Well-known brands such as Ferrero, Nestlé, Unilever and Roche rely on Gerhard Schubert GmbH’s automation solutions. Known for its packaging machines, Gerhard Schubert GmbH enables various companies from foods, confectionery, beverages, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and technical consumer goods industries, to print format parts for machines, machines that are used to automate the manufacturing process of products.
The packaging machines are said to be flexible, efficient and reliable. However, with the goal of improving the modular approach, the company invested in the creation of a digital warehouse and Ultimaker 3D printers. The new investment will enable its customers to receive their functional parts where and when they need them.
Marcus Schindler, Head of Materials Management at Gerhard Schubert GmbH and CEO of Schubert Additive Solutions GmbH: “Our motto is think, make, store, print. We don’t just offer 3D files. We carefully think about the right parts, make the designs and certify the print jobs. Furthermore, we store the designed parts in our Part-Streaming-Platform, our digital warehouse, and we consult our customers on how to print. We selected the Ultimaker because of the ease of use, high print quality, the widest range of available materials and because there is no post processing needed with for the FFF printed format parts.”
“Our digital warehouse is based on a monthly paid subscription model. Customers select the part they want for their machine online and simply send the certified .gcode file to the Ultimaker S5 we have made available for them. Our customers highly appreciate our flexible support in creating custom designs of parts that fully suit their needs. Altogether this makes our machines and services extremely agile“, continued Schindler.
Via its AM business unit Schubert Additive Solutions GmbH, Gerhard Schubert GmbH shows another example on how industrials can integrate industry 4.0 and 3D printing in their production workflow. It also gives an idea about how 3D printing is about to reshape the retail industry. From 3D printed clothing to a simplified supply chain, things are falling into place slowly but surely.
As Jos Burger, CEO at Ultimaker said, Gerhard Schubert GmbH fully embraced [a] vision of distributed printing. “They design parts centrally, distribute these files digitally and manufacture the designed customized functional parts locally. […] The innovators at Gerhard Schubert GmbH can focus on filling their digital warehouse and continue to offer their customers future-proof packaging machine solutions their everchanging industries require.“
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