The Minister President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried

The Minister President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried

Press release
Minister President impressed with
Arburg and Industry 4.0 exhibit
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The Minister President of Baden-Württemberg
Winfried Kretschmann visits Arburg at the
Hannover Messe 2017
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Date: 4/5/2017
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Practical example of Industry 4.0: Individualised
"smart" luggage tags produced in the smart
factory
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Arburg: Innovative family-owned company from
Baden-Württemberg
Lossburg. On Wednesday 26 April 2017, the Minister
President of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried
Kretschmann, visited Arburg at the Hannover Messe.
Managing Partner Juliane Hehl and Gerhard Böhm,
Managing Director Sales, extended a warm welcome
to their esteemed guest. They offered him a brief
introduction to the family-owned company as well as
the Industry 4.0 exhibit and presented him with an
individualised "smart" luggage tag.
"As a medium-sized family-run company that develops
and produces its machine technology and solutions for
plastics processing exclusively in Baden-Württemberg, we
were pleased to have the opportunity to present our
innovations in the area of Industry 4.0 to Minister
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President Winfried Kretschmann," emphasised Arburg's
Managing Partner, Juliane Hehl. Together with Gerhard
Böhm, Managing Director Sales, she demonstrated how
"smart" luggage tags can be produced in a smart factory
following the principle of spatially distributed production on
the company's exhibition stand in Hanover. The Minister
President was enthusiastic about the practical example of
Industry 4.0 and was eventually presented with his own
personalised luggage tag.
Industry 4.0 in practice
With more than three decades of experience in digitally
integrated machines including peripheral equipment,
Arburg is the industry leader in the field of Industry 4.0. At
the "Digital Factory" trade show within the Hannover
Messe 2017, the stand was designated as a
"Highlight@Industrial Supply". Visitors were also given the
opportunity to find out more about Industry 4.0 in plastic
parts production through numerous guided tours.
The small trade fair production facility on the Arburg stand,
as well as the associated "webshop" on the stand of
partner Pöppelmann, showed important elements of
Industry 4.0: sequential manufacturing at spatially
distributed locations, "'mass customisation" – in other
words the customer-specific individualisation of highvolume parts through the combination of injection
moulding and additive manufacturing - as well as the endto-end traceability of each individual part. Injection
moulding, industrial additive manufacturing and
automation are combined for the flexibly automated, costefficient production of individualised luggage tags and the
process data is recorded using the ARBURG host
computer system (ALS).
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Arburg named among the top 50 most innovative
medium-sized companies
In 2016, Arburg was ranked among the top 50 most
innovative medium-sized companies as the best machine
manufacturer. "Wirtschaftswoche" magazine arranged for
3,500 medium-sized German companies to be analysed
for this purpose. In the overall ranking, Arburg finished
eighth with an innovation score of 181 out of a maximum
200 possible points behind companies like Rimowa
(wheeled suitcases), Leica (cameras) and Lamy (writing
implements). Arburg is well-known to the plastics industry
as a manufacturer of high-end technology. Allrounder
injection moulding machines, the Freeformer for industrial
additive manufacturing, robotic systems and modern
Industry 4.0 solutions are developed at the company
headquarters and the central production site in Lossburg
on a total of 171,000 square metres.
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Photo
ARBURG_124299 Besuch Kretschmann HM 2017.jpg
Baden-Württemberg's Minister President, Winfried
Kretschmann (centre) was welcomed to the Arburg stand
at the Hannover Messe on 26 April 2017 by Juliane Hehl,
Managing Partner, and Gerhard Böhm, Managing Director
Sales. He was presented with an individualised "smart"
luggage tag as a souvenir.
Photo: ARBURG
About Arburg
A German family-owned company, Arburg is one of the leading global manufacturers of
plastic processing machines. The product portfolio encompasses Allrounder injection
moulding machines with clamping forces of between 125 and 6,500 kN, the Freeformer
for industrial additive manufacturing and robotic systems, customer and industryspecific turnkey solutions and further peripheral equipment.
The company places the topic of production efficiency at the centre of all its activities,
taking into account the entire value-added chain. The objective is to enable Arburg
customers to manufacture their plastic products, whether one-off parts or high-volume
batches, with optimal quality and at minimum unit costs – e.g. for the automotive and
packaging industries, communication and entertainment electronics, medical technology
or the white goods sector.
An international sales and service network ensures first-class customer support at the
local level: Arburg is represented by fully owned organisations at 33 locations in 25
countries and by trading partners in more than 50 countries. The machines are
produced exclusively at the parent company in Lossburg, Germany. Of a total of around
2,700 employees, about 2,200 work in Germany. About 500 further employees work in
Arburg's organisations around the world. In 2012, Arburg became one of the first
companies to gain triple certifications: ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environment) and
ISO 50001 (energy).
Further information about Arburg can be found at www.arburg.com
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