Establishing comprehensive planning,
predictive maintenance and predictive energy management in a mill enables
immediate practical and financial benefits. In order to further explore the potentials brought by Industry
4.0, CTA interviewed two market
leaders in software solutions for textile finishing at ITMA 2019.
Sedo
Treepoint shapes the digital future with integrated software
Sedo Treepoint, a market leader in textile dyeing
and finishing integration, helps customers to achieve more intelligent and
smarter processes and workflows in their production with its innovative
systems.
Andreas Hannes, Marketing Manager, Sedo Treepoint
said: “Digitalization and the smart factory are big challenges for our
customers – especially in dyeing and finishing, there is a high potential for
savings and technological improvements. Sedo Treepoint as a market leader in
dyeing and finishing automation has been providing innovative solutions to our
customers for more than 40 years. Our new developments shown at ITMA are
designed for the Smart factory and will help customers to strengthen
competitive advantages.”
At the show, the company introduced for the first
time the newly developed Sedomat 8000 series controller range, which is
specially designed to meet the latest requirements of Industry 4.0 and more.
Developed for the Smart Factory the new generation
has flexible, web-based user interfaces, on-board Wi-Fi and many more cutting
edge features. The new 8000 series was a focus that attracts enormous interest.
Sedomat 8000 series comes in three different sizes
to match exactly customer’s needs. In addition to the well proven benefits of
their Sedomat controllers, the new series offers different interfaces like
CANopen, Profibus DP and MODBUS. To improve the communication between different
systems, OPC UA interface will enhance data.
Intelligent software solutions completed the
portfolio and could contribute to production optimization significantly.
Visitors were provided an insight into the different applications like new
SedoMaster and SedoExpert versions and they could learn about how to realize
sustainability along the supply chain with ColorMaster and EnergyMaster.
SedoMaster is the core of the production shop
floor: Intelligent central production planning, control, monitoring and
reporting becomes available with SedoMaster MES for all key operators and the
management due to the connection of all dyeing and all finishing machines.
Powerful reporting gives information on productivity, resource cost and OEE.
The solutions of Sedo Treepoint help to plan,
control and monitor machinery as well as the connected peripheries optimally.
They help to reduce resources and costs and increase productivity and
efficiency at the same time. More importantly, the new SedoAPP makes real time
data available wherever they are need.
SETEX uncovers Industry 4.0 potential in textile manufacturing
SETEX, a global leader in designing, manufacturing
and implementation of automation solutions for the textile dyeing and finishing
market, presented a wide range of solutions at ITMA 2019.
As introduced by Jürgen
Jerzembeck, Head of Marketing, SETEX Schermuly textile computer GmbH, the brand new SETEX 390 controller generation made in Germany is
designed as intelligent control solution for stand-alone machines and to
facilitate integration and rapprochement between operational und information
technology (OT und IT).
Each model features user interfaces as a
web application, which turns SETEX 390 controller into a powerful industrial
internet device (IIOT). Customers can use their PC, tablet or smartphone as a
remote client without additional software installation.
In addition, the E390 12
controller for exhaust dye machines helps people understand and interact with
processes without losing context through independently swiped header, body and
bottom screens.
Intelligent software wizards use well-known
dyeing curve symbols to guide the user graphically by drag-n-drop through the
program generation process.
A new formula engine for parameter
calculations determines beside times, consumption and events the estimated
batch consumption for steam, water and more resources.

Jerzembeck pointed out, when the production performance is not satisfied, it is suggested
to check if the machines, the process or the production environment's value
stream cause problems.
He gave some examples to explain how SETEX's solutions deal with the
production performance issue. For example, comprehensive OrgaTEX BI analyses
show production performance and quality rate from reasons of planned and
unplanned downtimes to production run-time exceeding set-time.
The new OrgaTEX-inteos software is an innovative
manufacturing operation management system that furnishes textile companies with
digital intelligence for more profit along the textile value chain, from fiber
to product and from recipe to delivery.
“Often companies don´t know where their energy
goes. With the OrgaTEX Energy Management we identify in a first step major
energy and resource consumers for water, steam, gas and electricity,” Jerzembeck said. The pro-active OrgaTEX Energy
Management stands for avoiding energy peak loads and an energy flexible
production.
Another highlight at the booth was the new OrgaTEX
Maintenance Manager. It provides an intelligent, networked service between PLC,
HMI and MES software, connecting information from machine parts master data and
maintenance rules with intelligent sensor data, presented in overview of
current production planning.
For technical textiles, SETEX has developed the
FabricINSPECTOR camera device technology further to detect gap and thread size
for woven fabrics. Special fabrics for medical or geo-technical applications
are subject to strict limits on grid size and proportions.
“With new camera optics and all new software, we
will again invest more in entering the technical textile market,” Jerzembeck said.
Commenting on the market development and trend, Louie
Lei, General Manager of SETEX Textile Computer Ltd., said: “Industry 4.0 is
still a slogan and everybody is exploring how it can be achieved. Major
manufacturers in China are moving towards this direction. Collecting all data
from the machine is important as most of the advanced machinery.”
“We specialize in both software and hardware, so we
understand all things about signals. SETEX will be able to contribute to the
development of Industry 4.0,” Lei added.