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ENGEL AUSTRIA has launched its new “ENGEL Technology Center. Innovation at heart,” a plastics processing operation and the heart of the latest expansion at its headquarters in Schwertberg, Austria.
“We have created our own pilot plant for vertical integration in injection molding and can thus support our customers even more comprehensively on their way to implementing the smart factory,” says Dr. Stefan Engleder, CEO of the ENGEL Group.
First User of the Latest Technologies
All the machines in the new ENGEL technology center are equipped with a wide variety of assistance systems from ENGEL's iQ product family. In addition to iQ weight control, iQ clamp control and iQ flow control, which have been very successfully established in injection molding companies for some time now, the brand-new iQ systems, which
ENGEL will be presenting at K 2019 in Düsseldorf in October, are deployed at the technology center at a particularly early stage. “Innovation at heart” is not only part of the new technology center's name, but also the guiding policy.
Process Optimization Across Multiple Locations
Featuring 1,700 m² of machine floor space, the ENGEL technology center provides particularly practical demonstrations of integration beyond the boundaries of a single location, as it is connected to the technology centers at ENGEL’s plants and subsidiaries worldwide. “From Schwertberg, we can monitor and remotely maintain the production cells in Shanghai, Mexico or Hanover, for example,” says Engleder.
Key products for this are the ENGEL e- connect customer portal and TIG authentig. The MES by ENGEL subsidiary TIG uses a cloud solution to make all machine parks within the production network transparent. This means that, for example, machine utilization can be optimized across multiple locations.
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We ourselves are the first users of all newly developed inject 4.0 technologies,” says Engleder. Numerous new inject 4.0 products are also in the development pipeline for K 2019. “The aim of inject 4.0 is to leverage the full potential of machines, systems and technologies in order to strengthen competitiveness, act more flexibly and master the increasing complexity of production,” Engleder points out.
Source: ENGEL