Smart monitoring tells you when repairs are due
“The whole production runs with our chains, so to speak,” says Irene Christofor-Ziechmann, the marketing director of the Munich company. Almost every chain is custom-made – depending on what it has to do. “After all, there are special hygiene requirements for the machines that produce food,” she explains. The chains must therefore be easy to clean – and withstand a lot. For example, tolerating flour dust, resisting liquids, being heat-resistant, being able to achieve high cycle rates. “Our chains are so robust that they can run for several years without any problems.”
In order to have an even better view of maintenance and wear, iwis introduced the intelligent chain monitoring system CCM (Chain Condition Monitoring) a few years ago. Sensors constantly check the condition of the chain and automatically signal when parts are wearing out. In this way, factories can plan repairs better without causing major downtimes and downtimes – and the pasta safely reaches the supermarket shelf.
By the way: Anyone who cooks a delicious sauce with their spaghetti and uses tomato paste from the tube for it: iwis was also at work. Because there are extra chain attachments for transporting tubes in the factory.
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