Your step-by-step transition to a data and AI-driven
Glass Factory
Clofel empowers glass manufacturers to transform into digital powerhouses, optimizing Pack-to-Melt, boosting worker productivity, and minimizing setup times, errors, and waste.
Challenges we faced
The challenges of glass production
Even as the most mechanized production lines globally, glass factories grapple with significant operational limitations.
- Complex Setup Processes
- Each setup in glass production is unique, demanding numerous adjustments for new products. This lack of standardization, due to reliance on analog methods, escalates costs and risks.
- Sustainability Concerns
- Inefficiency leads to wasted resources, time, scrap, and excessive energy consumption, driving up costs and hindering sustainability efforts.
- Diverse Systems and Equipment
- Data collection is challenging in environments with varied glass manufacturing software and equipment. Yet, gathering structured data over time is key to optimizing any glass factory.
- Reliance on Experienced Workers
- The specialized glass industry increasingly needs to rely on historical data and systematically define SOPs, especially amid a growing skills gap.
Your journey toa digital glassfactory
Clofel guides you step-by-step toward flexible and efficient digital manufacturing
IT/OT Connectors
We support a wide range of OT connectors (Bucher Emhart, Futronic, Tiama, Symplex, etc.) and IT connectors (SAP, Microsoft, IQ Scan, Vertech, etc.). This ensures seamless integration with your existing infrastructure and allows for efficient data collection and analysis across your entire operation.
Hot End Dashboard
A live Hot End dashboard displays relevant data points from the line, along with AI-enhanced KPIs like Efficiency, Pack-to-Melt, and Pack-to-Cut. This real-time visibility empowers operators to monitor production, identify bottlenecks, and optimize processes on the fly.
Cold End Dashboard
The Cold End dashboard mirrors the Hot End's functionality, providing essential data and AI-driven KPIs. It enables continuous monitoring of product quality and packaging, ensuring adherence to standards and customer expectations.
Management Dashboard
Located in the control room and offices, this dashboard offers a furnace overview and a detailed line overview with KPIs. This view empowers managers to make strategic decisions based on comprehensive performance data.
Mobile Setup Assistance
A mobile app aids machine operators with live information, historical data comparison, and delta highlighting to reduce setup errors. This intuitive tool streamlines setup processes, reducing downtime and ensuring consistent production quality.
AI-Powered Solutions
Leveraging collected data, we create AI applications like 'smart order clustering,' 'efficiency prediction,' 'swabbing analysis,' and more. These advanced analytics tools unlock the hidden potential within your data, providing valuable insights for optimization and innovation.
Production improvement
How Clofel improves your operations
Basic end-to-end transparency, AI-based assistance and other measures increase productivity, reduce error rates and scrap – among other improvements…
+0.5%
Pack-To-Melt
+2%
Effiency
-20%
Set up times
+5%
Energy efficiency
"The Clofel solution increases the efficiency of our production lines and enables fast reactions in the process based on live data end-to-end!"
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