The Future of Ceramics. Available online the slides of the 11th Acimac Annual Meeting "Digital Evolution"

On 12 November, more than 280 professionals took part in the technical session of the Forum, which focused this year on solutions for new smart factories. Download the day’s presentations.

On Tuesday 12 November “The Future of Ceramics” hosted the technological session of the 11th Acimac Annual Meeting devoted this year to the highly topical theme of digitalisation of ceramic companies.

Solutions for complete digitalisation of factories, intralogistics and warehouses and the new frontiers of digital decoration were the themes explored by leading supplier companies: BMR, LB, Metco, Movetro/Intermac, Plannet, Proteo, Sacmi, Sicer, System Ceramics, Toyota Material Handling and Weflex.

The audience showed a keen interest in the 13 presentations, all of which were of very high quality in terms of content. There were also three roundtable discussions where the speakers shared ideas and opinions with the producer companies represented by Maurizio Mambelli (Florim), Giulia Catti and Matteo Bondavalli (Mariner), Roberto Fornaciari (Labocer), Luca Costi (Del Conca), Gianpaolo Capitanio (Casalgrande Padana), Gilberto Pedna (ABK), Alessandro Barbieri (Italgraniti) and Eugenio Belli (Kerbell).

It was the tile manufacturers themselves who argued that it is now essential for ceramic producers to continue the process of digitalisation they have initiated and that the transformation into full-scale smart factories needs to be completed within the shortest possible timeframe.

FIRST SESSION
Digitalisation in intralogistics and warehouses: new solutions for creating value

09.15

PRIME, Digital Industrial Design

Cristian Mattioli (System Ceramics)

 

09.30

The road to plant digitalisation

Paola Gatti (Sacmi)

09.45

The BMR digital line and logistics 4.0

Marco Sichi (BMR)

10.00

Digital Synergies

Stefano Guidarini (Proteo Engineering)

10.15

The digital factory by LB: improving the efficiency of machine and plant interactions in the PLUS and STAR solutions

Giuseppe Cavani, Stefano Puccini (LB)

10.30

Software for the factory 4.0: the experience of FLORIM with COMPASS10

Fabrizio Arnaldi (Plannet) e Maurizio Mambelli (Florim)

SECOND SESSION
Digitalisation in intralogistics and warehouses: new solutions for creating value

11.45

Intralogistics 4.0, the added value of modern ceramics

Giuseppe Miselli (Sacmi) e Stefano Cudicio (Toyota Material Handling Italia)

12.00

Picking management and optimisation

Paolo Cometto, Franco Angelotti (Movetro/Intermac)

12.15

Intralogistics: innovative technologies for use in new management models

Paolo Serpagli, Miki Ferrari (Weflex)

THIRD SESSION
The new frontiers of digital decoration of ceramic surfaces

14.35

Decoration: the innovation of digital technology from System Ceramics

Paolo Casarini (System Ceramics)

 

14.50

The need for production flexibility and consistent quality. The response from Sicer: supplier or partner?

Sergio Marcaccioli (Sicer)

15.05

Synchronisation of the digital decoration process

Roberto Scala, Davide Medici (Sacmi)

15.20

Je pense donc Je suis digital

Claudio Casolari (Metco)