Industrie 4.

0 -
from vision to reality

Michael Przytulla - VDMA e.V.

Food Processing Machinery and
Packaging Machinery
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AHK Columbia – Forum Meat Industry 4.0

September 8, 2021

VDMA
 About me: Michael Przytulla, Dipl. Ing.
Study of Food Technology / Meat Technology
Since 2017: VDMA e.V. – Advisor for Industrie 4.0

15 years in food machinery sales:

SEA Sales of Confectionery Machines, based in Malaysia (4y)
Sales Director End-of-line Packaging (case packer, palletizer)
Sales of Meat Processing Equipment in
Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia

michael.przytulla@vdma.org
Senior Meat Technologist (Nestlé R&D), in Sweden + Denmark (5y)
Ass. Technical Manager in a German meat processing factory
Butcher education in my family‘s butcher shop

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 VDMA e.V. – Mechanical Engineering Industry Association

The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association

(VDMA e.V.) represents around 3,300 member
companies in the SME-dominated mechanical and
systems engineering industry in Germany and
Europe.
VDMA e.V. was founded in November 1892 and is
the most important voice for the mechanical
engineering industry today.
It represents the issues of the mechanical and
plant engineering sector in Germany and Europe.
VDMA

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VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association

The Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association

is one of the largest of 38 industry-specific associations
within VDMA e.V.:
>300 member companies manufacture machines for:
- bakery
- meat processing
- beverage production and dairy technology
- confectionery
- vegetable raw material processing
- packaging
- production of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products

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 Industry 4.0 in the food industry

Technologies such as cloud computing,

cognitive computing, virtual reality and the
Internet of Things are gradually closing the
gap between digital and physical areas
and processes.
For the food industry, too, this means that the
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way products are sold, packaged and

manufactured will change, as will the way
raw materials are produced in the agricultural
sector.

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 Why Digitalization?

» reducing production costs

» reducing maintenance and repair costs

» meeting customer requirements for

individualized products (lot-size-one)

» ensuring continued high product

quality

» increasing availability of value-adding

processes and equipment

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 The Predictive Maintenance study from
VDMA and Roland Berger was
presented on the Hannover fair 2017.

33%
greater
machine
availability

79%
performance

Predictive Maintenance gains

https://www.vdma.org/en/v2viewer/-/v2article/render/17179971

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 What is your i4.0-status ?

https://www.industrie40-readiness.de/?lang=en

https://industrie40.vdma.org/documents/4214230/5356229/VDMA+Guideline+Industrie+40.pdf/cd1e8ef
0-626e-432d-a2da-5c7a990b1a9b

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 WS Food - Weihenstephan Standard for
production data acquisition in machines
of the food industry
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Communication
Drinks / OEE

https://www.weihenstephan-standards.com/ws-domains/ws-food/

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 WS Food - Weihenstephan Standard for
production data acquisition in machines
of the food industry
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Communication
Drinks / OEE

https://www.weihenstephan-standards.com/technical-
information/communication-interface/ws-protocol/
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 WS Food - Weihenstephan Standard for
production data acquisition in machines
of the food industry
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Communication
Drinks / OEE

https://www.weihenstephan-standards.com/about/

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 Self-learning assistance systems

SAM learns to recognize fault

conditions and automatically presents
suitable suggestions from its
knowledge database.
By providing targeted support for machine
operators, faults can be permanently
rectified. The number of rejects, the
operating time, and the manpower
requirements can be reduced by our
assistance system with a simultaneous
increase in production capacity.
The production efficiency is higher.

https://www.ivv.fraunhofer.de/en/processing-machinery/assistance-systems.html

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 COVR - being safe around collaborative and versatile
robots in shared spaces

Quelle: https://www.safearoundrobots.com/toolkit/documentfinder

COVR has received funding from the The EU-funded project “Being safe around collaborative and versatile robots
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant in shared spaces” (COVR) aims to systematically break down current barriers
agreement No 779966. to support more widespread use of collaborative robots in a wide range of
Project start and end dates: January industries and domains. Our particular focus in the project is on
2018 – December 2021 manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, healthcare and rehabilitation.
Project coordinator: Danish Technological
Institute
https://www.iff.fraunhofer.de/en/business-units/robotic-systems/covr.html

