pare the company as a whole not just for current requi rements but for future requirements as well To functi on at all industrial production requires a large amount of data Quality controls component measurements but also the temperature and humidity of the produc tion hall it is all data that is generated and saved but that is sensibly used only in the rarest of cases states Andreas Kurzmann International IT Manager at Greiner Assistec But it is precisely in the systematic use of this data that there is an incredibly valuable re source waiting to be discovered and put to economic use For this the data records of systems that are often not communicating with one another must first be collected prepared and made available Measurement data highlights interconnections A simple example shows how complex the matter is If the air temperature in a non air conditioned produc tion hall rises in summer the cooling of an injection molding tool must be readjusted because moisture condenses on a tool that is too cold Consequently however the production requires other cycle times and the machine must thus be provided with different settings This dependency on environmental condi tions can still be relatively easily tracked but many interconnections require analysis using mathematical methods An open factory gate can have a direct ef fect on rejects and the quality of production in this regard measuring data can help in recognizing such interconnections says Kurzmann pointing out one of the advantages But AMANDA at Greiner Assistec by no means in volves only a pure IT topic It also involves classical tasks such as networking jobs gathering and saving data and extends to the development of mathe matical statistical methods of analysis and should fundamentally result in a more comprehensive un derstanding of production processes and the things that influence them The currently available systems may be indeed long established but in such a diver se field with different production technologies there are still very few examples of successful implemen tations The results that the project will actually bring will be shown at the end of the two year pilot pha se but Roland Häupl Technical Director at Greiner Assistec is confident that production will become safer and more efficient as a result Subsequently ac cording to experts the rejects as well as the produc tion costs will be reduced The area of prediction that is the forecasting of results based on known trends in pro cesses is particularly exciting for us Fun ctioning systems are examples of predicti ve maintenance that many are already fa miliar with generally used on production processes these open many new possibilities Häupl points out The safety aspects can also not be ignored Through the distribution of centrally available data to the ma chines manual inputs and sources of error can be minimized thus avoiding complaints They say that whoever has data has power That is certainly true but it is also true that such a person also has the responsibility to use this data carefully We will provide evidence for this in the coming two years says Roland Häupl 502 16 unique plasticspaper They say that whoever has data has power That is certainly true but it is also true that such a person also has the responsibility to use this data carefully Roland Häupl Technical Director Greiner Assistec Focus Data generated during the production process will be analyzed even more accurately Project leader As of September 2016 Christian Mittermayr is taking over the two year Project AMANDA at Greiner Packaging The 47 year old from Upper Austria has many years of experience in the area of data analysis and project management and was previously employed at Greiner Bio One

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