From left to right: Thomas Kucher, director supply chain management Schuler Group; Rohitashwa Pant, chief digital officer Schuler Group; Christoph Schneider, vice president product management application bei ifm solutions; Ernst Schwoshuber, head of service sales Germany Schuler Group and Volker Scharpf, global category manager electrical systems Schuler Group during the signingIn order to monitor and improve the quality in press shops through digitalisation,
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Schuler Group have signed a cooperation agreement. Their aim is to now offer customers more transparency and increase efficiency in sheet metal forming.
The Schuler Group has 180 years of experience in forming technology and is a world market leader. Using digital solutions such as Track and Trace, Visual Die Protection or DigiSim, the company offers numerous tools that support digitalisation in press shops. ifm SmartStamp expands this offering with a software tool that detects tilting, eccentricity and the resulting tilting moment on forming presses within milliseconds.
Christoph Schneider, vice president product management applications at ifm, said: “If the ram is tilted too far, the press guides are subjected to excessive strain and will be damaged in the long term.”
The tool protects the press from excessive wear and damage, and helps to improve availability. SmartStamp is seamlessly integrated into the moneo IIoT platform — and now also into the Metris platform from Andritz, Schuler’s parent company. Rohitashwa Pant, chief digital officer of the Schuler Group, said: “Thanks to combination with the data from our cloud-based Digital Solutions, customers benefit from interoperability and consequently even higher transparency in the press shop.”
The cooperation agreement now signed provides for collaboration in sales. Customers can only benefit from the use of ifm’s SmartStamp and Schuler’s Digital Solutions. It is immaterial which system customers use when they start to digitalise. They can expand their digitalisation solution with the other system at any time.