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For 101 years, machine manufacturer Optima Packaging has been helping customers find the right solution for their products. In the latest podcast from packaging journal and interpack, Managing Director Dr Stefan König and Michael Weber, Customer Service Director, give us an insight into the current requirements for machines and what has changed over the last 100 years.
Episode 5: "Mechanical engineering is anything but boring"
In addition to machines, Optima's portfolio now also includes many other services. In dynamic times, the specialists provide their customers with flexibility and adaptability. Digitalisation and Industry 4.0 play a particularly important role here, as Michael Weber knows:
Where we used to build machines and supply spare parts as part of our service - that was the old world, that has now changed. Today's customers are „do-it-with-me customers“ or even „do-it-for-me customers“. This means that service is becoming extremely important. And that's where we also need digitalisation.
Optima therefore supports customers with services throughout the life cycle and therefore remains close to the changing challenges facing companies today. Increasing flexibility requirements are also placing new demands on machines.
Companies are saying ‚We need the next leap in machine concepts‘ with which they will then be able to fulfil the flexibility requirements. And this includes a lot of robotics, many new transport systems, format-free machines, retooling at the touch of a button - in other words, everything that is part of these future concepts. So mechanical engineering is anything but boring at the moment.
packaging people, the podcast from packaging journal and interpack will be published from August onwards once a month. It can be accessed via all known podcast portals, such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer or Google Podcasts and subscribed to. It is also available on the online pages of packaging journal and interpack.