PLASTIC SOLUTION sas DI DALL’OSTO LUCIANO & C.: the Industry 4.0 revolution in a small company specialized in plastic processing

THE CHALLENGE

Plastic Solution has established itself in the Italian and international market in the field of technical supplies for the industry. It boasts over thirty years of experience in the production of all types of semi-finished plastic materials, such as common polymers, technopolymers, and superpolymers.

It caters particularly to those who need to produce custom-designed turned or milled, planed, cut, and chamfered parts according to diverse needs. In order to significantly increase its productivity, the company decided in 2021 to upgrade its machinery to Industry 4.0 by interconnecting the new BIESSE Selko SK 4, Materia CL, and Rover Plast machines, leveraging the tax incentives of the Transition 4.0 Plan, and taking the first steps towards Industry 4.0.

THE SOLUTION

For this reason, Plastic Solution installed the new digital solution for managing company orders, SMARTCONNECTION by BIESSE “powered by RETUNER®”: the MES software developed by Orchestra, in collaboration with BIESSE, to plan, advance, control, and finalize the machining operations in production. This technology is specifically designed for small and medium-sized enterprises operating in plastic processing that still lack a digitalized production management system.

THE BENEFITS

The installation of the software in the company has resulted in a series of benefits that have helped optimize the production process. These include:

• Balancing the hours needed for customer orders, thus being able to confirm more precise delivery dates
• Significant economic advantage in fiscal terms, being able to take advantage of the 4.0 law, which allowed for investment and consequently a more positive outlook on future commitments
• Greater cost control, being able to obtain precise times in the production of each individual piece produced.

“Believing in this new tool has allowed us, as a small company, to grow and to have a very balanced competitiveness and cost control. It has also allowed us to look to the near future with an awareness of our potential, to be able to offer our customers reliability, expertise, and service which, especially in this difficult market moment, have been so highly demanded,” says Luciano Dall’Osto, the company’s owner, today.