The Future of Ceramics hosts the 11th Acimac Annual Meeting on Digital Evolution in the ceramic sector

In recent years, the Italian ceramic industry has invested heavily in modernising its factories by adopting the latest plant and technology as part of the incentives offered by the Industry 4.0 Plan. The next step is to arrive at fully digitalised factories where all the individual machines in the production line are interconnected and interact both amongst themselves and with the company management system.

This will be the main theme of the second day of the event The Future of Ceramics held in Forum Monzani in Modena, which on Tuesday 12 November will host the technical sessions of the 11th Acimac Annual Meeting, devoted this year to Digital Evolution.   

There will be three sessions with a total of 14 presentations interspersed with three roundtable discussions where technology suppliers will exchange views with users and with the owners and technical directors of Italian ceramic tile companies.

This second day’s events are also open to all ceramic professionals (admission is free with online registration on the website www.thefutureofceramics.com).

The first part of the conference will concentrate on new technologies for company digitalisation. Cristian Mattioli (System Ceramics) will describe the role of PRIME software in Digital Industrial Design. Paola Gatti (Sacmi) will illustrate the potential of H.E.R.E. software and Marco Sichi (BMR) will discuss the positive effects in terms of improved logistic efficiency achieved by the new digital lines for ceramic surface finishing operations. Stefano Guidarini (Proteo Engineering) will discuss “Digital Synergies”, then Giuseppe Cavani and Stefano Puccini (LB) will illustrate the opportunities for more efficient interactions with plant and machinery offered by the PLUS and STAR solutions. Finally, Fabrizio Arnaldi (Plannet) and Maurizio Mambelli (Logistics Director of the Florim facility in Mordano) will describe the results achieved by Florim with the adoption of Compass10 technology.

The second session will focus on intralogistics and warehouses, factory departments that in the past were considered a cost but which with the new digital technologies can now be transformed into strategic competitive factors capable of creating value and improving the efficiency of customer service, the part of the company in closest contact with the market.

A representative of Sacmi will give a talk on Intralogistics 4.0, Paolo Cometto and Franco Angelotti (Intermac/Movetro) will discuss picking management and optimisation, and Paolo Serpagli, Miki Ferrari and Alessandro Fiori (Weflex) will present new management models.

The final afternoon session devoted to the new frontiers in digital decoration of ceramic surfaces will feature talks by Paolo Casarini (System Ceramics), Roberto Scala and Davide Medici (Sacmi), Sergio Marcaccioli (Sicer) and Claudio Casolari (Metco).