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CASE STUDIES
Case studies

HEYE

Smart Plant strategy for sustainable

and efficient glassmaking

ased at Obernkirchen, end and service requirements jars. “This major furnace repair is
Germany, Heye International respectively. an important step towards future
BGmbH is one of the inter- and secures production success
national glass container industry’s COLD-END INSPECTION FOR for the next two decades,” says
foremost suppliers of produc- ARDAGH Plant Manager Hartmut Treichel.
tion technology, high perfor- Industry 4.0 technology is The implemented closed-loop
mance equipment and produc- entering Ardagh’s production technologies include the latest
tion knowhow. Its mechanical site in Neuenhagen: After the Smart Plant features, such as
engineering has set industry furnace repair the company now the Heye Process Control, that
standards for more than five runs two Heye 12 Section 5 1/2’’ monitors the pressing processes
decades. Its three sub-brands DG SpeedLines, as well as Heye of all plunger mechanisms of
HiPERFORM, HiSHIELD and inspection equipment at the cold the IS-Machine and enables the
HiTRUST form the Heye Smart end. The two lines started pro- machine operator to recognize
Plant portfolio, address the duction with 750 ml Bordeaux beginning malfunctions at the
glass industry’s hot end, cold bottles and 500 ml wide neck earliest moment.

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