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
Jaakko-Tuote, Finland
#flat glass laminating #laminating #ProL #ProL-zone #reference #upgrades
“The idea of investing in Glaston’s ProL-zone laminating furnace started as an R&D project for us. We wanted to see how it functions on one of our own safety glass lamination machines built in-house. The goal for us is to raise capacity and improve our lamination line’s energy efficiency. We’re starting an extremely demanding safety glass project and plan to put ProL-zone to the test,” says Aki Harjunpää, CEO of Jaakko-Tuote, Finland.
Read moreKristal, Bosnia and Herzegovina
#automation #iControL #scanner #upgrades
“We purchased the Glaston iControL and scanner upgrade to solve any concern with software or spare parts availability before they became an issue. Once installed, the upgrade helped us win a large glass façade project in Indonesia that required extremely high quality. Both we and Glaston can be proud of the high level of quality achieved,” says Matea Franjić, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Kristal in Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Read moreWalshs Glass, Australia
#architectural #automation #glass processing #glass tempering #glass tempering process #iControL #reference #RHC #safety glass #tempered glass #upgrades
In January 2021, Walshs Glass in Western Australia began using their Glaston RHC upgrade, enabling them to improve glass flatness and optical quality. “Today, we’re positioned to take advantage of the rapidly changing glass processing demands in Western Australia," says Steve Cuff, Executive Operations Manager at Walshs Glass.
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