Major EU woodworking machinery producers plan to enable machine communication

    The production in the woodworking industry nowadays implies more and more digital manufacturing processes to gain efficiency and competitiveness through integrated data management and analysis. This means that woodworking machines need to be connected to each other and form a production network linked to an ERP/MES system or a cloud. Without a standard communication protocol connecting machinery from different suppliers, software programming is always required, thus affecting efficiency and costs.    For this reason, eight leading European woodworking machinery manufacturers (Altendorf, Biesse Group, Bürkle, Homag, IMA Schelling, SCM, Weber, Weinig) have ...