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DIGITALIZATION

ment, 38 countries are
represented with the larg-
est number of processors
being located in the US,
Europe and then followed
by Asia-Pacific.

But what do all these figures
mean in practice?
These processors under-
stand that by connecting
their information, they can
learn and improve their
operating processes. They
know they can fully trust
the data so that everyone
connected benefits. For
them, the more they’re
tapped into the cloud, the
more they can learn about
running their equipment
smarter, finding ways to
raise productivity and dis-
covering ways to improve
their quality. In short,
making better business de-
cisions that lead to greater roadmap is to take artifi- There’s a lot of excite- the processes and explore
profitability. cial intelligence (AI) to the ment around this entire new types of glass for their
For machinery suppliers next level, which means movement right now since markets. We won’t be op-
like Glaston, the informa- enabling tempering and customers can see the real erating without humans
tion gathered helps offer laminating machinery to benefits of AI and also how for many years to come,
new services based on data become fully autonomous. other digitalization tech- if ever. We need people to
analytics. Glaston is currently work- nologies can help them ask the questions – and
We can see, for example, ing intensively on adding reach their own business partner with AI to create
how our machinery is used, machine learning and vi- goals. They can use these the world we’d like to en-
how various glass thick- sion to its technology. technologies for better vision.
nesses are tempered and As part of this, we’ve im- production follow-up, to
laminated – and learn more plemented augmented re- reach higher capacities and
about the types of glass be- ality (AR) and virtual real- to learn ways to improve
ing run and their parame- ity (VR) to help our own their glass quality with
Glaston Finland
ters. This helps us improve people and our customers more intelligence. Glaston Finland
our own service offering to with training and mainte- For operators, too,
support our customers in nance tasks. Our new Sup- digitalization will
reaching higher capacities port Room concept using make their jobs much
and better quality. AR was showcased for the easier and less stress-
first time at glasstec 2018 ful. Still, even with fully y
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