Changing consumer requirements, an increasing variety of variants and other trends are posing ever greater challenges for producers of dairy products worldwide. With a wide range of flexible, high-performance weighing and inspection solutions, Minebea Intec helps its customers to prepare for these increasing requirements.
Minebea Intec strengthens its management level: With Peter Steiner, the business in the partner regions worldwide is to be promoted in addition to the sales development in the core markets. This appointment completes the C-level under CEO Hidenori Shimosako.
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The main aims of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) are cost-efficient and flexible processes. OPC UA creates the necessary conditions for this and provides a common language base for all equipment and systems. Minebea Intec, the global manufacturer of industrial weighing and inspection technologies, was substantially involved with the definition of the OPC UA Companion Specification for Weighing Technology and is paving the way for the digitalisation of weighing technology with its software miOPC.
Minebea Intec, the global provider of industrial weighing and inspection technologies, is now combating all of the common problems caused by the failure of a machine relevant for production – lengthy downtimes and a long wait for service appointments or suitable spare parts – with the innovative service tool miRemote. This augmented reality tool provides a live link between the customer and service technician. Physical distance is no longer an issue when analysing a problem and delivering initial assistance. Interested companies can now see the advantages of the innovative tool for themselves.
The annual Weighing Review Awards are an indicator of the company's reputation among customers. This year, Minebea Intec managed to confirm its strong performance from previous years: the company came out on top several times in the voting of the international online platform "Weighing Review" - no less than four products secured first place.
Single points are among the most widely used load cells worldwide. In contrast to other force sensors, these products allow force to be applied at different points without falsifying the measurement result - this is ensured by the integrated parallelogram. High-precision weighing applications can thus be realised with only one load cell.
Since the product launch, the Puro industrial scale series has been convincing not only because of its performance and affordable price: smart logistics, transparent processes, online tutorials and an improved ecological footprint make Puro a product of the digital age.
With the new WZED load cell with electromagnetic force compensation from Minebea Intec, our checkweigher models receive a turbo upgrade: the new load cell with digital controller have received MID approval in the legal-for-trade range for belt speeds of up to 3 metres per second – this means up to 600 pieces per minute. The upgrade package contains many more features that pay off for user of high-speed applications.
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Minebea Intec, leading manufacturer of weighing and inspection solutions, is launching the WPL-A, their first automatic weigh-price labelling system. The labelling solution offers the ideal and complete package for customers in the food industry: weighing, pricing, labelling and product traceability in one package.
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Since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, the global economy has been turned on its head. Due to the impact of the pandemic, once sturdy structures such as importing, exporting and supply chains have proven to be fragile at times. Across the world, manufacturing industry has been reporting steep cuts. Are all industries affected? No, not all of them. Individual manufacturers such as Minebea Intec are demonstrating the highest level of performance at this time where it is needed most.
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Manufacturer of industrial weighing and inspection systems, Minebea Intec will now be providing its customers with a modular outer case marker. The global company has brought their expertise in checkweighing to the labelling market with a new hygienic weigh price labeller specifically designed for the meat, fish, dairy, fruit, and vegetable markets.
With increasing globalisation, the competitive pressure is rising throughout the industry. Industrial producers are facing growing cost pressure on the one hand and increasing quality requirements on the other. Efficiency is the key word and the measures to improve it go far but do they reach far enough into the future? With its "Invest to Save" initiative, the global supplier of industrial weighing and inspection technologies, Minebea Intec, supports customers on their way to increased efficiency and shows which long-term decisions lead to a faster return on investment.
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In order to stay competitive, manufacturers in the confectionery industry depend on fast, flexible, economical and safe production facilities. These include modern weighing and inspection technologies, which help to reduce the number of rejects or increase process speeds. Minebea Intec sees itself as an innovative partner in technologies and solutions that aim to increase efficiency and productivity.
When calculating capital goods, companies often save money in the wrong place if they focus solely on acquisition costs. A more detailed cost statement, such as a total cost of ownership calculation, helps to provide an all-encompassing overview: It not only shows possible additional costs, but also reveals hidden savings potential.
