umati has new partner DATRON AG

DATRON AG is now part of the umati community

What expect­a­tions do you have of umati, what do you expect from the partnership?

We expect the part­ner­ship with umati to res­ult in seam­less, stand­ard­ised com­mu­nic­a­tion between our DATRON CNC machines and our cus­tom­ers’ IT envir­on­ments. The uni­ver­sal machine inter­face from umati makes it pos­sible to bet­ter integ­rate our machines into mod­ern pro­duc­tion envir­on­ments and sig­ni­fic­antly sim­pli­fies data exchange. This enables us to increase effi­ciency in man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions, reduce machine down­times and offer our cus­tom­ers bet­ter, end-to-end net­work­ing. We also see a fur­ther increase in the inter­op­er­ab­il­ity of our machines with those of oth­er man­u­fac­tur­ers and thus an import­ant step towards Industry 4.0.

What advant­ages does umati offer your com­pany and your customers?

umati offers us as a machine man­u­fac­turer the oppor­tun­ity to sim­pli­fy the integ­ra­tion of our machines into com­plex pro­duc­tion envir­on­ments by provid­ing a stand­ard­ised pro­tocol. This allows our cus­tom­ers to eas­ily integ­rate machines from a wide range of man­u­fac­tur­ers, which increases flex­ib­il­ity and pro­ductiv­ity. For our cus­tom­ers, umati offers clear advant­ages in the net­work­ing and auto­ma­tion of pro­duc­tion pro­cesses. umati reduces the hurdles in the imple­ment­a­tion and util­isa­tion of smart fact­ory solu­tions and thus ensures great­er effi­ciency and transparency.

How do you eval­u­ate the expan­sion of the umati ini­ti­at­ive to the entire mech­an­ic­al engin­eer­ing industry?

We see the expan­sion of the umati ini­ti­at­ive to the entire mech­an­ic­al engin­eer­ing sec­tor as an extremely pos­it­ive and neces­sary step towards pro­mot­ing inter­op­er­ab­il­ity, redu­cing integ­ra­tion costs and accel­er­at­ing digit­al­isa­tion in mech­an­ic­al engin­eer­ing. For the machine tool industry, this is an import­ant devel­op­ment for a future-proof industry.

About DATRON

DATRON AG devel­ops, pro­duces and sells milling machines that are designed in par­tic­u­lar for the high-per­form­ance machin­ing of alu­mini­um and com­pos­ite mater­i­als. The port­fo­lio is com­ple­men­ted by milling tools and dis­pens­ing machines for indus­tri­al seal­ing and bond­ing applic­a­tions. Through the use of mod­ern tech­no­lo­gies, pro­tec­ted by numer­ous pat­ents, and in con­junc­tion with a com­pre­hens­ive cus­tom­er care ser­vice pack­age, DATRON offers ‘Made in Ger­many’ solu­tions for cus­tom­ers worldwide.
The com­pany’s milling and dis­pens­ing solu­tions impress with their energy effi­ciency, qual­ity and cost-effect­ive­ness and are used in vari­ous indus­tries, includ­ing the elec­tric­al engin­eer­ing, met­al, plastics, med­ic­al and auto­mot­ive indus­tries as well as aviation.

Foun­ded in 1969, DATRON employs around 300 people in Mühltal, Darm­stadt, Rein­heim and Linden­fels in south­ern Hesse and main­tains a glob­al sales and ser­vice net­work with sub­si­di­ar­ies in Ger­many, the USA, France, Aus­tria, the Czech Repub­lic (/ Slov­akia) and Singapore.