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 Requirements for technology and engineering –
human-machine interaction / robotic systems

Number of companies asked

https://www.dlg.org/fileadmin/downloads/lebensmittel/themen/publikationen/trendmonitor/DLG_Trendmonitor_Robotik_2020_IT.pdf

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 Requirements for technology and engineering –
human-machine interaction / robotic systems
Supplying industries (flavours, additives, ingredients) not using robots
Dough, pasta
using robots Quality of gripper
Sweets
Investment too high
Snacks
fruits, vegetables, potatoes Missing robot varieties
Nutrients Not economic enough
Cereals Integration problems in existing
milk, milk products, cheese lines/infrastructure
spices, sauces Hygienic problems
meat, sausage, poultry Space
fish, fine foods
Missing experience
fats, oil
ready meals, frozen foods, convenience Missing integration competence
baked products Missing human resources
alcoholic drinks Number of companies asked
non-alcoholic drinks
Number of companies asked Reasons for not using robots

Robot use in different sectors

Unknown
Combined robots
Autonomous robots (AMR)
Scara-Robots (horizontal articulated arm robots)
Portal robots
Cobot
„knickarm robot“
Delta robot (parallel)
Number of companies asked

https://www.dlg.org/fileadmin/downloads/lebensmittel/themen/publikationen/trendmonitor/DLG_Trendmonitor_Robotik_2020_IT.pdf Type of robots used

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 Requirements for technology and engineering –
human-machine interaction / robotic systems

https://www.dlg.org/fileadmin/downloads/lebensmittel/themen/publikationen/trendmonitor/DLG_Trendmonitor_Robotik_2020_IT.pdf

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 Requirements for technology and engineering –
human-machine interaction / robotic systems
In which areas do you use robots?
Unpacking
De-palletitzing
Labelling
Transport
Closing
Storage
Re-packing
Palletizing
Primary packing
Commissioning
Number of companies asked Number of companies asked

Tasks of robots in logistics Tasks of robots in packaging

Dosing Consumer (Catering)

Positioning Cleaning
Preparation Number of companies asked

Forming Task of robots in other areas

Assembly
Separation
Sorting
Control/Check
Number of companies asked

Tasks of robots in production / processing

https://www.dlg.org/fileadmin/downloads/lebensmittel/themen/publikationen/trendmonitor/DLG_Trendmonitor_Robotik_2020_IT.pdf

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 Sustainable production: actively shaping the ecological
transformation with Industrie 4.0

If there is comprehensive distribution and

use of these technologies, which are
already economically viable today, this
would result in a 37% reduction in global
greenhouse gas emissions.

This will also bring dividends for

companies: The market potential of
decarbonisation by 2050 is worth more
than 300 billion euros per year

https://www.plattform-i40.de/PI40/Redaktion/EN/Downloads/Publikation/sustainable-production.html
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 https://www.th-owl.de/en/smartfoodtechnologyowl/

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 Companies for Software-/ERP-Systems
This is just an example listing, not a VDMA-recommendation:

WinWeb
https://www.winweb.de/index.php/en-US/module/schlachtung

SLA
https://sla.de/produkte/device-connect

CSB Systems
https://www.csb.com/en/industries/meat/meat-production

SysPro
https://www.sys-pro.de/en/branch-competence/food/meat-and-sausage-production

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 VDMA- Industrie 4.0

Find all relevant i4.0-information at our

VDMA Forum Industrie 4.0
- Guideline Industrie 4.0
- Readiness Study
- OPC UA Communication
- Industrial Security
- Sensors for Industrie 4.0
- Lean Management
- …

https://www.vdma.org/digitalisierung-industrie-40

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 Thank you
Thank you
for your attention!
Michael Przytulla
VDMA e.V.
Quelle: shutterstock_116283283_Peshkova

Nahrungsmittelmaschinen und Verpackungsmaschinen

Lyoner Str. 18
60528 Frankfurt am Main / Germany

Telefon +49 69 6603 1178

E-Mail michael.przytulla@vdma.org

https://www.vdma.org/nahrungsmittelmaschinen-verpackungsmaschinen

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