Drachten-based Sparck Technologies builds automated packaging machines that make customised boxes for online retailers. The company focuses on energy-intensive pneumatics at a number of points for its innovative, high-speed machines. This ensures maximum benefit for customers: less air in the box, less cardboard consumption, higher packaging capacity and less dependence on manpower. itsme supplies the Festo standard components for this and also ensures that Sparck-specific pneumatics products are made.

Design and delivery of industrial turnkey projects, automation of operating systems; Mario Claes, owner of Etec Systems in Balen \(Belgium\), has been drawing on a continuously growing source of experience since fourteen years now. Each situation reveals unique challenges. Each solution contributes to an ever expanding range of knowledge

Every single day, both small and medium-sized companies are faced with the challenge of reasserting their position in value chains. They mostly accomplish this through customised solutions, produced by using special machinery. Against this background, it is vital to increase the flexibility and speed of maintenance performance, as demonstrated by a joint project between AL-KO DÄMPFUNGSTECHNIK GMBH and itsme Schultz+Erbse.

When itsme ES Elektro became a logistics integrator for CSi Romania, ensuring a large share of its purchases, it brought about an innovative project in the collaboration between the two entities: EDI connection. Two years down the road, thanks to an EDI connection, CSi already manages to greatly reduce the lead and delivery times, which naturally leads to an increase in the number of orders.

How does an organisation ensure the transition from start-up to scale-up to go smoothly? For fast-growing Kind Technologies the answer partly lay in scalability: not only growing fast, but above all efficiently and smartly. Together with Rittal and itsme they took a closer look at the production process of their enclosures. By partially outsourcing the assembly work, the lead time has been reduced from four weeks to just one week.

Good feedback enhances every result. The same applies to the itsme Group’s new web platform for which customers shared their experiences during the testing phase. One of them is Jurgen Janssens of ECJ Automation from Gierle, Belgium. At the request of itsme Breemes he went through, and tested the platform before it went live. “Functionality comes first. And that has been well thought out with this platform.”

itsme Technical Support is there for all your questions about industrial automation. Product specialists look into the problem along with the customer and share their thoughts with them; be it at the head office in the Netherlands or at the offices abroad. Feel free to call it a challenge in this rapidly changing world to have all the knowledge at the ready, but that’s what it is all about for his team, says itsme’s William van Heel.

Johnson&Johnson puts the environment first in their Healthy Future 2015 program. itsme Lighting Technology supports the realisation of concrete targets in the fields of CO2 redustion, energy saving and personal safety. itsme Lighting Technology developed a lighting plan and set up a demo for both buidling, as well as outdoor lighting.

Imagine how valuable it would be if what you learned fits seamlessly into your every day practice – and when you are able to apply that new knowledge directly to your own projects. At Selo in Hengelo they can tell you all about it.

The meat industry accounts for approximately 2.1% of GDP and is the fourth largest motor driving the Spanish economy. Its strategic position and changing consumer habits mean the industry must carry out digital transformation in order to optimize its production model and respond to current demands for healthier value-added products. In 2017, FIBRAN, with 60 years of experience and manufacturers of innovative collagen casings for sausages and other

The increasing digitization of many manufacturing companies means that the complexity of measurement, control and automation equipment continues to increase. A control concept requested by the customer can quickly exceed the usual routine. The following example shows how, with good teamwork, a conventional metal heat treatment furnace has become a participant in the digital production network.

