Glaston Insight Automotive PLUS

Performance increasing digital service upgrade package


For operator and production support

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Upgrade your Glaston CHAMP or BRIGHT machine

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Increase your daily performance and productivity

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Benefit from a steadily growing selection of digital services

Your benefits from Glaston Insight Automotive PLUS


With Glaston Insight Automotive PLUS you will easily improve your performance and productivity. Save precious time and money and take advantage of the full potential of your diamond tools. This digital service is the perfect completion to our exclusive Glaston grinding tools, designed to match 100% customer requirements.

Auto centering

Automatic self-adjustment of the grinding machine after job change.

Lower your tool cost based on an automatic optimized set up of the grinding parameters what leads to an extended grinding wheel life time. Increase your productivity significantly by saving up to 70% of the time normally needed for a job change.

Tool break-in

Fully customizable break-in process for new grinding tools.

Extend the lifetime of your expensive grinding tools and make sure that even the first pane after a tool change is on the highest quality level by setting a defined running-in procedure easily.

User setting

Individually assignable user rights for each parameter.

Protect your investment and ensure the highest quality level for your customers. Make sure that only authorized and trained personnel have access to critical machine parameters.

Parameter setting

Individually designable parameter storage for customer-specific production optimization.

Master all job dependent parameters and increase your productivity by setting up your customized production parameter database.

Advanced control system ACS3

All Glaston Insight Automotive Digital Services are designed to operate on our Microsoft Windows 10 based advanced control system ACS3, which is available for all machines from 2010 on.

  • Intuitive and operator friendly HMI: Usable even without keyboard and mouse, supports multi touch gestures
  • Favorite parameters: Create your own parameter hit list as a short cut and adapt them immediately without scrolling through many different menus
  • Simplified parameter structure of only 3 categories: tool, process, machine
  • Multiple languages: Switch instantly between 11 pre-installed languages
  • Job Change Assistant: Menu-guided and self-explaining job change procedures support your operators to save valuable production
    time
  • Pre-installed digital services such as our “Job Report” or “Logfile Analyzer”

References


FLACHGLAS, Germany

#flat glass laminating #glass processing #glass quality #laminated glass #laminating #ProL #ProL-zone #quality control #reference #safety glass #upgrades

At FLACHGLAS, a culture of operational excellence fuels continuous modernizations. “The latest Glaston ProL upgrade for our 50-year-old lamination line has helped us raise performance, save energy and automate production with the push of a button,” says Martin Geiss, Technical Manager at FLACHGLAS Wernberg.

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Lippert Components, USA

#automation #automotive #automotive glass #bending #CHAMP #CHF #glass bending #glass tempering #Matrix #reference #safety glass

Tim Widner at Lippert Components in the US is sharing his and his team's experiences working with the Glaston glass processing machinery. "The new equipment has been a great addition to us. We are able to one-piece flow our raw material through our line, hands-free. No humans come in contact with the glass until it is fully tempered and at the end of the process."

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Press Glass Inc., U.S.A.

#automation #flat glass laminating #glass processing #laminating #ProL #reference #safety glass #upgrades

Since establishing their presence in the US through an acquisition, Poland-based Press Glass has continued its brisk growth based on the same values that make it the #1 glass fabricator in Europe and the UK. The company’s latest US investment is a Glaston ProL convection control upgrade at its Ridgeway, Virginia, plant.

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