Man - machine connections: BAUMA 2019
From 8 to 14 April the city of Munich was tinged by innovation. We talk about Bauma, beating heart of industry and the most big trade fair in this sector with more than 3.700 expositors. Many Italian stands of this edition (558), second only to Germany (1310), boasting a great detachment compared to other European countries. Interesting numbers which show how much Italy in active and present in the flow of modernization and digitalization of industry.The common denominator of Bauma 2019 was certainly the increasingly close connection between instruments and between man and machine. A focus on safety and management is also essential, fundamental to improve efficiency and productivity.Talking about smart connections, it is impossibile not to have noticed Hatz Diesel with the slogan “Strong. Advanced. Connected.” which has reserved two world previews to Bauma: E1 technology for single-cylinder diesel control and the Hatz Connected Service, a network of digitally controlled engines with innovative cloud-based platforms and apps. Diesel machinery become smart and efficient thanks to IoT, like the solutions showed by Sick. These are smart sensors for special and municipal vehicles, agricultural and forestry machinery for safe outdoor automation, which sees an ever greater collaboration between man and machine. Connections are possible even in the open countrysude thanks to automated processes applied to machinery, which become automatically guided in the field of logistics.Other intelligent connection tools were presented by MTU: Go! Act warns, via smartphone, of the presence of errors in connected systems, allowing to identify and eliminate the fault, while Go! Manage is a platform that connects the customer’s system with the database. These solutions are aimed to ensuring efficient communication between MTU partners, distributors and Customer Assistance Center, with security and data protection as key priorities.Innovations have also been presented in fleet management, as weel as individual machines. The Mercedes service Pro Connect allowed to connect vehicles and people in a smart way, increasing efficiency and productivity. Vehicle data are always available to facilitate fleet programmation and to optimize the planning of any maintenance interventions. Amman offer was very interesting too, with the telematic system ServiceLink that allows companies to have a total control of machinery and fleet data, also applicable to existing machinery. Vehicles owners can access to key informations like battery status and maintenance details online or by the app.For remote maintenance, Trimble’s Software WorksManager is a unique, powerful cloud-based application that enables contractors to manage data and technology resources on civil worksites, increasing efficiency and improving productivity. It includes the possibility to insert data like 3D drawings in wireless modality directly from the building site, while a control panel show a data and resources overview to managers in real time. This software allow a real connection between digital world and physical world, allowing the prevent of expensive errors.Finally, it’s impossible not to mention Caterpillar, not so much for the pavilion almost entirely dedicated to the brand’s most innovative products, as for the installation by its foundation.The Caterpillar Foundation, with the Together.Stronger. platform, ha created a network of non-profit organizations, governments, citizens and business united in fighting poverty, staging a Water Walk in this edition of Bauma. This installation consisted in letting the partecipants feel like walking with cans full of water, reproducing only a fraction of the way women and children take every day. The tanks weighed from 0 to 20 kg and each finished route represented a donation of 5 euros to the foundation.BAUMA 2019 brought with it an important glow of innovation in the industrial world, in which the connection and collaboration between man and machine seems to be keys to the evolution of the product process.
From 8 to 14 April the city of Munich was tinged by innovation. We talk about Bauma, beating heart of industry and the most big trade fair in this sector with more than 3.700 expositors. Many Italian stands of this edition (558), second only to Germany (1310), boasting a great detachment compared to other European countries. Interesting numbers which show how much Italy in active and present in the flow of modernization and digitalization of industry.
The common denominator of Bauma 2019 was certainly the increasingly close connection between instruments and between man and machine. A focus on safety and management is also essential, fundamental to improve efficiency and productivity.
Talking about smart connections, it is impossibile not to have noticed Hatz Diesel with the slogan “Strong. Advanced. Connected.” which has reserved two world previews to Bauma: E1 technology for single-cylinder diesel control and the Hatz Connected Service, a network of digitally controlled engines with innovative cloud-based platforms and apps. Diesel machinery become smart and efficient thanks to IoT, like the solutions showed by Sick. These are smart sensors for special and municipal vehicles, agricultural and forestry machinery for safe outdoor automation, which sees an ever greater collaboration between man and machine. Connections are possible even in the open countrysude thanks to automated processes applied to machinery, which become automatically guided in the field of logistics.
Other intelligent connection tools were presented by MTU: Go! Act warns, via smartphone, of the presence of errors in connected systems, allowing to identify and eliminate the fault, while Go! Manage is a platform that connects the customer’s system with the database. These solutions are aimed to ensuring efficient communication between MTU partners, distributors and Customer Assistance Center, with security and data protection as key priorities.
Innovations have also been presented in fleet management, as weel as individual machines. The Mercedes service Pro Connect allowed to connect vehicles and people in a smart way, increasing efficiency and productivity. Vehicle data are always available to facilitate fleet programmation and to optimize the planning of any maintenance interventions. Amman offer was very interesting too, with the telematic system ServiceLink that allows companies to have a total control of machinery and fleet data, also applicable to existing machinery. Vehicles owners can access to key informations like battery status and maintenance details online or by the app.
For remote maintenance, Trimble’s Software WorksManager is a unique, powerful cloud-based application that enables contractors to manage data and technology resources on civil worksites, increasing efficiency and improving productivity. It includes the possibility to insert data like 3D drawings in wireless modality directly from the building site, while a control panel show a data and resources overview to managers in real time. This software allow a real connection between digital world and physical world, allowing the prevent of expensive errors.
Finally, it’s impossible not to mention Caterpillar, not so much for the pavilion almost entirely dedicated to the brand’s most innovative products, as for the installation by its foundation.
The Caterpillar Foundation, with the Together.Stronger. platform, ha created a network of non-profit organizations, governments, citizens and business united in fighting poverty, staging a Water Walk in this edition of Bauma. This installation consisted in letting the partecipants feel like walking with cans full of water, reproducing only a fraction of the way women and children take every day. The tanks weighed from 0 to 20 kg and each finished route represented a donation of 5 euros to the foundation.
BAUMA 2019 brought with it an important glow of innovation in the industrial world, in which the connection and collaboration between man and machine seems to be keys to the evolution of the product process.