In terms of complex production processes, manufacturers in a number of industries count on the expertise of plant engineers. The goal is to create tailor-made solutions which can be seamlessly integrate into manufacturers’ production lines and applications. In order to best achieve this, process integrators choose their suppliers with great care. Consequently, providers such as global industrial weighing and inspection technology makers, Minebea Intec, as well as offering an extensive, high-quality portfolio of products, they also offer engineering services.
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With its weighing modules in the Novego range, Minebea Intec has experienced sustained success in recent years. Since being launched two years ago, the high-precision solutions with hygienic design have firmly established themselves in, amongst others, application areas such as the pharmaceutical and food industries. Where does the idea for an innovative product development like this come from and what steps are crucial for it to succeed?
Product quality, efficiency and safety in production are particularly important within the confectionery industry. With its weighing and inspection solutions, Minebea Intec provides the key components for efficient production and offers a complete overview of the entire production chain with supporting software, such as statistical process control.
The global consumption of confectionery is growing steadily. For manufacturers of chocolate, sweets, chewing gum and other sugary sweets, this means making their production facilities fast, flexible, economical and safe in order to remain competitive. Minebea Intec´s powerful, state-of-the-art weighing and inspection solutions for this industry help producers to increase their efficiency.
The industrial technology expert Minebea Intec is expanding its digital range of services with its Compact Webinars. Customers can now expand and build on their knowledge in the field of weighing and inspection technologies from the comfort of their home or workplace. The digital live webinars are designed to enable participants to acquire the most know-how in the shortest possible time.
The established products of Minebea Intec have usually scored well at the Weighing Review Awards, but this year the new products also confirmed the manufacturer's strong reputation with customers: The company won multiple awards at the coveted awards of the international online platform "Weighing Review": No less than four products secured first place, including the recently launched Puro industrial scale.
Particularly in times when it is difficult for companies and customers to talk to each other personally, digital solutions that enable simple, location-independent, and direct exchange are more in demand than ever. With its new range of virtual showrooms, Minebea Intec is offering a digital consulting point for interested parties, thus demonstrating that the company not only has decades of expertise in weighing and inspection technology but also responds to the current crisis and the challenges it poses in the interests of the customer with innovative offers.
Plastic is still the material of the future. The plastics industry, and the plastics processing industry in particular, provide a platform for technological advancement and form the basis for a range of other industries. However, there are also growing challenges facing the plastics industry. The calls for even more efficient use of raw materials and energy at all levels of the process and value chain are causing many manufacturers to ‘rethink plastic’. This also involves using technologies that facilitate more sustainable ways of working, such as conservation and efficient use of resources, and make it safer to use recycled materials. Minebea Intec is one of the world’s leading providers of weighing and inspection solutions, and is helping the plastics industry to explore new horizons with precision.
17 European companies within the MinebeaMitsumi Group, including three Minebea Intec locations in Germany, donate N95 protective masks to hospitals and care facilities.
Special measures are required in difficult times. With an innovative service tool, Minebea Intec shows that its customers can always rely on the company: miRemote, based on augmented reality technology, enables an immediate online connection between customers and Minebea Intec, thus avoiding waiting times for technicians and unnecessary production downtimes: Smaller problems can often be solved with a little support - as if the service technician himself were live on site. Especially in times when travelling, access to production facilities and personal contact is difficult or even impossible, miRemote proves to be exactly the right service solution.
In China, the biotech company CanSino is working together with the military medical department to develop a vaccine against the Covid-19 virus. The researchers are supported by products from Minebea Intec: These play an important role in the manufacturing process and ensure that high-precision weighing and dosing is possible. The decision to rely on the German manufacturer's solutions was obvious: CanSino is only using premium industrial equipment, and they previously relied on quality "Made in Germany" by Minebea Intec in 2014, when it developed a vaccine against Ebola.
The pet food production industry is more and more confronted with similar requirements to the food industry: ensuring contamination-free products has always been the most important premise for both industries. In addition, new trends in food production are reflected in the production of pet food, forcing companies to be flexible. With its broad product portfolio of weighing and inspection solutions, Minebea Intec offers the right solution for every production step to be prepared for the future.
