ipcm® n. 50 - March/April 2018

Opening photo: Advanced nozzle technology enables Encore HD guns to achieve first transfer eﬃciency and consistent film build.

INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE

Ready for “Industry 4.0” and The Smart Factory with Nordson Dense Phase Technology Corinna Hellwig Nordson Industrial Coatings Systems

ics.eu@nordson.com

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ndustry 4.0” develops solutions that use proven mass

coating operations. With its HDLV pumps, Nordson’s highly efficient

production methods to manufacture customized products

dense phase technology is available from manual application to fully

– in extreme cases with a batch size of 1. In that context,

automated, robot-controlled coating systems: a perfect example of

personal color selection is playing an increasingly important role

pioneering coating technology that combines maximum productivity

in many markets – and also posing new challenges for powder

and flexibility with optimum profitability.

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ipcm® n. 50 - March/April 2018

Published on Mar 30, 2018

ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine

We are living in the era of mass customisation, a very strong trend facilitated by the logics of the fourth industrial revolution. However, a new era is already on the horizon, that of “market of one”. Although the two terms are often used as synonyms, there is a profound difference between “customisation” and “individualisation”, at least in the framework of industrial production. In this issue of ipcm®, a special edition for the PaintExpo 2018 trade fair, we will see just how companies are gradually transforming their production structure to meet the “market of one” needs and produce single-product batches, and how digital innovation is helping them.