Urola: Increased service portfolio
At NPE, Spanish blow moulding specialist Urola would have presented its increased range of services; Urola Performance, Urola Design and Urola Teleservice.
Urola Solutions offers a variety of 100% electric and compact linear PET stretch blow moulding machines for medium production needs. The machine range, all under the name of URBI, goes from 2 to 8 cavities and it has a capacity to produce from 2,000 up to 13,000 bph for bottles and jerrycans of a capacity of up to 10 l for any type of application reaching outputs of 5,000 containers/hour. But, beyond improvements and additional developments on the equipment, for several years now, Urola has increased its service portfolio with the aim of offering a more complete and higher quality service to its customers. These services Urola Performance, Urola Design and Urola Teleservice are the result of combining advanced technologies with a 40-year knowledge and experience in the blowmoulding industry.
Urola Design
Urola Design is an integral service covering the bottle, moulds, process, and industrialisation through a collaborative dynamic that takes into account our know-how on blowmoulding technology, a focus on technical feasibility and cycle optimisation, guaranteeing the manufacturability of the container. Helping customers to position themselves in the market, defining the packaging together and accompanying them in the manufacturing process once the bottle has been prototyped and accepted.
Urola Performance
Urola Performance is a productivity improvement service through a digital platform with which the process and operating data of the plant / line are captured and analysed. This is a proactive service that improves the performance of the customer´s business. A comprehensive service that monitors, analyses and proposes improvement interventions assuring an encrypted communication.
Urola Teleservice
This is a remote assistance service, which gives the possibility of one of Urola´s engineers to assist remotely the machine or the operator. The communication with the operator is based on an AR (Augmented Reality) technology which includes a video camera, drawing tools, a simultaneous translation chat and driving, sharing and tracing tools. It is easily used on a smartphone, tablet or smart glasses. In case of the direct machine assisting option, there is the possibility of accessing any equipment connected to the machine’s network using encrypted communication channels from point to point or VPN. To illustrate the achievements obtained using Urola Performance, a highlight is the case of one of the biggest processors of dairy products in Spain using one of the company’s blowers, URBI-4 series, producing two bottle sizes. By monitoring through the cloud the operation of the line, analysing the main reasons for inefficiencies due to various external factors and applying the necessary recommendations and correctives actions, the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) of the line was increased to 96% on average, having increased also the machine capacity by 19%.
