Smart...and human: 2500 head to SCM central HQ
More than 2,500 visitors from all over Europe, as well as Asia, America and the Middle East flocked to the SCM Technology Center between 31 January and 2 February at the Rimini headquarters, for the “Smart&Human Factory” Open House. A record attendance that confirms the Italian giant as a leader at international level in the technologies sector for the second processing of wood and the furniture industry.
After excellent results in 2018 with the entire Group’s sales figures in excess of 700 million Euro, SCM started 2019 under the aegis of innovation with an event entirely dedicated to the new frontiers in the digital and intelligent factory. A factory at the forefront where SCM state-of-the-art technologies are integrated with anthropomorphous industrial robots, assigned to more strenuous work, collaborative robots that work safely and barrier-free alongside operators, and interconnected by unmanned vehicles with intelligent navi-gation systems.
Inside the SCM Technology Center, set up for the occasion with more than 50 display solutions and those in progress, those attending were launched into the “Smart&Human Factory” that in three days worked on almost a thousand panels to produce four different kinds of furniture in record time.
Attendees included more than a hundred teachers and students from professional training schools for the woodworking sector as well as technical institutes who had come to Rimini from a number of regions in Northern Italy to uncover the secrets of the people-friendly smart factory.
During the three days, an example of the automated system for furniture production was explained at each stage of the process: from furniture production to the generation of machine programs and from panel processing to cabinet assembly.
Considerable focus was placed on the new morbidelli x200 and x400 nesting range, previewed on this occasion and designed to apply the best features of the “All-in-one” technology of the machining centres for the 5-axis panel, even to this kind of processing. Edgebanding, drilling/insertion, surface treatments were amongst many other processes featured.
With sales figures in excess of 700 million Euro and with 4,000 employees, the SCM Group is a world leader in technologies for processing a vast range of materials: wood, plastic, glass, stone, metal, composite materials and industrial components. The group's companies are trustworthy partners of established industries around the world operating in a variety of commodity related sectors: from the furniture industry to building, from cars to aerospace, from the nautical industry to processing plastics.
The SCM Group coordinates, supports and develops a system of industrial excellencies, structured into 3 highly specialised large production poles in Italy with a direct presence on all five continents.
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