Siempelkamp, a leading technology provider of machinery and equipment for the wood-based panel industry, announced the signing of a partnership agreement with the pioneering Israeli hi-tech company Smartech.
The two parties will jointly offer the closed-loop Prod-IQ · SmartPress solution for engineered wood panel presses. The Prod-IQ · SmartPress solution utilizes AI and machine learning algorithms and real-time data to directly increase press throughput and quality while lowering manufacturing costs.
The Prod-IQ · SmartPress architecture aggregates real time production parameters along with contextual input from various press operators, and then generates a new operational base-line for higher performance levels across the mill’s shifts. Autonomous process decision-making has conventionally resided with the machinery operator, Prod-IQ · SmartPress now shifts autonomous decision-making to the plant itself.
Siempelkamp and Smartech have validated the unprecedented capabilities of Prod-IQ · SmartPress on a full-scale wood panel production line with a leading global engineered wood panel manufacturer.
Hansjoerg Prettner, Smartech’s VP Europe and Asia and a wood-panel industry veteran with almost twenty-years’ experience, said: “The capabilities of Prod-IQ · SmartPress have shown that innovative AI technologies can bring unprecedented benefits to manufacturers by unleashing the potential of data and increasing productivity. Smartech and Siempelkamp are revolutionizing the wood panel sector with their AI-based solution that it is far beyond industry 4.0”.
