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HELLER Press Information

September 2016

AMB 2016

HELLER4Industry - added value for the future

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Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbHMarketingMarcus KurringerGebrüder-Heller-Straße 1572622 NürtingenGermanyPhone: +49 7022 77-5683Fax: +49 7022 [email protected]

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HELLER4Industry – added value for the future

To date, the term Industry 4.0 has been associated with catchwords such as digitisation, network integration or transparency. Mostly, however, the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is looked at from different perspectives. HELLER has been providing high availability and productivity for decades with a broad range of products, comprising 4 and 5 axis machining centres, mill/turning centres and flexible manufacturing systems. The company has now further developed the linkage of industrial production with digitisation and network integration of information and production technologies in terms of its machine tools. Whilst achieving this, efficient and productive manufacturing and the reduction of workpiece costs continue to be in the foreground.

The continual objective in metal-cutting manufacturing is to further increase productivity,

creating added value for the customer. That is the reason for continual new and further

development of machine tools and for complementing them with optional extensions. Currently,

the conventional potentials for productivity increases are thought to have been fully exploited. In

terms of Industry 4.0, HELLER's approach is to enhance transparency of the current machine

status, evaluating the information gained in combination with existing data to allow purposeful

diagnostics. To achieve this, future machine functions will be combined with powerful data

extraction amongst other measures.

Efficient exploitation of optimisation potentials

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During AMB 2016 in Stuttgart, HELLER will be presenting three examples demonstrating the

importance of ease of operation, customised manufacturing of the workpiece and expanded

evaluation of existing sensor data. HELLER4Operation means an easy-to-use, operator-

oriented user interface for HELLER machines. The use of touch controls at the tool/workpiece

loading station enables fast and robust operation. In addition to the familiar Siemens standard

operation, the new main operator panel allows execution of customer-specific programs from

web environments. The 24” touch interface named HELLER Operation Interface can be

upgraded with expansion programs, so-called XTENDS, enhancing performance and

functionality. The first XTENDS will be presented during HELLER WerkTage.

The second area, HELLER4Services, comprises digital services. The HELLER Services

Interface presented at WerkTage focuses on transparency of manufacturing and maintenance

processes. The module forms the basis for evaluations and statistics, thus providing support in

reducing machine downtimes. Additionally, the visualisation of specific information, including

status displays of axes, spindles or other assemblies, enables users to determine wear and to

take preventive measures in order to avoid unscheduled downtimes.

The third area, HELLER4Performance, comprises the machine analysis for process and

performance optimisation, time-synchronous extraction of real-time data into the internet as well

as evaluation and graphical display, e.g. using the SAP-HANA internet platform. Together with

SAP, HELLER will be demonstrating the specific benefits of this online streaming function with

the mapping of a CAD-designed 3-D workpiece in a cloud. This enables precise representation

of the tool (paths including tolerances) in which tool wear is expected. Subsequently, the

workpiece programme is run on the machine. The data generated is directly transferred to the

cloud. This way the paths to be traversed by the machine/tool can be pre-assessed on the basis

of the workpiece design prior to machining to see whether the machine will be able to perform

the operation.

Cloud helps to reduce idle times

The example of tool provisioning shows how further savings can be achieved with

HELLER4Industry by linking the digital and the real world. Usually, tool magazines are loaded in

a way to provide optimal storage capacity. Often, however, the tool access sequence differs

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from the sequence of the machining operations. It means that the distance from the tool to the

spindle has a significant influence on the duration of the tool change. To reduce these idle

times, the stock of workpieces to be optimised can be selected from the pallet management and

be transferred to the cloud along with the details. This way, both the tool change times and the

tool idle times can be analysed and evaluated in view of the sorting order, providing the shortest

idle times for the given workpiece and the machining operation. Subsequently, HELLER

generates the CNC program for re-sorting in the cloud and provides it to the machine to re-sort

the tool magazine.

Industry 4.0 made by HELLER

Essential for supplementary machine functions are new industry standards in terms of data

exchange and data security as well as standardised interfaces. However, for digitisation it is

important to develop data recording mechanisms capable of generating a real-life image of the

machine and mapping it within a network, either in the customer-internal private cloud or in an

internet-based public cloud.

For HELLER, the aim of all considerations, possibilities and solutions remains the reduction of

cycle times, and thus workpiece costs, by providing high productivity. Already today, HELLER

achieves the goal of generating added value for the customer through greater ease of use,

optimal integration into the network and expanded functionalities and service possibilities.

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Presentation at the AMB in Stuttgart

At the AMB in Stuttgart we will present the solutions of HELLER4Industry on our HELLER booth

as well on the booth of PTW.

HELLER booth

Hall 5, stand 5B55

PTW booth

Hall 5, stand 5D32

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HELLER AT A GLANCE

Founded in: 1894 in Nürtingen

2015 workforce: 2530

2015 order intake: EUR 561m

2015 turnover: EUR 556m

Chairman of the Board: Berndt Heller

Managing Directors of the HELLER Group: Klaus Winkler, CEOManfred Maier, COO

Fields of business: 4-axis and 5-axis machining centresMill/turning centresFlexible manufacturing systemsMachines for crankshaft and camshaft machiningCBC systemsServices

Production locations: Germany (Nürtingen)United Kingdom (Reddich)USA (Troy/Michigan)Brazil (Sorocaba)China (Changzhou)

Sales/Service locations: EUROPEGermany (Hattingen, Salem, Goslar, Saarbrücken, Nuremberg, Nürtingen)Italy (Verona)

France (Paris)Poland (Posen)

Spain (Barcelona)Sweden (Värnamo) Switzerland (Niederbüren)Slovakia (Vráble)Russia (Moscow)

NORTH/SOUTH AMERICAMexico (Querétaro)Brazil (Belo Horizonte, Gravataí, Joinville)

ASIAChina (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai)India (Pune) Thailand (Bangkok)Singapore

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