Insight

With the fastener industry’s increasing focus on the networking of all production systems, as well as the evaluation of process data, Marposs Group is offering both software and hardware to customers to fully digitalise their production processes.

Marposs Group’s two product lines, Brankamp and Scwher + Kopka, offer process monitoring devices, MES software and analysis tools for evaluating and storing process data, enabling Marposs to work in close cooperation with its customers to develop new analysis evaluations that are specifically required. 

“The current trend is digitalisation and the evaluation of data and the feedback of these results are put into production,” underlines Joachim Krüger, head of sales support forming and stamping at Marposs Group. “The large amount of machine and process data poses a challenge in terms of filtering and analysing it in a systematic manner. However, it does enable operators to be better supported in the set-up process, as well as help tool life to be improved. That is why in recent years we have invested in the development of software and hardware that allows our customers to fully digitalise their production – meaning processes can be analysed downstream and conclusions drawn about tool life, production problems or production breakdowns.”

Marposs monitoring devices are also an integral part of the automation sector, as the units can analyse and store process data and send signals to the machine. Furthermore, data can be sent from the ERP system to the monitoring terminal and back again. This bi-directional function offers customers many possible applications and supports the automation of production.

“In the last five years we have further advanced the automated processes and integration into forming machines – providing machine operators with helpful, reliable information to support the set-up process and troubleshooting,” points out Joachim. “Sensor signals are also increasingly being used automatically as reliable control values for the machine. Networking between production and operating data will also be further integrated and we will work with our customers and partners to drive forward efficient and reliable production processes.”

With subsidiaries in more than 20 countries worldwide, helping ensure customer support from sales and service in the local language, Marposs Group is also able to recognise local trends and the needs of customers at an early stage, so it can combine the highest technical precision, with local customer proximity, to offer customers optimum cooperation.