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VDMA member companies take part in ITMA 2019 expo

21 Jun '19

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More than 220 exhibitors from Germany, including more than 110 companies from VDMA, the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association, from various textile sectors like spinning, nonwoven, weaving, knitting, warp knitting, and finishing are displaying at ITMA 2019. The textile and garment technology expo is being held from June 20-26, 2019, in Barcelona.

VDMA members in Barcelona are displaying most advanced technology solutions and applications of Industry 4.0 (also called Industrial Internet of Things for intelligent and integrated manufacturing) including Smart Services. During the VDMA press conference at ITMA, spokespersons of twelve renowned VDMA member companies showed how Industry 4.0 solutions are impacting the textile process chain, according to a VDMA press release.

“Andritz has pooled its relevant expertise to offer attractive digital solutions for existing and new plants under one technology brand: Metris. Metris technologies are the very latest state-of-the-art in the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) or Industry 4.0 sector and can be fully tailored to individual customer requirements,” Alexandre Butte, director business development, Andritz said.

“Our newly developed mobile machine operation panels and management cockpits have increased user-friendliness significantly. Advanced production assistance systems support the operator to maximise production output at the lowest possible cost while maintaining a consistent high-quality level. Our advanced service tools offer new features such as predictive maintenance, video tutorials and augmented reality support,” Axel Pieper, CTO, Brückner said.

“Our Service 4.0 covers all aspects of improving the bottom line of a production line during lifetime. Based on the availability of a permanent digital communication, Autefa Service 4.0 provides well-graded services for customer’s benefit. Autefa Service 4.0 integrates tasks from well-known daily jobs up to high sophisticated big data algorithms always focused on customer needs,” André Imhof, COO, Autefa Solutions said.

“At ITMA we will build a bridge from machine building via applications and textiles up to the topic of Industry 4.0: We will show seven innovative machines, giving an insight into the ‘Future of Textiles’ and present new digital solutions of KM.ON. The products of our digital brand can be used by our customers and by other textile manufacturers to considerably improve their processes in all business units,” Antonia Gottschalk, managing director, KM.ON, a software start-up company of Karl Mayer said.

“AGV stands for Automatic Guided Vehicles, a technology that has been around for years but has been fuelled recently by the introduction of Industry 4.0. Within shortest time, our team developed a state-of-the-art transport system using a large fleet of intelligently controlled automated guided vehicles. At ITMA Europe 2019 we will be presenting our AGV’s to the specialist audience for the first time and are very excited about the response,” Wilhelm Langius, division head, Neuenhauser Maschinenbau said.

“Oerlikon invites all visitors to this year’s ITMA on a journey into the future of manmade fibre production. We are showing all our guests our vision of a sustainable and automated manmade fibre production in a spectacular virtual 4D showroom: ‘Clean Technology. Smart Factory’ is the motto of the future,” André Wissenberg, vice president marketing, corporate communications and public affairs, Oerlikon Manmade Fibers Segment said.

“Our new developments shown at ITMA are designed for the Smart factory and will help customers to strengthen competitive advantages. We are your Experts for process optimisation,” Andreas Hannes, marketing manager, Sedo-Treepoint said. (GK)

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