Success Story: IIoT Networking: Simple and Flexible
Growing importance of industry 4.0
MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG is a leading global provider of integrated food packaging solutions. MULTIVAC, from the Bavarian town of Wolferschwenden, also offers solutions for product handling, marking, labeling and processing. In addition to the food industry, MULTIVAC also provides solutions for handling and packaging of life science and health care products, as well as industrial and consumer goods. The company has more than 80 subsidiaries and 13 production sites worldwide, and the trend is rising.
For some years now, connectivity and IIoT have become more and more important to MULTIVAC. The networking of machines and production lines, and the extensive process data involved in that, represent an enormous potential for optimizing availability and reducing unplanned downtimes. MULTIVAC relies on netFIELD technology from Hilscher to connect their machines. More specifically, the packaging solutions provider integrates the netFIELD edge gateways into its machines to collect process data independently of the control unit. The collected data can then be easily managed using the netFIELD OS for optimizing services.
A connected machine must always give the customer more advantages than a machine that is offline. Thanks to Hilscher’s netFIELD technology, we can provide highly efficient Smart Services that directly address customers’ needs while increasing customer loyalty at the same time.
Dr. Marius Grathwohl
Vice President Digital Products & Transformation
MULTIVAC
Smart Services are just the beginning
„Smart Services are only the beginning of our successful adaptation to IIoT. There is still a lot of potential yet to be leveraged in the area of service and marketing models,“ explains Dr. Grathwohl, who already has his eye on the next goals. „Automatic updates of entire machines, digitally supported maintenance agreements, pay-per-use models, predictive maintenance: Once we’ve set the foundation for process data analysis with netFIELD technology, a wide range of exciting options await us, and we’re already exploring ways to implement them.“
Customer benefits of netFIELD technology for MULTIVAC:
- Expansion of range of services
- Development of new business models
- Data-based optimization of machine development
- Better preparation and planning of service calls
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