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Salvagnini and Molex Collaborate to Fuel Development of Flexible Industrial Automation Solutions

Customer-focused collaboration powers technology innovations, seamless communications and industry-leading operational efficiencies for global sheet-metal machine manufacturer.

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INDUSTRY 4.0 LOOMS LARGE

The promise of Industry 4.0 looms large for companies worldwide as plans ramp up to digitize and transform the speed and operation of complex machines, control systems and factory floors. For many organizations, the opportunity to realize the value of Industry 4.0 still sits on the horizon. At Salvagnini, however, an overarching commitment to process optimization and efficiency is yielding tangible benefits today. 

After dealing with communications loss issues on an EtherCAT line, Salvagnini began collaborating with Molex to resolve wiring issues, building solutions to achieve higher stability and connection quality across its connected machines. 

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“With Molex’s help, we continue to tackle the challenges of today’s supply chain constraints in different ways. We are aligned culturally to deliver modular, innovative and customized solutions based on in-depth studies of customer needs — reinforced by pioneering, smart solutions that support and enhance final products.”
Alessandro Bano
Commodity Manager
Salvagnini

Challenges

  • High-speed communications needed to connect complex sheet-metal manufacturing machines and processes

  • Flexible industrial automation required flawless exchange of real-time data with factory-floor and cloud-based systems

  • Customized industrial Ethernet connections required for addressing increasingly powerful and rigorous customer applications  

Solutions

  • Molex’s proven knowledge of industrial Ethernet architecture expedited delivery of customized solutions with higher stability and connection quality

  • Broad portfolio of industrial communications products drove next-gen architecture and flexible industrial automation

  • Production ramp of standard parts in different sizes eased supply chain constraints  

Benefits

  • Shared Industry 4.0 commitment accelerated development of compact, IP67-rated products for increasingly smaller, demanding applications

  • Improved machine diagnostics and predictive maintenance reduced machine repair times

  • Molex solution fueled huge potential for growth across vast IIoT ecosystem  

OFFERING TAILORED SOLUTIONS

High-speed connectivity not only exchanges data with factory-floor systems and smart sensors, it enables a wealth of information sharing. For these and other reasons, Salvagnini cannot compromise when it comes to connectivity. This is why the company reached out to Molex after encountering stability issues with a legacy connectivity solutions provider. 

Molex applied proven knowledge of industrial Ethernet architecture and devices to find and fix this critical challenge. “Trying to determine the root of our issue was very complicated,” remembers Alessandro Bano, Commodity Manager at Salvagnini. “Not only did Molex quickly analyze and solve the problem, but they offered a unique solution for Ethernet, EtherCAT and Canbus cables, which we later adopted at all of our production sites in Italy.”

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