Jan Jenke

Zoom into the WAGO Plant & Partner Ecosystem Enables Predictive Maintenance of a Material Distribution System

We encounter plastics everywhere in life. How exactly their production takes place, few people know. This takes place in the so-called plastic injection molding process. In this process, molten plastic is injected into a molding cavity of a mold, compacted under pressure and then ejected as a molded part. This podcast episode is about a material distribution system at WAGO, where this process has been optimized using IoT and the filters are serviced at the ideal time – error cases are detected, scrap is reduced and unplanned downtime is avoided. Because: In the manufacturing process itself and in the upstream and downstream process, there are often errors in the plant that lead to downtimes and at the same time an enormous potential in maintenance and cleaning processes. To understand this in more detail, in episode 83 we go to a WAGO plant – which manufactures components for electrical connection technology as well as electronic components for automation technology – and take a look at what use cases exist here and what added value the data provides. For this, we have two experts with us who know the use cases inside out and have also built up the associated ecosystem in order to implement solutions– Jan Jenke (Product Manager / Project Manager Analytics) and Jürgen Pfeifer (IoT & Cloud Partner Manager).