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ents to test. We can discuss with internet and we can even carry Let’s speak about being user
them – even directly during social out remote operations regarding friendly – what can you tell me
time. When going somewhere in our homes – burglar alarms, heat- about the operators who use these
our region, it’s almost sure that ing and even washing machines big machines? Do they need any
we will see someone that is also – can all be operated from our specific qualifications?
from the glass industry. smartphones. First and foremost, we work
And now people want to with glassmakers that know what
When and why do you decide to have these possibilities for their they are doing. Our machines are
develop or update a product? machinery in the glass plants too. used by people who are experts
We don’t decide that – we do Obviously not at the same level. in this ‘art’, so they know the
it every day! There is no need Consider for example a plant temperatures that they need to
to make a decision here, as we with 200 or 300 machines – you set and the speed at which the
must do it daily or we could not cannot work from your phone or machine can operate.
continue to work. Personally, I tablet at that level. But interface OK, so machines now can also
started working in the glass indus- is what is important, to have be automatically operated, but it’s
try 20 years ago as an engineer. the most important information not really the way to do things in
People taught me how to do my available when we need it. this industry. Operators of these
job and the things that I had to do And this is the way the world machines need to have the expe-
and I thought that it was the way is and works now – being glob- rience and know-how– features
to work. This was how I and we ally connected 24/7, and get- that a robot still is not able to do
worked for about five years and ting immediate information and right now. O
then things began to change very answers.
quickly – at a speed that is almost So this means that today’s
impossible to keep up with. machines do not only need to
Now we have to continuously work well and be reliable,
change and improve machines, but they also need to be
making this one better than the easy to work with and this
last one, and the next one better is a major challenge for
than this one. This is because peo- machinery manufactur-
ple and glassmakers are not only ers to keep up with these
requesting quality, but they are also needs and demands.
asking for information and also for
interfacing with the machines. And
this means that our machines must
be user-friendly too.
And from now on things will
continue to move along this way.
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