Vimana Expands European Footprint

The European Platform Industrie 4.0 program promotes digitization of industrial manufacturing via financial assistance for companies purchasing smart machinery. R. F. Celada (Cologno Monzese, Italy) has now partnered with VIMANA (Berkeley, CA) to resell VIMANA advanced manufacturing analytics software and provide users with a turnkey Industry 4.0 solution. As a leader in the sale and service of machine tools, Celada now combines VIMANA software as an easy-to-implement manufacturing analytics platform with machine tool technology for a robust and complete Industrie 4.0 system. This combination helps manufacturers improve productivity and performance of their manufacturing assets with data-driven insight that can optimize machine capacity, improve machine reliability, increase workforce productivity and improve manufacturing processes.

“When we came across William Sobel, the founder of VIMANA and author of the MTConnect standard, we knew we had found the leading solution,” said Paolo Capelli, a product manager at Celada. “Who better to work on connected machines? We had already benefited from using MTConnect over all of the machine tool brands we are distributing. VIMANA transforms the data being collected and provides an accurate understanding of machine tool performance by powering visualizations of factory floor assets. Users can apply the data to gain insights to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), more effectively schedule planned downtime, improve quality, and optimize machine maintenance.”

“We are excited to be working with this leading distributor of machine tools to broaden our reach in Europe to small and medium size manufacturing companies,” added Rick Moran, the president and chief executive officer of VIMANA. “Together, we can bring value to manufacturers and ignite their Industrie 4.0 initiatives.”

govimana.com