Extrusion International 6-2021

42 Extrusion International 6/2021 ECONOMICAL SOLUTIONS FOR PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY “Efficiency meets Sustainability” “As a comprehensive solution provider, our goal is to support our customers sustainably in achieving business success. We combine our machine and application tech- nologies with suitable digital solutions and products to generate clear added value for our customers along the entire value chain,” says Dr. Volker Nilles, Executive Vice President of the New Machines division at KraussMaffei. Consequently, the solutions presented at Fakuma are completely geared toward “Ef fi ciency meets sustainabil- ity” and have a clear focus on output maximization, high product quality, reduction of life cycle costs and ensuring sustainability. This year, KraussMaffei has made the conscious decision to have an all-digital presentation at Fakuma. “Since the situation has become challenging due to the COVID pan- demic, we decided on this kind of trade show appearance early on and used the time to strengthen contact with our customers through digital Pioneers!Talks, road shows and persona conversations,” says Nadine Despineux, Ex- ecutive Vice President of the Digital and Service Solutions division. Digital solutions with customer bene fi ts throughout the lifecycle Digital solutions from KraussMaffei stand for a high ma- chine availability, high product quality and low manu- facturing costs, thus allowing a competitive edge to be gained. At Fakuma, KraussMaffei demonstrated new solutions for customer interaction along the entire value chain. The cloud-based remoteSupport solution supports all series and technologies from KraussMaffei in any place and at any time. This does not only minimize downtimes, but also service costs. In addition to remote service (re- moteAccess) for the machine control system, smartAssist is a video-collaboration app that adds intuitive human-to- human communication. Interactive AR annotations allow even complex tasks to be shown and explained via smart- phone, tablet, computer or smartglasses. The pioneersClub is KraussMaffei’s “digital window”. Customers worldwide take advantage of an easy and transparent access to digitalized data such as individu- alized documentation of the customer’s machines, elec- tronic tutorials for machine series as well as quick and Front and center are cost- effective system solutions for medical technology, logistics packaging, technical appliances and lightweight construction, which allow for a measurable increase in ef fi ciency and sustainability, for example through the use of high percentages of recycledmaterial Cost-effective recycling: The ZE BluePower twin-screw extruders are ideal for the recycling steps of plasticizing, degassing as well as re-pelletizing and re-compounding (Photos: KraussMaffei) Productionmonitoring at any time and anywhere: socialProduction as a desktop, smartphone and tablet application Secure remote support is one click away: smartAssist as a desktop, smartphone and tablet application