"At the first at press conference at ITMA, spokespersons of twelve renowned VDMA member companies showed cased the impact of Industry 4.0 solutions on the textile process chain. The prominent companies that participated included Brückner, KM.ON from Karl Mayer, Mayer & Cie, Oerlikon, Monforts, Sedo -Treepoint and Trützschler among the others."
At the first at press conference at ITMA, spokespersons of twelve renowned VDMA member companies showed cased the impact of Industry 4.0 solutions on the textile process chain. The prominent companies that participated included Brückner, KM.ON from Karl Mayer, Mayer &Cie, Oerlikon, Monforts, Sedo -Treepoint and Trützschler among the others.
André Imhof, COO,Autefa Solutions said, “Industrie 4.0 is relevant only if it adds value as well as profits for the investors, mentioning, “Digitalisation succeeds when the focus is on customer benefits. Axel Pieper, CTO, Brückner Trockentechnik added, “Software innovations around textile machines are becoming increasingly important in product development.”
“In our view the textile industry needs custom-tailored IT solutions to reach the highest level of data
transparency – from fibre to finished product. Direct communication between man and machine does not only enable this consistently transparent presentation of all relevant data, but also gives employees flexible and, most importantly, mobile access to it”, avered Marcus Ott, Managing Director, Halo.
Antonia Gottschalk, Managing Director, KM.ON, a software start-up company of Karl Mayer stated,“We will build a bridge from machine building via applications and textiles up to the topic of Industry 4.0 at ITMA 2019.
We are showing seven innovative machines, giving an insight into the “Future of Textiles” and present new digital solutions of KM.ON. The products of our digital brand can be used by our customers and by other textile manufacturers to considerably improve their processes in all business units.”
Sebastian Mayer, Member of the Management, Mayer &Cie noted, “We aim to always be one step ahead. The digitisation offers us valuable opportunities to stay true to our company principle, beyond the developments in technology.”
André Wissenberg, Vice President Marketing, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Oerlikon Manmade
Fibers Segment: “Oerlikon invites all on a journey into the future of manmade fiber production. We are showing our vision of a sustainable and automated manmade fiber production in a spectacular virtual 4D showroom: "Clean Technology Smart Factory.” is the motto of the future.”
On his part, Andreas Hannes, Marketing Manager, Sedo -Treepoint said, “Digitalisation and the smart factory are big challenges– especially in dyeing and finishing, there is a high potential for savings and technological improvements.He further adds, “Our new developments shown at ITMA are designed for the Smart factory and will help customers to strengthen competitive advantages. We are your experts for process optimisation!”
Thomas Waldmann, MD, Textile Machinery, VDMA, talking exclusively with Sanjay Chawla, FashionatingWorld, about how successful has been the implementation of Industrie 4.0, Waldmannreplied , “It is not as high as expected, given the industry scenario nevertheless we suggest our VDMA members to participate and keep working on it and not to wait for others to start first, Industrie 4.0 largely being a concept of new digital world.”
