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to recognize the job order “The installation of the
to which that pane belongs Sorting System, support-
and assigns it a unique ID. ed by an automatic glass
The pane, now ‘registered’ sheet recognition system,
without any possibility of changed everything,” says
misunderstanding, is then Nicola. “Before, we had
arrissing, washed, checked to cut and sort the pieces
by a quality control scan- having already in mind the
ner and then arrives at the order with which the in-
Sorting System. Com- sulating glass unit would
posed of three shuttles and have been made. In prac-
a series of vertical storage tice, there had to be a cut-
units, the Sorting System ting/unloading-loading/
already knows the order of processing plan from the
arrival of the pieces, picks very beginning. Today,
them up and places them in all we have to do is to cut
the storage units. Then, fol- the sheets and load them
lowing the production pro- on one of the two lines:
gramme, the system feeds the system does the rest. A
the insulating glass line. radical change. In addition
to having increased pro-
THE MOST RECENT duction speed and safety
INVESTMENTS IN both for operators and for
FOREL TECHNOLOGY the material, the current

Artigianvetro ‘second gen- configuration allows better
eration’ Nicola Marcan- management of the unex-
tonelli literally grew up in pected. If for some reason
the glassworks. We ask him one of the panes of a cer-
what the practical changes tain order is not ready, the
brought by this last invest- Sorting system allows me
ment were. to postpone that order,

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