A dedicated event at Biesse customer’s site HolzTec Agenture-Handel at Werl and a new achievement to celebrate: the “Selco WN7” beam saw is the thousandth machine connected with “Sophia”, the IoT platform created in collaboration with Accenture.
HolzTec Agenture-Handel is a German company that produces Corian® and wood-based materials and provides services for craft activities: founded in 2008, it has quickly increased the production of materials over the years by focusing its activities on cutting, milling and wood edging. Thanks to the IoT “Sophia” platform, installed on the “Selco WN7” beam saw, it is possible to enable a wide range of digital services that simplify and rationalize post-sales work management. “Sophia” is a digital platform that provides users with access to more machine information and initiates concrete actions to optimise performance and monitor the quality of the work produced, anticipating the causes of faults and providing clear solutions to resolve any anomalies. The data gathered and analysed by artificial intelligence is transformed into useful data to help optimise customer production and product quality, providing extremely valuable opportunities for growth. This information also provides customers with tools to prevent problems that could damage production. Thanks to “Sophia”, Biesse can take proactive steps to contact customers, reducing machine stoppages and inefficient time-wasting. “Biesse Group in collaboration with Accenture has undertaken a challenging digital transformation journey since 2017, aiming to generate greater value from machines. Connecting the 1.000th machine in less than two years from the launch of “Sophia” platform is an important event for our company and demonstrates once more our commitment to assure the greatest Customer satisfaction. We are really proud to be one of the few companies in the industry that has reached this milestone”, said Stefano Calestani, Service Innovation Director.
Accenture is investing significantly in Industry X.0 capabilities like, for example, the Industry X.0 Innovation Center in Modena. The Center hosts a real manufacturing plant in the heart of Italy’s manufacturing region and consists of a shopfloor with real working machines where companies can use connected devices and collaborative ecosystems to explore solutions for improving efficiency and productivity, transforming operating models, and developing new business opportunities.
