The supplier side also confirmed this entirely positive picture: “drinktec is the top international platform to discuss with our two customer groups, beverage producers and the component supplier industry, about the future direction of their automation. As a result, a clear picture can be obtained of the direction in which the use of digital technologies is going,” Holger Schmidt of Endres+Hauser said.
RoboFill 4.0: processes plan and optimize themselves …
Concretely, 4.0 RoboFill is designed to plan and optimize machines and processes itself in the future. The synchronization of customer requests and production orders as well as the associated production planning and control takes place via a virtual image of the production environment in the cloud. Compared to rigid, prefabricated and controlled filling lines in the beverage industry, it creates highly flexibly operating and intelligent processing stations.
In this way, RoboFill 4.0 will especially provide small and medium businesses a decisive competitive edge over competing producers in the international market. Gunter Walden, Division Head of “Food and Beverage” as well as “Water and Sewage” at Siemens AG, gave a good reason for this: “Brewmasters notice with automation that they suddenly have time to deal with what actually is their passion: devising new recipes”. And in fact that is not a virtual, but a very real benefit.
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