SCM ONCE AGAIN took centre stage at Xylexpo 2022, held from 12 to 15 October in conjunction with Bi.Mu.
The trade fair was a special opportunity for the Group from Rimini to celebrate its 70th anniversary with customers, dealers and media partners. SCM’s first woodworking machine, L’Invincibile, dates back to 1952 and from there, the beginning of a long history of international successes that continue to this day, with 750 million Euro in turnover, over 4,000 employees and a range of products and services believed to be globally unique to meet all the production demands for wood machining.
With an innovative, multimedia stand of over 2,000 m2 in Pavilion 22, the Group presented its vision of the digital, connected and integrated factory, designed to accompany all the businesses and fields of application in the sector: from artisans to large industries; from furniture to windows and doors and from woodworking to timber construction.
Integration was one of the key concepts that drove the experience of visitors at SCM’s stand. The Smart&Human Factory model already successfully applied by global manufacturing leaders, presented different innovations aimed at making customer processes even more efficient and sustainable and was re-proposed in two specific versions for industry and artisan.
In both cases, SCM proposed integrated automated flexible cell systems that are modular and easily reconfigurable, capable of meeting all the Industry 4.0’s demands.
Cells that combine the advantages of SCM technologies in terms of solidity, efficiency and reliability, with world class manufacturing digital products and services: MES systems to manage and control production; line and cell supervisory software to monitor the state of each of the products being machined throughout the entire process; IoT systems and apps to gather and analyse data from machines, for complete control and implementation of intelligent and prognostic maintenance models. Without forgetting the robotic and automation systems integrated into the machines, these too are flexible and modular, for use in large industries.
Also integrated is the digital transformation vision that visitors at Xylexpo had a chance to see for themselves in the SCM Digital Integrated Woodworking Process. Here, technologies, software and services integrate at each of the stages — preparation of data, planning, production, monitoring and assistance — to increase productivity and connect the entire process from the office to the factory.
There are a lot of new entries in process software, at different stages of woodworking. Considerable interest is also expected for easyFlow, SCM’s new MES plug&play that is simple, scalable and available even to artisan businesses, and Thundercut, the cutting optimiser-sequencer that brings the potential of a circular saw closer to the most powerful industrial panel saws.
In the same area, there was the opportunity to get a more in-depth explanation from SCM’s experts on the increasingly customer-centred digital services that support the customer from pre to after sales: the new My SCM portal that grants access to a vast range of technical support services anytime, anywhere, even via smartphone; the new integrated E-shop for the online sale of machines, spare parts, software and services; the IoT Maestro connect platform perfectly integrated to the ‘Woodworking made Izy’ project that sees the most important machinery manufacturers committed to offering a common language for their technologies, as part of a complete integration of the customer’s machines.
‘Made in SCM’ innovation encompassed the entire range of solutions on show for the industry: sizing, nesting, edgebanding, drilling, assembly and packaging as part of panel machining; integrated SCM surface technologies for sanding, pressing and painting to meet all the demands for surface treatment with exclusive, state-of-the-art finishing results; technologies for windows and doors and solid wood machining; squaring, including the latest for click furniture; systems for timber construction and 4.0 woodworking.
Equally innovative was the presentation method of the various new entries with 7.5 x 3 m LED wall, multimedia and interactive systems, video cameras and 3D flow animations ready to let visitors enjoy a real-time experience on each production process. As well as the daily demo and interviews with SCM professionals in the ‘SCM News’ feature, there was no lack of remote connections with SCM’s Technology Centre to present the new entries on show at the trade fair and take a closer look at them.
For contact details, see page 16 & 17 of our October/November 2022 issue on our Back Issues page.
