Comau Enters Partnership for Joint Development of Predictive Maintenance Solutions

 

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. (Rome, Italy), an information and communications technology company, and Comau S.p.A. (Turin, Italy), an industrial automation company, have signed a global cooperation agreement. The companies will join forces to pursue the development and marketing of solutions for predictive maintenance based on modular hardware and software designed to acquire and analyze field data. These solutions will be targeted to the manufacturing industry, particularly companies in the automotive, industrial manufacturing, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and white goods sectors, according to the Industry 4.0 paradigm.

The solutions developed by the two partner companies will be designed to predict potential malfunctions or machine stops, and to intercept negative trends in production process quality. The intention is to make maintenance and production processes become more rapid and efficient, thus benefiting the competitiveness of companies operating in global markets.

Mauro Fenzi, CEO of Comau, underscores the significance of the agreement between the two companies: “The agreement signed with Engineering is an important element in our strategy to make industrial automation increasingly open and easy to use. This collaboration, and especially the synergy that comes from uniting the know-how of our two companies—both of which have been engaged in the development of solutions for Industry 4.0 for quite some time—allows us to guide manufacturing companies toward changing production processes.”

Paolo Pandozy, CEO of Engineering, adds, “Thanks to the complementary nature of our combined expertise and solutions, we can provide the market with the unique ability to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of automated production processes using the most modern field data collection and analysis technologies.”