aerospace meets demand
Not only on the ground but in the air as well, Italian solution providers are helping to keep the skies safer.
Aerospace Manufacturers
Race to Meet Demand
H
ow do you satisfy the insatiable demands of the North American aerospace market? Vladi Parpajo, President & CEO of the Parpas Group SpA (Padova, Italy; www. gruppoparpas.com) wryly answers: “That’s easy: Faster, better, cheaper.” It’s a theme you’ll hear from all the Italian machine tool builders. But you’ll also hear a lot of interesting details that go into actually delivering on those three promises. For example, Parapajo points to increased automation and the “evolution of intelligent monitoring <that> allow the development of autonomous decision-making processes, faster and more efficient.”
Automating and integrating to maximize productivity Alfredo Mariotti, General Manager of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE - the Italian Machine Tool, Robotics, Automation
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Systems and Ancillary Products Manufacturers’ Association (www.ucimu.it/en/home), also thinks “cyber physical systems able to take ‘decentralized decisions’ on their own and to perform their tasks as autonomously as possible” are a key factor in competitiveness. He adds that member companies (which include Parpas) are implementing other Industry 4.0 concepts, like “information transparency, in order to create a virtual copy of the physical world through information systems, by enriching digital plant models with data sensors and by aggregating information for solving urgent problems and the ability of cyber physical systems to physically support humans by conducting a range of tasks that are too exhausting, or unsafe for the employees.” He adds that the vast field of ergonomics now embraces solutions from “automation and ICT (information and communications
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