Industries

We use our expertise to develop solutions that span multiple industries, from tobacco and hemp products, straws to battery production. 

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Products

Our products combine proven engineering expertise, the very latest digital technology and an extensive portfolio of services worldwide.

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Digital

We accelerate your smart factory transformation

With 75+ years of domain expertise in process and batch manufacturing, we are uniquely positioned to collaborate with you on your journey to transform your factories into factories of excellence. Our one-stop-shop approach is a blend of domain-led consulting, data processing and vertical integration, cloud and on-premise hosting, software modularity and seamless integration with third-party solutions. Start your digital transformation. Take your business to the next level.

ConsultingData GovernanceSoftwareIntegrationProduct Suite K.AI©

 

The building blocks of our solution

Consulting

As a trusted long-term industry partner, Körber understands your machinery and processes. Based on this expertise, we offer manufacturers a structured approach to their transformation journey.

Data Governance

Our digital product portfolio provides real time insights into the factory and guidance with a focus on stable and secure connectivity and data handling. ISO 27001 certified.

Software

We specialize in optimizing the performance of process and batch manufacturing machines and plants. Our cloud and on-site software modules significantly improve availability, performance, and quality.

Integration

We help you implement software systems at your existing facilities, with our in-house solutions and/or solutions from third parties.

Consulting

As a long-term trusted industry partner, Körber understands your machinery, processes, and markets. Having been a go-to equipment, installation and service partner for almost 80 years, we understand your unique day-to-day and long-term challenges and aspirations first-hand. With our blend of domain-led consulting for smart factories, lean consulting, in-house IWS expertise and digital experts, we successfully leverage industry 4.0 technologies to create and deliver solutions for your digital transformation.

Our consulting services for your digital transformation

K.support AI©: Digital Consulting & Academy

Smart Factory and Lean Consulting

We offer manufacturers a structured approach to the digital transformation journey, which includes evaluating current digital maturity levels to create a tailored roadmap based on jointly discovered business outcomes. Our smart factory roadmap prioritizes workflows and use cases for quick wins, return on investment, and business criticality.
 

Software Implementation Consulting

We support you with the process of optimally implementing software systems into your existing facilities, or rolling out greenfield implementations. Our products and solutions are designed to be cloud-agnostic and to be also compatible with existing or future third-party solutions. Rely on our experienced team of architects, project managers, developers and scrum masters to make the most out of smart manufacturing.

Optimization Consulting

Owing to our rich domain expertise and a focus on operational excellence, we help you configure, control and optimize parameters in your machinery, production lines and processes. We guide you through the industry 4.0 digitization journey, including machinery connectivity, data processing, revamping, operations management, right up to building and energy management.

Academy

Our digital academy enables technicians and operators to acquire extensive knowledge of the machines at any time and from any location. Indications and instructions are also provided on interactive 3D models and explained step-by-step if necessary. This ensures that your employees operate your machines optimally and make the most of your factory’s digital transformation.

Data Governance

From the physical layer to the operational software, our digital product portfolio provides real time insights into the factory and guidance, including on manufacturing lines and operations. Our products exploit the data to enable machines to communicate based on suitable and common communication layers to set up a central and standardized instance, and enable effective data processing. The focus lies on stable and secure machine and shop floor connectivity, with a quick-to-scale infrastructure for your smart factory.

Our Data Governance solutions

K.explore©: Connect

Revamp

Our revamping services enable you to harmonize automation and production lines by integrating control systems, hardware, and communication interfaces. Revamping projects include consultation and training services, in addition to replacing or adapting hardware to effectively support your aspirations towards smart manufacturing.

Connect

Equipment-agnostic machine connectivity facilitates fast, automated, error-free data collection. This data can be processed into actionable intelligence, enabling predictions and preventing failure, as well as quick and easy root cause analysis, effective knowledge management, and other operational opportunities for improvements.

Certified Data Security: ISO 27001

At Körber, we understand that sharing data across corporate boundaries fuels the digital revolution, and we endorse it. That’s why we invest in certification processes to build this mutual trust with our customers and partners. Körber follows the international standard ISO 27001 for the protection of corporate data.

ICT/AI Technology

To help manufacturers exploit the value of future-proof features enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning, our data scientists and dedicated platforms digitally support and serve machines and processes in production plans. We collect and evaluate production data with custom algorithms and smart systems, enabling manufacturers to optimize their production processes.

OPC UA

OPC UA is an open and platform-independent communication standard with scalable machine-to-machine and machine-to-business connectivity. It includes a unique information model and supports secure data exchange with semantic properties, authentication, authorization, and encryption.

Cloud and on-premise software modules

We specialize in optimizing the performance of process and batch manufacturing machines and plants, with comprehensive support for production planning and control. To achieve this, we use machine data to reduce downtime, increase plant availability, and enhance overall performance. Our product range offers solutions that improve availability, performance, and quality. Using new digital technologies, we create efficient interfaces between employees and processes, addressing key optimization opportunities in plant and batch manufacturing.

Our software solutions

K.optimize AI©: Machine Optimizer

Increasing machine performance. Turn your data into valuable information. Our solution allows you to link your equipment together, collect data and use it as a basis for continuous improvements and machine learning.

