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DNAPhone Srl from Italy
DNAPhone is an innovative Italian company that develops diagnostic systems for quality controls in the Food&Beverage sectors. Smart Analysis is the main product dedicated to small and medium-sized wineries and breweries who want to improve their quality control in a simple way, without the need for specialised personnel or dedicated laboratories.
The main purpose of the digital twin in DNAPhone’s project was the optimization and best quality of the product and of the production line, optimising the operational and managerial part. The project included simulation of the behaviour of devices to characterise them and choose the best optical or electronic one to improve product performance.
Salvagnini Maschinenbau GmbH from Austria
Salvagnini Maschinenbau GmbH an engineering company specialised in the development and production of sheet metal bending machines. Situated in Ennsdorf/Austria, Salvagnini has 447 employees, around half of them involved in the production of bending machines.
Salvagnini developed a digital twin for predictive maintenance to increase machine availability in the field, support service technicians and consult R&D engineers and management. Successful implementation of this digital twin further strengthened the most relevant business KPIs of Salvagnini: total cost of ownership (TCO) at customer, customer satisfaction and service portfolio diversity.
Pressious Arvantidis S.A. from Greece
Pressious Arvantidis is the largest graphic design and offset printing company in Greece, maintaining a list of over 800 businesses as active clients across Europe and is awarded for innovative printing products and designs (Environmental Awards 2013, Packaging Innovation Awards 2017). Its printing factory is located close to Athens and currently executes more than 10,000 printing orders per year. Currently, it has 100 employees in 12 different departments.
Pressious adopted the digital twin technology to optimise production and minimise environmental footprint. They mapped all processes to digital ones, which allowed them to run them in a safe environment with minimal cost. This project allowed them to optimise orders and production by configuring the machines through the digital twin.
Marovt d.o.o. from Slovenia
Marovt d.o.o, is a family-owned company with over 220 employees and with one of the most advanced forging productions in Europe. The main activity of our company is the high-quality forging, machining of forged parts and the production of turning parts for the most prestigious leading trademarks in the automotive industry.
The company aimed to improve their scheduling process by introducing a digital twin for the production process in their turning facility Loče. The ultimate goal was to fully digitise the company and improve the scheduling process which was often affected by unplanned events and repetitive redoing of schedules.
Neutroplast – Indústria de embalagens Plásticas S.A. from Portugal
Neutroplast is an SME that offers primary packaging and medical devices within the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and healthcare sectors. With a consolidated experience of 28 years, there is a constant pursuit of innovation and new techniques that guarantee the improvement of solutions for packaging.
The project aimed to create a digital twin application for an industrial process to enhance overall performance. The digital twin application served as a foundation for disseminating the solution to all processes and technologies at Neutroplast, increasing expertise in core competences and moving towards the goal of zero-defects.
Croom Precision Tooling from Ireland
Croom Precision Tooling operates a vertically Integrated Management System (IMS) accredited to ISO 13485 and ISO 14001. In working with over 72% of our customer base for over 20 years, we continue to build long lasting partnerships with the medical industries leading companies in providing high quality Class I, II & III Orthopaedic Implants and Instruments at a competitive cost.
The company aimed to improve their manufacturing process through digitalisation by focusing on optimisation, best quality and preventative maintenance. The experiment was focused on developing a digital twin application for the HAAS Multigrind processing femoral knee castings.
Juntas Industriales y Navales S.L. from Spain
Juntas Industriales y Navales is a company specialised in the manufacturing of tailor-made sealing gaskets from a wide range of materials that are applied to different industries, such as energy, oil & gas, steel, maritime, concrete, chemical & pharmaceutical, water treatment.
The digital twin will serve for the predictive maintenance of the machines used for cutting and pressing, for the manufacturing of gaskets. The system monitors several variables that are relevant for the shelf life and functioning of machines and give alerts when a parameter is out of the established range, or a machine is reaching the end of its shelf life and can cause important losses or problems to the company.
Legumbres la Tierrina Vaqueira S.L.U. from Spain
Company funded in 2005, dedicated to the cultivation, manufacturing and packaging of fresh and dry beans belonging to the Protected Geographical Indication “Faba de Asturias” and other legumes, some of them with ecological label (agrifood sector).
The digital twin is used for the monitoring of the process of the fresh beans pods that the company harvested: the entrance and the passage to the warehouse, including the environmental conditions of the storage. The company also developed a web application which is able to predict the amount of material that will be entering the storage using historical data. The system includes a traceability module to register the batches and all the stages and incidences associated with them, and also a dashboard for visualisation.
Marina Textil, S.L. from Spain
Marina Textil is a Spanish company, founded in 1995 with a production plant near Barcelona, whose activity is focused on the manufacturing and commercialization of technical protective fabrics (woven fabrics, knitted fabrics) to produce personal protective equipment (PPEs) for a wide range of industrial sectors (chemical, foundries, electrical petrochemical, clean rooms, automotive, electronics, etc.), but also for the services sector (firefighters, police).
The company was already collecting real-time insights from its production plant. In this experiment they further developed their Extranet to optimise the purchase process and offer new features to the clients. This includes a dynamic interface in which clients can consult the foreseen delivery times of their recurring items in real time. The digital twin should reduce production costs and order lead-times and optimise delivering times which at the end lead to increased customer satisfaction.
PLANETA Technology D.O.O. from Serbia
The company Planeta Technology was established in 2007. The company designs and manufactures furniture and furnishes residential and commercial interiors.
The digital twin system developed for Planeta Technology allows to monitor the dynamics of the production system and predict its behaviour in the digital environment. The system consists of two main elements: 1) the collection of production data, energy, emission and waste related data and 2) complex modelling of their relations to understand when small deviations in process data will indicate “big” problems in the environment-related quality aspects. The goal was to enable proactive detection of problems and avoiding that environment-related effects will escalate.
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