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MACHINE BUILDING, FRAMEWORKS & SAFETY FEATURE
EXPLOITING THE POTENTIAL OF DIGITALISATION
At the Drupa trade fair for printing
technologies in May, Lenze showcased a range of innovative solutions designed to help customers on their journey to digitalisation
“
We create the future” was the motto of this year’s Drupa, the world’s leading trade fair for printing technologies, which took place
in Düsseldorf from May 28 to June 7, 2024. It shows that the printing industry is changing. High demands on machine productivity, enormous cost pressure due to falling margins, and the battle for talent, pose major challenges for machine manufacturers and operators. Digitalisation can help here. At Drupa, automation specialist Lenze was
therefore showcasing its digital services and platform offerings, in addition to its scalable and open hardware and software portfolio. The range could be seen live on the stand Lenze shared with MENDEL RG-Systems. “Digital solutions help our customers improve
their total cost of ownership while implementing new business models. By combining operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT), and using the digital twin across the entire machine lifecycle, they become more efficient, save engineering time, reduce energy consumption and conserve resources,” explained Jörn Krimpenfort, global segment manager, Converting & Printing, at Lenze.
DIGITALISATION
Lenze sees itself as a partner to its customers and supports them in their digital transformation. The open automation platform Nupano is just one example of this. This forms the bridge between the IT and OT worlds and enables customers to bring applications (apps) into their machines, even without their own IT expertise, and thus differentiate themselves in the market. Krimpenfort added: “Digitalisation is having a
huge impact on the world of machine builders in the converting and printing industry. Nupano is a key technology for bringing innovation into the machine and leveraging the potential of digitalisation at machine and plant level in a simple and value-adding way. Our customers can offer new digital products, increase the efficiency and sustainability of their converting and printing machines, and generate more recurring revenue with their customers.”
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES THROUGH DIGITAL SOLUTIONS In addition to Nupano, Lenze can come up with many other concrete digital offerings. At the event, it showed innovative solutions such as condition monitoring. No extra sensors are needed for this, because the data already comes from the drive. Lenze also uses AI for machine optimisation
and offers an Asset Performance Platform that creates transparency about the installed components and ensures improved machine availability. The portal is linked directly to the OEM’s machines. If a fault occurs, the machine can automatically create a ticket so that service technicians are informed at an early stage. The ticket shows which component is
affected, which model or variant is involved, what the serial number is, and how the component was installed in the machine’s topology. Incorrect information due to outdated documentation is ruled out: The information comes directly from the PLC, which always reflects the consistent actual state. Since the platform is manufacturer-neutral and relies on open standards, not only Lenze products can be queried.
“In this way, downtimes can be avoided,
throughput times can be optimised, and the OEE (overall equipment efficiency) of the machines can be increased,” explained Krimpenfort.
SEAMLESS TRANSPARENCY FOR MORE SUSTAINABILITY The planning of a machine is complex and decisive for the subsequent efficiency and sustainability in production. That is why Lenze offers the right tools for the hardware, but also for the software in the machine. These enable fast and optimal drive design with the right dimensioning and the lowest possible energy consumption. Precise drive dimensioning, the use of high-efficiency products and regenerative energy form the basis for optimum energy efficiency and resource conservation. In addition, to meet increasing legal requirements, Lenze is already working on the digital product passport (DPP). In the future, the DPP will transparently display all environmentally relevant data on the installed components or a machine, and will provide the basis for efficient recycling management. The basis is the digital twin, which can be created with Lenze’s engineering tool, EASY System Designer, as early as the planning phase.
What a machine is made of, and how
processed materials can be recycled in a targeted manner, is therefore made transparent – an important step towards reducing the industry’s ecological footprint.
Lenze
www.Lenze.com
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