Innovations in greener manufacturing and technology

from Surface World June 2023

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In order to remain competitive, the market requires shorter and shorter reaction times, higher quality and lower prices. Our task is to produce processes in surface technology using efficient and environmentally friendly technologies. Environmental friendliness, especially in electroplating, also plays a major role in health, corporate image and sales strategy. In order to be able to withstand these requirements and the constantly growing competitors, the automation of companies is of the greatest importance for today’s and future competitiveness.

Based on cyber-physical approaches in electroplating, new potentials can arise that meet customer requirements and the processes promote continuous development.

Adaptable modules that describe electroplating processes help to increase process transparency. In just a few steps, environmental and production key figures can be calculated according to customer orders, but electrolyte additives can also be determined and controlled. Through well thought-out automation, the quality is kept constant, complex processes are visualized, project management is digitized, productspecific refinement, analyses are carried out, quality management is digitized and many other activities that take place before or after are intrigued.

Examples such as increasing your system productivity, digital production key figures, batch tracking, quality assurance, production reliability, incorrect diagnosis, remote maintenance support are standard in every control today.

The automation for each factory that is intrigued with Electroplating expertise, we have linked the plant control with quality features, sensors, cameras, robotics and the corresponding department.

With today’s 3D printing technology, selective processes for the finishing processes such as nickel, tin, silver, gold can be produced in a few days, inexpensively and in an environmentally friendly manner. Thus, with well thought-out automation and environmentally friendly process technology, greener production is produced.

This lecture is intended to enlighten the audience about how important it is to transfer the specialist knowledge of production to automation and environmentally friendly technology in order to be able to keep up with the competition and to make your own company transparent.

Smart production systems with IT landscape

Through well thought-out processes, company standards and automation, the productions are connected with each other, as in the example before and after.

This achieves greener manufacturing and technology. In the following examples you will be taken into the automation landscape.

Connections of the interfaces and create the new IT landscape with algorithm and IATF 16949, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards, a landscape was created that consumes fewer resources at the same time, prints spare parts from 3D printing, raw materials are automatically generated at certain times, customers the insight into production to make decisions faster, evaluate production times and automatically recommend actions, connect all department processes and react quickly, produce less waste, remind employees of maintenance in good time, carry out automatic checks, track first in first out and document actions and troubleshooting throughout the chain.