Why wouldn't you take the step into the unknown? Even if you do not have the required knowledge, there is always a partner who does. At Van Rijnsbergen Elektrotechniek and PureBlue Water, they know what good collaboration leads to. Both companies relied on itsme Industrial Automation, with a successful solution as a result. They are can-do people at Van Rijnsbergen Electrical Engineering in Nieuw-Lekkerland. What do you expect? When you have been working in home and utility construction for years. Then it's a matter of getting on the building site, having things and materials at hand and getting started quickly. How different that is now, with projects in the marine & offshore. It is a completely different world, says work planner Dirk Mets, in which things are very different with strict safety requirements alone. “After all the preparations, it usually takes a day before we can get started.” That delay may be a minor setback, but other than that? Dirk feels at home in marine & offshore, which also applies to his father Theo, owner of Van Rijnsbergen Elektrotechniek. Whereas previously only the Netherlands was their field of work, they now travel all over the world. From Germany to Miami, from Finland to Dubai: Dirk and Theo get around. And that after a question from a customer, who called them in a few years ago for lighting and fire protection on a helideck. “Completely different from what we were used to”, says Theo, “but still nice. Dirk and I like to work abroad, it suits us.” And that residential and commercial construction? “That still remains a part of our company, although it is now mainly the five other ,employees who focus on it.”

Get to know AASYS. An industrial automation supplier from Hoogstraten, Belgium, with a wide range of services. Extensive knowledge has taken the company far, and furthermore the basic conditions for success are in order. Because, the guaranteed delivery times of components and the associated advice? These are also met thanks to a strong collaboration with Breemes.

A few years ago, CSi decided to make the switch to stockless production in order to increase its Return on Investment. CSi can realise this with the help of the Integrated Logistic Supplier project, which consists of four focus areas: appoint a Key Supplier, apply product alignment, automate data traffic and set up a VMI system.

Verstegen has laid down its sustainability goals in the Sustainable Values. The goal is for all internal processes to be CO2 neutral by 2020. Verstegen starts with matters such as the use of second-hand office furniture and reusing office materials for example. Circular purchasing on a technical level has proven to be more challenging than expected..

Heliox designs and produces innovative charging systems for electrical city buses. The company has experienced tremendous growth in the past two years. The production of the battery systems must therefore be scaled up and optimised. Heliox wants to meet customer demand, save time and costs and keep room for new innovations. They ask itsme for help.

Starting Postition Too much movement of roof tiles during the production process leads to breakage The air cylinder in the machine appears not to be functioning properly Settings of machine are not secured with data

Belgium-based DSG is considered an all-round service provider in industrial electricity. The company offers tailored services to its customers, while relying on the availability and timely delivery of parts to meet this objective. Difficult? Not if you keep focusing on your strengths and outsource the search for products in the long tail to a partner like Breemes. The result is a considerable time gain.

Starting Point Requirement for equal service– and knowledge level Necessity to acquire Local Excellence in Romania Bureaucratic and linguistic obstacles

Emerson is a technology and engineering company that creates innovative solutions for its customers, with a major impact on critical areas of life such as fighting food waste, housing comfort, IIoT Industrial Internet of Things, renewable energy and efficient use of natural resources.

The Romanian E-Commerce industry has been growing at a very fast rate in recent years. According to a report made by the GPEC organisation, an organisation that specialises in E-Commerce events and Online Marketing, the value of online shopping in Romania increased by around 30% in 2018 compared to the previous year, reaching the threshold of €3.5 billion.

We automate your success, that is the slogan of Manders Automation. And that is exactly what the specialist builder from Venray does. The company makes unique installations as a solution for specific applications at the customer. It is almost a specialty in itself, that special construction. Also supported by a long-standing cooperation with itsme.

Every buyer knows the problem: In order to keep internal efforts in the procurement area under control, various options such as the standardisation of products, manufacturers, and ultimately suppliers are available. However, if the component selection is too severely reduced the specialist departments complain. The special machine builder ruhlamat has therefore, in partnership with itsme, decided to go their own way.

Countless meters of cultivation gutters. Formed from strip steel and made directly on location. Growers in Ethiopia have to wait a while, but then a special custom machine comes their way. Cornelis Verhoeven from Dutch Machine Factory came up with and created ‘m. And relied on cooperation with itsme for the bearings and drives.

Welcome to Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate’s spare parts warehouse in Deventer. Once a squash centre but now a place where countless items are kept in stock in a well-organised manner. itsme helped with the layout and setup so everything is ready when necessary. The impact of a malfunction is increasingly smaller while the degree of certainty and peace of mind is growing.