Extrusion International 1-2021

16 Extrusion International 1/2021 INDUSTRY NEWS From left to right:Davide Pagliarulo, Director Sales NewMachines Western Europe; Tiziano Caprara, newManaging Director at KraussMaffei Italia; Tobias Daniel, Vice President Sales NewMachines and Chairman of KraussMaffei Italia (Photo: KraussMaffei) NewManaging Director „ Tiziano Caprara has taken the position of Managing Direc- tor at KraussMaffei Italia. Tiziano Caprara succeeds Andrea Bottelli, who headed the Italian subsidiary initially for the Netstal brand (now KraussMaffei High Performance) and since 2013 also for the KraussMaffei brand, successfully de- veloping the Injection Molding machinery business in Italy. Tiziano Caprara’s expanded portfolio includes injection molding technology as well as extrusion and reaction tech- nology. KraussMaffei’s Abbiategrasso site (reaction process machinery) continues to focus on engineering and manufac- turing white appliance machines and systems. “Strengthening our team with Tiziano Caprara fi ts perfectly with our chosen path of consistently placing the customer at the center of our business, and we are now also tackling this path with momentum in Italy”, explains Tobias Daniel, Vice President Sales New Machines and Chairman of the Board at KraussMaffei Italia. “As Italy is a very important market for us, we will continu- ously expand our local presence and place our customers even more in the center of all our activities throughout the entire customer lifecycle. Having gained relevant interna- tional experience in the industry over the last years, I am glad to dedicate my expertise now to the Italian market,” explains Tiziano Caprara. Kautex Maschinenbau GmbH www.kautex-group.com „ The commissioning of complex applications and produc- tion systems often takes several days or weeks and is associ- ated with considerable downtimes in which the system has to be taken out of production. Virtual development and test- ing environments can speed up the implementation on site considerably. The change in control was the optimization of the cycle time on the post-processing station of a Kautex KBB400D blow molding machine in Spain. The new control change initially developed in the Kautex factory in Bonn and tested on a virtual post-processing station (IntelliGate module). It was only then that the commissioning at the customer’s produc- tion location in Spain was carried out by a service technician on site. The service technician received support from a vir- tually linked Kautex programmer. The complete process on site with commissioning and fi nal adjustments took only one day. It was therefore possible to restart the system after just half the amount of time that was originally calculated. Project manager Dirk Hiller of Kautex sees a great deal of po- tential in the process: “The simulation process which we use for pre-commissioning and testing on virtual Kautex systems reduces time and staf fi ng requirements for the implemen- tation on site. Digital twinning of our machines means that Seamless Commissioning of Systems Thanks to Optimal Preparation on the Digital Twin we are now in a better position to adapt the control of the production system to changing conditions and production requirements more quickly.” Seamless commissioningof systems thanks tooptimal preparationon the digital twin (©KautexMaschinenbauGmbH2021) KraussMaffei www.kraussmaffei.com