Oerlikon Metco IIoT Transforms Thermal Spray Systems with a Digital Solution
Oerlikon Metco is revolutionizing thermal spraying equipment with digitalization and the implementation of Metco IIoT, the first Industry 4.0 platform for the thermal spray industry. Oerlikon has been developing thermal spray equipment for dec-ades, and they understand the relationship between machine, material and processes and how these factors can affect both output and coating quality.
Now they have used this expertise to develop Metco™ IIoT, the first digital platform allowing connect thermal spray systems within an Industry 4.0 platform, enabling a Smart Thermal Spray Factory. The aim is to understand the production process through data analysis and monitoring in real time and to improve it based on this information. This enables simpler, faster and more efficient operation of ma-chines and production systems, reducing the scrap rate and increasing throughput.