SACMI Innovation Services

The SACMI 4.0 “innovation package”

Enabling technologies for industry (SACMI Innovation Lab)

The Group has facilities dedicated to the development and dissemination of 4.0 enabling technologies which, over the last few years, have been upgraded and made systemic by creating a real SACMI “innovation package”, at the service of the Group's businesses but also open to the system of companies, laboratories and regional universities. The mission of these companies, and in particular of the new SACMI Innovation Lab, is to promote the diffusion of the IoT (Internet of Things) in the regional business system, collaborating with the Universities and Research Laboratories of the Regional Network of High Technology.

These are the main enabling services/technologies available through the “SACMI innovation package”: hardware/firmware systems; industrial simulation systems, HPC - real time system, analytics, machine learning; HMI, user interfaces for automation; DCS-MES-MOM, production line control systems and production plant control; technology selection for automation, control automation&motion, architecture definition for automation; 2D&3D printing, IDS-INK delivery system design; IoT Network, network systems for OT, on-premises data collection systems.

Sacmi Innovation Lab

PROTESA

Through its companies and consortia, SACMI offers measurement, quality control, product development and reverse engineering services, as well as applied research on advanced ceramics.

In the field of metrology, the company PROTESA provides the Laboratory of Metrology, where the instruments used in the control of mechanical parts are checked and calibrated in order to ensure the high quality standard. The calibration laboratory is located in this room, where the operations are carried out in a controlled environment.

In particular, PROTESA has invested in recent years in the development of the D4P department, “digital for the product” active since 2009. The structure can offer advanced digital development platforms with innovative techniques such as immersive reality, in synergy with the “digital twin” projects developed by SACMI Innovation Lab.

In addition to the consolidation of numerical simulation activities on the topics of topological and parametric optimization, vibration analysis, deformation, combustion control, simulation of advanced convective models and thermostructural analysis, PROTESA has directed resources to the study of compression and extrusion of multilayer polymers, fluid dynamics of sanitaryware discharge, simulations of hydroforming as support to the special press department, models of damage to metal materials (cookware utensils).

In reverse engineering, PROTESA uses the most modern technical equipment including a 3D environmental scanner with thermal analysis and HD camera.

Reverse Engineering, Modelling

CAE Computer Aided Engineering, Rendering and Animation

Design and production, Prototypes, Technical consultancy

IPREL

The “SACMI 4.0 innovation package” is completed by IPREL, a company specialising in hardware and software design and the development of monitoring systems.

The core of the company's activities is the governance of issues related to the “digital transformation”. In particular, IPREL follows high-level projects in the field of automation, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems and robotics, with a particular focus on the Italian market driven by Industry 4.0 and IoT projects. In terms of digital, IPREL is now equipped to deal with all problems, from the field to the data infrastructure or business intelligence of the factory, up to the connection with the management systems of the customer.

IPREL has several collaborations with universities and invests significant resources in the training of internal staff, to constantly adapt the know-how to the demands of the market.

Hardware and Software Design for Industrial Automation.

Monitoring and Supervision Systems.

Technical Consultancy and Preparation of Offers.

TEAM by SACMI

In the field of Research on advanced materials and ceramics, SACMI has been operating since 2007 through the TEAM (Technology and Experience for Advanced Materials) Division. By coordinating the activities of the various Group companies operating in this field - SACMI Imola, Sama Maschinenbau, Riedhammer, Laeis, Alpha Ceramics, Gaiotto - TEAM offers added value to its customers by providing a single point of contact and cutting-edge services for the design and development of technologies applied to special ceramics, from raw material preparation to forming and firing.