For Bottero and Tiama, the new joint venture is the next step in the two companies' strategic plan and an ideal combination of Bottero's process knowledge and Tiama's sensor expertise. All Glassform.ai solutions are designed and developed to be universal and open to all IS machines and sensors on the market.
What is the new company all about?
Today's glass market is increasingly driven by the need for higher production efficiency, lower environmental impact and higher overall safety for operators. In this scenario, know-how is becoming a challenge, as the industry is increasingly losing experienced employees, while new technologies require the development of specific skills.
Bottero and Tiama are convinced that automation based on data processing is the key to meeting these new requirements. In this new, very demanding context, Glassform.ai is intended to:
· provide solutions for the automatic control of the forming process according to production objectives
· optimise energy consumption and the resources used
· minimise machine set-up times via automatic controls
· compensate for the loss of process know-how through the use of artificial intelligence.
The solutions offered by Glassform.ai can be used universally and are open to all common IS machines and sensors.
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Why has Bottero invested in the new Glassform.ai
"Automation is paramount in the glass processing industry today, and Bottero's products have always led the way with innovative solutions that use machine learning and artificial intelligence," says Marco Tecchio, CEO of Bottero and Glassform.ai. "Our joint venture with Tiama is our next strategic step to fully automate glass processing operations. Thanks to Tiama's leading role in inspection and quality control systems and our deep knowledge with IS machines and in glass processing, Glassform.ai will become a leading player in our industry to provide the best solutions for our customers."
What will be the next steps?
The starting point of Glassform.ai's development portfolio will be already available products and solutions where cutting-edge technologies (i.e. Big Data and machine learning) have been successfully implemented, leveraging the results achieved in other industry segments. Examples of the first solutions that will soon be available are the automatic management of gob forming operations and the integration of cold/hot end data to optimally manage process stability and accuracy.
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About Glassform.ai
Glassform.ai offers a fully functional open protocol digital platform that will help improve productivity. It draws on the expertise and experience of two market leaders: Bottero and Tiama, both of which have extensive know-how in process automation and AI.
