DIGITAL FACTORY
46 and use the connectivity of digitalisation in order to link up with other systems that can have a massive impact on the productivity of end of line packaging systems ,” he says . “ We ’ re continually innovating all the time and we ’ ve got a lot of stuff going on . Collaboration is probably our biggest way of staying ahead because we ’ ve been guinea pigs - however , I believe we ’ ve now started to become more mainstream .”
In order to establish and maintain success , some companies collaborate with each other for mutual benefit . Through forming a key partnership with Siemens , TrakRap named the automation giants as its Technology Partner , where the collaboration helped to demonstrate the firm ’ s commitment to investing in the latest engineering facilities and technology . “ If we look at some of our partners such as Siemens , we can ’ t afford the level of skills and expertise that Siemens has due to us operating as a SME ,” explains Leeming . “ But they want to work with us because they don ’ t get the interface that we ’ ve got with our customers with an end product . By combining those two , it means that we can keep up to date with the very latest digital technology .”
Having won the FDF innovation award
MARCH 2019