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that are meanwhile being marketed or are currently
Mr Stausberg, do you remember taking your first be trialled as prototypes. When putting together and
steps into the new Digital Age? organizing the project team, we also tested new
With his team of more than 200 experienced engineers, Jochen Adler, CTO of the Oerlikon segment
Manmade Fibers, is focusing on future-oriented technologies with high customer value. This was more of a creeping process than a forms of collaboration, which have proven to be
conscious step. It started with me using the Internet effective and are now being rolled out in other
and e-mail – first on PCs, then on mobile divisions of the company.
end-devices. Meanwhile, digital technology has
invaded every aspect of our lives, be this in our Can you elaborate a little on these new forms of
homes or in our modern cars. About four years ago, collaboration?
the latter resulted in our company starting to consider The speed and dynamism of the development of
how we could create additional customer bene-fits digital products and solutions is breath-taking. Agility processes. This has resulted in agile organizational handling using our Plant Operation Center, or POC in
using artificial intelligence. And automobiles are is therefore an absolute prerequisite for an units, innovative work methods such as design short. This has created innovative Industrie
today increasingly differentiating themselves from organization to be successful here. Our project group thinking and scrum and also in the utilization of virtual 4.0-solutions for our customers – with integrated
each other more by means of digital assistance has been able to organize itself and – without any reality and augmented reality at the customer. storage and communication capabilities, wireless
systems than through classical transmission or clear hierarchies – only had to interact with a sensors, embedded actuators and intelligent
chassis technology. We want to become the textile functional steering committee. It was important that What can your customers now expect ‘digitally’ from software systems. In turn, this allows us to build
bridges between data and material flows and
machine construction trendsetter for technologies of we also had representatives from China and India, Oerlikon? between the virtual and real worlds.
this kind. two of our most important markets, on board. To this I would say the digital refinement of our machines
How does a manmade fiber systems world market leader with end, we were able to include local aspects early on. and production systems for manufacturing yarns, Mr Stausberg, what aspects of this will your
currently more than 3,000 employees successfully undergo digital What have you done to successfully achieve this in Departmental boundaries also have to disappear fibers, nonwovens along the textile value chain. Here, customers already be able to see at the ITMA
transformation? This first and foremost requires an economically solid collaboration with colleagues and customers? when developing digital products. The Development, our pledge is: value-added beyond our excellent Barcelona in Spain 2019?
hardware. We want to further optimize the efficiency
Even in economically difficult times, we had the
foundation and numerous digital change modules such as IT, Customer Services and Operations departments At our trade fair stand in hall H7 / booth A101, we will
organizational adaptability, agility and the qualifying of employees. courage to invest in the future. Following detailed can only develop multifunctionally-interesting digital of the systems and the quality of the end products be offering our visitors a digital experience that allows
Georga Stausberg, CEO, and Jochen Adler, CTO describe the exciting strategy discussions within the management team, solutions if they work together. with digital solutions. True to our e-save philosophy, them to intensely discover and understand our
our mission is to protect the environment and to
we decided to set up an international project group
path the Oerlikon Manmade Fibers segment is embarking on to create two years ago. In discussions with research promote the sustainability of our solutions. For this, machines, systems, components and services. Here,
new digital products and services with superlative customer benefits. Mr Adler, you have been our CTO since 2017. What we will be deploying playful solutions to present the
institutes, companies from various sectors, in-house have you done to master digital trans-formation? we are deploying the know-how of our topic of artificial intelligence. We will be taking our
experts and numerous customers, the group Very much in line with our ‘We drive the markets’ newly-integrated partner AC-Automation – which 360-degree and augmented reality applications as
developed concrete ideas and analyses on which maxim, we are once again ramping up the speed. specializes in large-scale systems automation, well as our virtual showroom with us, to allow visitors
digital products and solutions could be interesting for This means that we have established and expanded transport, packaging and warehouse logistics and to experience complex systems live in 3D. The ‘digital
our customers and what customer benefits could be digital pacemakers on the basis of our product and end product automated quality control. We combine factory’ is already in part becoming a reality in
generated with these. The result is numerous ideas service portfolio and tried-and-tested innovation this with our process competencies and digital data conjunction with our machine exhibits.
Georg Stausberg, CEO of the Oerlikon segment Manmade Fibers, has been driving the digital
transformation at his company since 2015.
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