The outbreak of the coronavirus is restricting our world. The pandemic is causing supply bottlenecks worldwide due to increased demands for goods, limited production capacities, and local import and export restrictions. Like any other company, producers of food, beverages, or pharmaceuticals must face the COVID-19 risk. At the same time, they play an important role in supplying the population with essential goods. The global manufacturer of industrial weighing and inspection technologies, Minebea Intec, is aware of the urgency of an uninterrupted supply chain. It offers customers exceptional support and special measures as immediate counteractions against the coronavirus.
С появлением новых промышленных весов серии Puro ведущие технологии Minebea Intec стали еще более доступны по приемлемой цене. Благодаря широкому ассортименту и разнообразию областей применения, большое количество инновационных решений для промышленного взвешивания теперь представляет часть ассортимента Puro. Это означает, что клиенты извлекают выгоду из высококачественного продукта от ведущего производителя весоимерительных и инспекционных технологий, который доступен по приемлемой цене. Каждая модель создается с учетом требований клиента.
Changing consumer requirements, an increasing variety of variants and other trends are posing ever greater challenges for producers of dairy products worldwide. With a wide range of flexible, high-performance weighing and inspection solutions, Minebea Intec helps its customers to prepare for these increasing requirements.
Products with the “Made in Germany” seal are held in the highest regard around the world. This applies both in the consumer sector and in the industrial environment. According to international studies, the seal enjoys an excellent reputation around the world and is ranked first out of 52 countries on the Made-in-Country Index. The ranking is an honour and a mission at the same time: with three production plants in Germany, the global manufacturer of industrial weighing and inspection solutions Minebea Intec stands for German Quality and also ensures that its high quality standards are adhered to at its other locations around the world.
In many countries, the production of bakery goods is one of the largest and fastest-growing segments in the food industry. Minebea Intec offers a unique range of products and services for the various tasks in this area. The international food and beverage industry has been experiencing something of a boom in recent years. By 2023, the annual growth rate is expected to be in the region of 10.3 percent. The industry’s total sales in the three largest markets alone – China, the UK and South Korea – will be around EUR 34 billion in 2019. In many countries, the production of bakery goods is one of the largest and fastest-growing segments in the food industry, and is often only surpassed by sales in meat and poultry production.
The year 2019 ends with a great success: In December, Minebea Intec successfully prevailed over the competition in the Readers' Choice Awards of the international online platform "Automation Inside": A total of eight awards went to the global supplier of industrial weighing and inspection technologies. Not only the manufacturer's proven products were convincing, but also the company itself received a valuable award.
Minebea Intec puts the customer first. With this in mind, the global provider of industrial weighing and inspection solutions develops innovative solutions, tailored for differing requirements across a wide range of sectors. The example of Playmobil manufacturer geobra Brandstätter Stiftung & Co. KG perfectly illustrates how the technology experts ensure reliable check weighing despite disruptive influences in injection moulding.
Minebea Intec’s freefall metal detection system Vistus RS enables the reliable inspection of metallic foreign objects. The product’s low installation height means it can be easily integrated into existing systems and, when combined with the Vistus Terminal, offers a detection solution which guarantees product quality and effective production.
Minebea Intec is once more focusing its attention firmly on the customer with its new Experience Centre ‘EC’ in Bangkok, Thailand. The EC stands for 100% support and service on the ground in Southeast Asia. The brand new showroom enables visitors to experience the entire Minebea Intec product range for themselves, access personal training, conduct product testing and receive fast and professional technical support.
Minebea Intec is one of the leading suppliers of industrial weighing and inspection technology. For decades, Minebea Intec's products have ensured optimum product quality and efficiency for production plants. The latest product developments are specially designed to meet the challenges of the plastics processing industry: They score points with strong innovations that are likely to be of particular interest to operators of injection molding systems.
The truck scale load cell PR 6221 from Minebea Intec combines the decades of experience of the leading manufacturer of weighing and inspection technology with innovative technology. When used with the converter Connexx, the user benefits from a digital solution that is quick, light and flexible to use and can withstand even the harshest ambient conditions.
