UNITECHNIK

Digitization: paperless precasting plant

An allocation sheet for every production pallet and an individual slab record for every element on the pallet – a great deal of hardcopy is still being printed in production environments. After all, the costs of a few sheets of paper are negligible compared to the costs of concrete, reinforcing steel and embedded parts. Or are they not? Looking at the amount of overall work involved in a hardcopy printing process and the individual costs – for paper, printer, toner and for waste disposal, to name just a few – this is neither up with the times nor economical.

A calculation example: if 50...

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