umati has new partner KEBA Industrial Automation

KEBA Indus­tri­al Auto­ma­tion is now part of the umati community

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

Espe­cially with the focus on I4.0 or smart pro­duc­tion, the exchange of data between machines and plants via stand­ard­ized cross-man­u­fac­turer inter­faces is abso­lutely neces­sary. Through the umati part­ner­ship we become part of a net­work of experts and can thus fol­low and help shape the devel­op­ment of fur­ther standards.

What advant­ages does umati offer your com­pany and your customers?

We value both: the exchange of exper­i­ence with experts as well as an expan­ded net­work in which we can present our know-how and technologies.

Our cus­tom­ers bene­fit from the simple stand­ard­ized integ­ra­tion of KEBA com­pon­ents into exist­ing sys­tems — plug & play!

How do you assess the expan­sion of the umati ini­ti­at­ive to the entire mech­an­ic­al engin­eer­ing sector?

Com­mu­nic­a­tion between machines but also with high­er-level net­works is becom­ing increas­ingly import­ant for the real­iz­a­tion of highly flex­ible pro­duc­tion sys­tems. In addi­tion, there are AI-sup­por­ted applic­a­tions in the area of pre­dict­ive main­ten­ance or orches­tra­tion, i.e. the dis­tri­bu­tion of tasks to machines with the skills required for pro­duc­tion. These applic­a­tions can hardly be real­ized without stand­ard­ized, cross-man­u­fac­turer data exchange. Stand­ard­iz­a­tion is there­fore the basis for I4.0.

About KEBA Indus­tri­al Automation

KEBA, foun­ded in 1968, with headquar­ters in Linz (Aus­tria) and sub­si­di­ar­ies world­wide, oper­ates in three busi­ness areas: Indus­tri­al Auto­ma­tion, Han­dover Auto­ma­tion and Energy Auto­ma­tion. Con­trols and safety tech­no­logy, drive tech­no­logy for machines and robots, ATMs and par­cel and trans­fer machines, as well as power char­ging sta­tions for e‑cars and heat­ing con­trols are all part of the product port­fo­lio of the auto­ma­tion expert, which employs around 2000 people.

In the area of indus­tri­al auto­ma­tion, in line with the guid­ing prin­ciple “Auto­ma­tion by innov­a­tion”, KEBA devel­ops and pro­duces innov­at­ive and high-qual­ity auto­ma­tion solu­tions for gen­er­al machine and tool con­struc­tion as well as for Int­ra­lo­gist­ics, robot­ics, plastics, wind energy, turbo sys­tems and sheet met­al pro­cessing. Wheth­er hard­ware or soft­ware, indi­vidu­al com­pon­ents or com­plete solu­tions — the Aus­tri­an tech­no­logy expert offers power­ful, mod­u­lar and safe solu­tions for all indus­tri­al requirements.

https://www.keba.com/industrial-automation