Renewal, upgrading, performance. Three words that set the scene for the opening - on 19th July in the city of Izmir - of the “Revamping kits and digital solutions for quality improvement and energy savings” conference (at the Grand Izmir Ozdilek Hotel) organised by Sacmi Istanbul. This event aims to bring customers up to speed on the subject of process revamping and digitalization, factors crucial to quality enhancement and energy resource optimisation.
Sacmi has brought together numerous speakers - technicians, supervisors and area managers - to give an overview of the key challenge faced by the tile, sanitaryware and tableware industries every day (i.e. the need for plant modernisation, which must always ensure demonstrably higher quality and efficiency in the short-medium term). After an introduction from the manager of Sacmi Istanbul, Stefano Donzelli, Benedetto Spinelli of Sacmi Imola (Tiles BU) will illustrate the programme for the day.
Firstly, a general assessment of Sacmi-developed energy saving solutions will be provided by Daniele Baldini from Sacmi Forni, the Group company that designs and manufactures the tile driers and kilns with the best energy performance on the market. He'll be followed by his colleague Giovanni Marnati, a quality improvement expert.
The firing department is crucial to any company modernisation plan. So the second part of the conference has a dual focus: on the one hand, the link between modern market requirements and modern revamping plans in the sanitaryware and tableware sectors (illustrated by Thomas Batzel of Riedhammer, Tableware BU) and, on the other, technical ceramics, another strategic sector where Sacmi-Riedhammer combines efficiency and performance with consumption-containing, environmentally friendly solutions (illustrated by Gerhard Nievelle, Technical Ceramics).
The conference will end with a close look at Industry 4.0, that 'process digitalization' which builds true smart factories: more compact, flexible, efficient and competitive plants that respond more effectively to customers' requirements. This aspect will be covered by Massimiliano Baruzzi (Sacmi Imola HMI and MES Automation Systems R&D). He'll explain how solutions such as the advanced Sacmi H.E.R.E. supervisor feature not only monitoring and predictive diagnostic functions but also integrated smart systems that interface directly with the customer's ERP to provide a new order management, logistics and stock logic.