For the plastics machinery industry, digital development has brought new business opportunities, but also the way to meet the challenges of the future. Digital development is not only reflected in the production process, but also in enterprise management and user experience. As the forefront of technology in the plastics machinery industry, the face of new opportunities and challenges, should be in a constant mutation to seek their own development path.
The establishment of a digital information model enables a large amount of information about plastic machinery to be gathered in a large data factory. Whereas in the past it has always taken time for the public to access information about plastic machines, the establishment of a data intelligence factory makes it possible to access information more quickly and more easily. In addition, the establishment of a complete data factory for plastic machines will enable the overall operation of the machine to be grasped and the system to be optimised globally.
Real user data experience
As we all know, data is converted by a series of binary codes, i.e. 0 and 1. With these two simple numbers, there is no limit to the number of conversions that can be made, resulting in the various digital service platforms that can be found everywhere today. Based on the digital service platforms, plastic machinery companies are able to provide the data that users need, bringing them a tangible and realistic data experience.
Take Kostron for example. The company's "Digital Customer Experience" service platform is a platform developed for polymers such as plastic foams, elastomers, adhesives and other compounds. Initially, this platform could only provide customers with the data they needed. Today, the widespread availability of data has enabled the platform to provide data on the basis of which raw material and formulation recommendations can be calculated for customers based on the product properties they require. In addition, production tools for calculating polyurethane foam are now available on the "Digital Customer Experience" platform.
A full range of communication and interconnection applications
Digital information does not exist in isolation, but has to be exchanged with other areas in order to be used to its full potential. The intelligent development often referred to today for the plastic machine industry is based on the interconnection of communications before it can be realised. Communication interconnection forms the basic backbone of intelligent manufacturing, and through digital information, it is possible to make the transmission of communication interconnection more accurate. At the same time, communication interconnection can also provide functions such as maintenance, usage time accumulation and fault problem identification and detection for machines, thus prompting plastic machine companies to produce more efficiently and plastic machine products to better adapt to market needs.
For many industries, the manufacture of stable, reliable and high-performing products; providing a more intimate, reassuring and comfortable user experience is a goal that is constantly pursued in the development of the industry. This is also true for the plastics machinery industry. In today's era of being wrapped up in all kinds of big data, the development of the plastic machinery industry needs to be based on open innovation technology, with big data factories, making users enjoy the new experience brought about by open technology for products.
Not forgetting the original intention, the courage to innovate, and to forge ahead is perhaps the driving force and source of the continuous development of the plastic machine industry.
