An overview of production data in real time

Smart Production Insights (SPI) by FRITSCH now offers all that and more. “We always wanted to give our customers a live insight into their production processes and thus create the highest degree of transparency,” says Wolfang Stegmaier, Project Manager for Digital Development at FRITSCH. Now, with the continuous capture of data and visualisation of key performance indicators in real-time, producers will be able to achieve targeted improvements in overall equipment effectiveness. Gier, as a trained baker with a passion for dough, puts his experience from many years of interacting with customers into his developments. He knows how customers work with their machines, and what the lines must be capable of to process the sensitive as dough into the desired products.

Lots of little problems can add up to one big one. Knowing this, the digitalization team led by Wolfgang Stegmaier and colleague data analyst Stefan Eydel at FRITSCH decided it was time there was a solution that addressed exactly this phenomenon. The technicians, software specialists and data experts therefore developed Smart Production Insights, which takes a rather unusual approach: the technology records and graphically displays even minor faults that occur from time to time during production. Until now, production or shift managers had no way of responding to these short-lived faults because they were never even detected.