PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2021

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW PETplanet Insider Vol. 22 No. 04/21 www.petpla.net 29 Instead of 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 13,000bph for bottles and jer- rycans of a capacity of up to 10l for any type of application reaching outputs of 5,000 containers/hour. But, beyond improvements and additional developments on the equip- ment, 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 tech- nologies 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 collabo- rative dynamic that takes into account our know-how on blowmoulding tech- nology, a focus on technical feasibility and cycle optimisation, guaranteeing the manufacturability of the container. Helping customers to position them- selves in the market, defining the packaging together and accompany- ing 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 proac- tive service that improves the perfor- mance 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 commu- nication 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 chan- nels 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, analys- ing the main reasons for inefficiencies due to various external factors and applying the necessary recommenda- tions and correctives actions, the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) of the line was increased to 96% on aver- age, having increased also the machine capacity by 19%. www.urola.com • Food grade • Superclean • High iV Closing the PET loop Upcycle post-consumer bottle and tray flakes with Starlinger viscotec rPET solutions viscotec.at foodgrade without compromise