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Papermaking. NextLevel
―How Voith is Making Paper Manufacturing Better and More Efficient Through Digitization―
2018 Volume 72 Issue 3 Pages 304-307
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2018 Volume 72 Issue 3 Pages 304-307
Digitization has long since become a fundamental component of machine and plant engineering. And Voith is leading by example. Whether for existing or new paper machines, ‘our digital platform concept stabi lizes and optimizes processes, reduces costs and improves quality,’ says Dr. Christian Naydowski, Vice Presi dent Integrated Solutions at Voith Digital Solutions.
Everyone is talking about “Industrie 4.0” or the Internet of Things. The machine and work environments are going digital. Fast and highly available internet connections are the prerequisite for systematically inte grating digital process tools into the supply chain. With its digital strategy, Voith is already a considerable step ahead. In recent years the machine and plant engineering company has consistently focused on develop ing a product system range for its core areas of business. This expertise is now being pooled across sectors in the new Corporate Division Voith Digital Solutions.
Papermaking. Next Level―The revolution in the paper industry.
One of these core areas is paper manufacturing. Voith has been building paper machines for around 150 years and through numerous developments has revolutionized the manufacturing process for graphic papers, newsprint, packaging paper or specialty papers like banknotes or label holders. Naydowski calls Voith’s next revolution for the paper industry “Papermaking. Next Level”. ‘We want nothing less than to integrate mod ern, dynamically developing information technologies with existing automation to create solutions for the pa per industry.’ The availability of fast internet and high, inexpensive processing power are helping the new automation tools from Voith to make the decisive breakthrough. ‘Sensors, actuators and networked, da ta-based controls in Clouds are the basis of the new technology. What is essentially new is that we can make intelligent use of the cyber world with the physical world of plant construction and its machine components to obtain paper-specific indicators for managing the production process. In this context, speed and access to fast data processing play the decisive role.’