Minebea Intec is putting together a broad product package for various industries and application profiles for the PPMA Total Show 2019. In addition to highlights from checkweighing and foreign body detection, the company will also be presenting new products for the plastics processing industry and demonstrate its qualities in the area of customized solutions.
Minebea Intec has put together a comprehensive product package for various industries and application profiles especially for FachPack 2019. In addition to highlights from the areas of control weighing and foreign object inspection, the company will also be showing new products for the plastics processing industry and demonstrating its qualities in the area of customized solutions.
Just in time for the Interweighing trade fair in China, Minebea Intec presents innovative solutions for industrial weighing: The highlight of the stand: The dynamic checkweigher Essentus, which can be tailored to individual application profiles with a wide range of options - resulting in cost savings for the customer. At the fair, the company will also be presenting exciting new products for plant engineers and the winner of the "Best Load Cell 2019" title of the Weighing Review Awards.
The weighing module Novego from Minebea Intec has been specially developed for the demanding requirements of the food industry. It’s not only the particularly easy installation that makes this hygienic complete solution stand out: alongside several innovative features, the Novego offers reliable, precise measurement results in weighing processes – even with transverse forces of up to 20% of the nominal load. Thanks to two new load levels, this leading technology can now benefit an even wider range of applications.
With Essentus, Minebea Intec, the global provider of innovative weighing and inspection technologies, offers a new dynamic checkweigher that with its wide range of options can be tailored to individual application profiles. No matter whether for heavy or light products, for example, in the food or chemical industry: customers can choose exactly the checkweigher that suits their application. There is great potential for savings in combinatorics.
In certain industrial applications, all it can take is a spark or excess heat to cause an industrial explosion. Protection against such scenarios is therefore one of the central components of industrial safety technology and is also an important consideration for weighing processes. Minebea Intec is one of the few suppliers to offer a wide variety of explosion-proof weighing solutions in its portfolio.
With version 4.0 of the powerful SPC@Enterprise software, Minebea Intec now offers a comprehensive and complete package with an increased ease of use. The software for statistical process control and pre-package inspection includes extended functions for dynamic checkweighers and metal detectors. At Conjunctively, the global provider of leading weighing and inspection technologies is launching a new version of its successful ProRecipe XT software.
In many industries, analogue and digital load cells form the technical foundation for precision in the weighing and batching of goods and related invoicing. Digital systems have many advantages for the user.
Minebea Intec, the global manufacturer of weighing and inspection technologies, has added two new product series to its range of innovative solutions for reliable industrial weighing. The LC load cell series offers dependable weighing components for the construction of bench scales, counting scales and other weighing systems. At the same time, the new weighing electronics of the CSD series ensure reliable processing of measurement signals and master simple as well as more demanding dosing tasks. Both product ranges offer affordable solutions for moderate requirements and benefit from decades of expertise of a leading weighing equipment manufacturer.
Last year, Minebea Intec was successful at the Readers' Choice Awards. This year, the company confirmed its strong standing in the weighing industry: Minebea Intec was able to to better the vote over it’s international competitors several times in the international online platform „Weighing Review“: Four products secured first place and the title "Best Weighing Company" award is also within reach.
With the innovative Dymond D side shooter and a new edition of the Dymond S, Minebea Intec is now offering a modernised portfolio of premium products for horizontal X-ray inspection. With the addition of these devices, the leading supplier of weighing and inspection solutions wants, among other things, to make it easier for its customers to decide on which packaging materials to use.
Minebea Intec’s innovative X-ray inspection systems enable customers all over the world to carry out safe and reliable inspection of raw materials and packaged products. Continuous development of the systems increases not only efficiency but also flexibility when it comes to selecting packaging materials.
At the Readers Choice Awards by the international online platform „Automation Inside“, Minebea Intec gets the better of the competition: All in all, four awards went to products of the global provider of industrial weighing and inspection technologies. This constitutes a visible result of successful customer orientation as well as research and development.
The digitalisation of customer services has been increasing exponentially in all industrial sectors for years. Under ‘Service 4.0’, the aim is for users to be able to access support quickly when they need it in order to ensure the safety, availability and efficiency of production lines.