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Timesavers ’ 42-WRBW-1350 series , 32-series- 1100-WRBW and 10-series manual grinder .
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We will introduce a new machine family member at Blechexpo , with the same look and feel as our other machines
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EDITOR ’ S NOTE
To watch Timesavers ’ 25th anniversary video , click on the ‘ watch video ’ button above left .
ISMR : Where do you see the greatest challenges and opportunities for your business ?
PK : We want to keep up with demand . The U . S . market is now catching up with the European market and wants a better quality of deburring technology . We are therefore migrating more and more of the deburring technology that we developed for the European market over to the U . S . market . Our mother organisation in the U . S . handles this .
FABTECH in Chicago this year is a key exhibition for us , and we will exhibit three new machines at this show for the U . S . market . We will also demonstrate robotics with our machines at that show , together with a partner .
ISMR : How are you leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence , Big Data , VR , IoT etc . for your business . How have you positioned Timesavers with respect to Industry 4.0 ?
PK : Industry 4.0 is the near-term direction for us . We are also looking at Internet of Things ( IoT ) so that users can obtain more and more usable data from our machines and Big Data can be properly processed .
The other technologies will take 2-3 years to develop on our machines before the data is truly ‘ usable ’. However , we are definitely heading in that direction .
ISMR : Thank you for your time . n
Jochen Boeck ( CEO of Boeck ) and Piet Kooman ( sales director of Timesavers ) will explain , during a webinar on Tuesday 7 September at 09:30 CET , the ‘ ins and outs ’ of abrasive materials and outline how to reduce 50 % of the deburring time by using the right abrasive technology . To register , see www . timesaversint . com / webinars /
Meet Timesavers on its booth at Blechexpo in Stuttgart ( 26-29 October 2021 ) in Hall 5 , booth 5101 .
www . timesaversint . com
ISMR : Are there any products / technologies that you have released or are releasing this year that you would like to discuss ?
PH : We have some exciting news to announce at the Blechexpo exhibition in Stuttgart this October . We will introduce a new machine family member at Blechexpo , with the same look and feel as our other machines .
PK : We have also developed an HMI for a machine that uses pictograms so that the operator is guided through the operating process by these pictograms . We used our training programme to help develop these pictograms , which an operator can then use to set up the machine . The HMI can be applied across all our machines , starting with the 22 series and continuing with the 32 , 42 etc .
Celebrating Timesavers ’ 25th anniversary at the China office .
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