Monitoring

The Monitoring module, enhanced by seamless machine connectivity, provides real time visibility into individual machines, enabling you to gain insights into production at any time and from any location. This allows you to quickly identify and respond to any faults, which reduces costly downtime of your machines and equipment.

Optimizer

Based on the Monitoring module, the Optimizer automatically and effortlessly facilitates anomaly detection, prediction of future states, root cause analysis, and knowledge management enabling a substantial reduction of downtime and an increase in availability.

K.optimize AI©: Line Optimizer

Increasing line performance. Configure and control your machines or your entire production line with a single centralized solution. Reliably and easily handle all performance-related processes with the Line Optimizer.

Monitoring

The Monitoring module, enhanced by seamless machine connectivity, provides real time visibility into the line and individual machines, enabling you to gain insights into production at any time and from any location. This allows you to quickly identify and respond to any faults, which reduces costly downtime of your machines and equipment.

Optimizer

To optimize line performance, we start by assessing the line and eventually upgrading hardware, controls and system integration required at the physical layer to make line automation possible. Downtime and speed loss across production lines are decreased by parameter monitoring and prioritized alerts.

Digital Twin

As part of the digital transformation, our Digital Twin solution module, initially developed for the tobacco industry, monitors, analyzes and stores all the relevant production parameters in real time to optimize tobacco yield and quality. AI-driven prediction models react immediately to any parameter change and adapt the related parameter accordingly.

K.optimize AI©: Operations Optimizer

Keep an eye on production, maintenance, intralogistics and quality processes throughout your factory at all times – in real time. Our modular operations management software solutions can be integrated seamlessly and run on both mobile devices and equipment dashboards.

Production

Our ISA-95 compliant production module (MES) monitors and synchronizes the execution of processes in which raw materials are transformed into final products in real time. It facilitates transparency, improvement, and efficiency in planning and executing processes, including the flow of goods, as well as coordinating tasks such as cleaning, inspection, and troubleshooting.

Maintenance

Increase the efficiency of your equipment by monitoring important parameters related to planning, cleaning and maintenance, with the right instructions to the right people at the right time. This ensures your production machines and lines operate as desired, significantly minimizing downtime.

Intralogistics

Our intralogistics module controls all processes for material flows and transfers along the entire value chain, whether the factory relies on manual, forklift-controlled systems or highly automated movement systems. This facilitates reduction of throughput times and increase in flexibility, efficiency and stability of production.
 

Quality

Our software helps to implement several ISO standards and other quality standards. The software continuously uses machine learning to analyze performance parameters and data for predetermined processes and requirements, such as calibration or order processing. This data forms the basis for important management review processes and decision support systems.

K.optimize AI©: Energy Optimizer

The software monitors and controls your company buildings: from fire and smoke detection, lighting and heating, ventilation and air conditioning, to video surveillance and security. This allows you to sustainably improve your company’s energy efficiency.

Building Manager

Our unique and highly integrated BEMS combines all energy-consuming infrastructure and data points, including those related to machinery, buildings and entire facilities at plants. Owing to our in-depth understanding, we are able to assess and advise you on energy management and provide your smart factory valuable system integration, savings and optimizations.

Energy Manager

The software uses artificial intelligence to determine how to better control the energy requirements of your company buildings. The software achieves this by correlating important parameters with one another, such as temperature control, other production processes, power spikes and even air and weather conditions.

Integrating in-house and third-party solutions

We support you with the process of optimally implementing software systems into your existing facilities, or rolling out greenfield implementations. Our products and solutions are based on cloud-agnostic architecture, and seamlessly integrate with existing or future third-party solutions. Our experienced team designs and implements solutions that smoothly communicate and leverage gathered data to achieve better business outcomes without compromising on data security.

Our Partner Portfolio

Certified Integration Partner

Our pivotal role in the ecosystems we support is an important part of our commitment and long-term vision. Our cooperation with trusted ICT partners and other vendors and players creates the ideal business environment for our teams and for your success.

FactoryPal: boost your manufacturing OEE

Our solutions enable you to leverage the opportunity to step into Industry 4.0 and increase OEE with an AI-based algorithm. The technology holistically analyzes each individual production line’s data for every specific production run. These recommendations enable process and machine operators to fully control machine parameter settings with our mobile app.

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The Körber Solution Suite: K.AI©

K.explore©

From hardware to software levels in smart factories, buildings, and manufacturing lines, our product range provides real-time insights. With data utilization, we enable machine communication on a common infrastructure, centralizing data evaluation and processing. Emphasis is on stable, secure, and scalable connectivity for user benefit.

K.support AI©

Our holistic solutions cover machinery and equipment management, knowledge and information management, process analysis, and consulting. Our product range ensures continuous improvement and remote control, optimizing plants with state-of-the-art service support. We use information technology as a digital asset to create and distribute digital content to people and systems.

K.optimize AI©

We optimize production machines, processes, and plants by leveraging data to reduce downtime and increase performance and energy utilization. Our product range improves availability, quality, and energy use. Using the latest digital technologies, we create efficient interfaces between employees and processes, addressing key business outcomes in process manufacturing.

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