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Opening photo: Geico’s focus on research and innovation has enabled to reduce the energy consumption of a car coating plant from 900 kWh/job to 270 kWh/job 3 years ahead of the initial forecast.
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Smart Paintshop - The Paintshop of the Future Alessia Venturi ipcm®
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mart Paintshop is the project that will revolutionise the car coating concept (ref. opening photo). Presented by Geico in a world premiere at the last Surcar Congress in Cannes, on June 30, it is a new type of system that will bring the car coating process in the Industry 4.0 era. The most significant features of Smart Paintshop include body geolocalisation, safety sensors to prevent malfunctions,
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applied Internet of Things that analyses and improves the paintshop in real time, wearable technology for perfect manmachine interaction, augmented reality, an innovative system for managing energy consumption, and flexibility – all managed in cloud with J-Suite, the “avatar” of the whole plant. This is a total revolution: it impacts efficiency, safety, quality, save costing, and ecofriendliness. Moreover, its concept can be applied to any greenfield or brownfield project.
N. 46 - JULY/AUGUST 2017 - international PAINT&COATING magazine
With the optimisation of man-machine interaction and of production procedures achieved through Smart Paintshop, Geico will also be able to provide a new paintshop in record time, ten to fifteen months for very complex systems. Such goal was really unthinkable only a short while ago.
Smart Paintshop Geico’s new concept is an integrated solution system including six strategic aspects: 1. Smart Design – All Geico’s lean and