lines with the aim of becoming a key player in the development of the “ceramic factory 4.0”.

ElleK Automazioni has years of experience in designing and building automation systems and processes capable of meeting the needs of Industry 4.0.

H.E.R.E. is a new set of software solutions developed by Sacmi designed to interconnect production processes, allowing for supervision and information exchange with networked machines.

The latest systems designed by Kaeser Compressori in accordance with Industry 4.0 principles deliver energy savings of more than 20% and the ability to constantly monitor compressed air production and consumption.

Prime, the new software platform developed by System, is capable of controlling the production capacity of complete factories and optimising the quality of control processes and standardisation of information received from plants.

The new Machine to Machine (M2M) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications open up new potential for an activity that has always attracted the interest of technicians and process managers.

Logistics is the sector that is seeing the most rapid introduction of new technologies and methods.

Remote assistance and monitoring of capital equipment are seeing a revival thanks to the diffusion of new enabling technologies that allow particularly attractive services to be developed.