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HiLiTEPublished by the Hauni Group
REVOLUTION IN INDUSTRYHauni offers solutions for radical changes in the tobacco industry
A PERFECT RUN Decouflé and Hauni have teamed
up to create a cigar production line
GO JELLY The unloved jellyfish is an effective filter for microplastics and a fashionable food
SMASHING IDEAS
How REVOLUTIONARY INVENTIONS have changed our daily lives, key industries and the whole global economy
Build your own modular MSM Multi Segment Maker
THP is revolutionizing the tobacco industry. The modular MSM is the first maker that can be adapted continuously to the changing demands of the market. Experience its possibilities. Always future proof.
FUTURE – MADE BY HAUNI
»COMPACT« Composed of 2 feeding modules, a rolling module with laser and inspection module. Perfect for pre-combined THP segments to give the THP consumable the look of a cigarette with a distinguished cigarette paper and the possibility to increase ventilation through laser treatment.
Typical configurations
»DOUBLE ROLLER« Composed of 4 feeding modules, 2 rolling modules with laser and inspection module. This MSM creates your consumables out of single and pre-combined segments, allowing complex designs with up to 5 segments.
»ALL IN ONE« Consisting of a tobacco rod maker (VE and SE unit) using the well known M-technology plus an extra 4 feeding modules, 2 rolling modules with laser and inspection module. This gives you full control over the whole process and avoids intermediate buffering of the sensible tobacco rods. It‘s also the most efficient set-up in terms of operator staffing.
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CHANGING THE WORLD
This edition of HiLiTE also provides an opportunity to
meet our new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Günter
Schweitzer, and find out more about Consulting by
Hauni. We interview Nancy H. Hawley, Executive Vice
President of Operations at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, among other things, about the transforming
tobacco journey of her company.
And with articles about our virtually perfect cigar line
(p. 38), sensor concept (p. 32) and Primary Optimiza-
tion Management (p. 36), there is no shortage of infor-
mation about new Hauni solutions.
I hope you find this issue of HiLiTE a stimulating read!
Dr. Jürgen Heller
Member of the
Hauni Executive Board
Some things change the world – sometimes quite
literally. Flashes of inspiration, inventions, daring
experiments – our essay presents some of those
courageous, tenacious inventors and their revolution-
ary ideas that changed the world forever. We are facing
a similar situation in the tobacco industry right now.
The filter cigarette – the tobacco sector’s last great in-
vention – has already been around for decades. Now,
Tobacco Heating Products (THP) are radically changing
products, processes and production plants. Join us on
this exciting journey from p. 12.
We have also introduced some changes to HiLiTE
itself. The first new section – “Inside Technology” –
offers you deeper insights into fascinating high-tech
solutions. In the second – “What, where, why?” – we
address the issues currently shaping our industry.
46 Jellyfish: If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em
12 Tobacco Heating Products (THP) – powered by the new MSM Multi Segment Maker from Hauni
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32 SENSORS FOR THE FUTUREModular sensor concepts from Hauni enhance
both quality and flexibility.
34 A MATTER OF TRUSTData sharing is the fuel that drives the digital
revolution, and it requires trust.
36 DIGITAL TWINDigital solutions that save time and money, improve
transparency and increase efficiency.
38 A PERFECT RUNThe (almost) perfect cigar production line is a team
effort by Decouflé and Hauni.
41 NEW SECTION WHAT, WHERE, WHY?Don’t sensors just raise rejection rates?
HiLiTE answers frequently asked questions.
INNOVATION + RESPONSIBILITY
42 SOUL MACHINESResearchers believe that only emotional skills
can make robots truly smart and are working
on appropriate solutions.
46 GO JELLYJellyfish as microplastic filters, fertilizers or
materials for medical applications – and even
as a nutritious meal.
50 SMOKE ON THE WATERThe story behind one of the greatest
guitar riffs of all time.
03 EDITORIAL51 PREVIEW
COMPETENCE + VISIONS
06 A PASSION FOR PRODUCTIONHiLiTE portrait: Günter Schweitzer, Chief Operating
Officer (COO) at Hauni since September.
08 TALKING ABOUT REVOLUTIONSRevolutionary ideas that have changed industries,
our daily lives and even the global economy.
12 REVOLUTION IN THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY
Since the development of the filter cigarette, nothing
has altered the tobacco industry as profoundly as
Tobacco Heating Products (THP).
18 HAUNI WORLDWIDEUnited under a new name: Hauni Group /
Hauni Singapore celebrates its 20th anniversary.
20 FACTS & FIGURESAcoustic camera, granulate separator and upgrades
for PROTOS-M5/M8.
CHALLENGES + SOLUTIONS
22 TRANSFORMING TOBACCOHiLiTE interviews Nancy H. Hawley, Executive
Vice President of Operations at R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company.
26 CONSULTING BY HAUNIHauni advises clients on the best ways to optimize
their production processes based on its unique
industry expertise.
28 NEW SECTION INSIDE TECHNOLOGYThis time we look at the inspection unit for the
MSM Multi Segment Maker for maximum
modularity and flexibility.
30 BIG DATA – BIG CHANCEA Hauni project for the analysis of data and
development of services.
22 Interview with Nancy H. Hawley from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company CONTENTS
Günter Schweitzer, COO at Hauni 06
New modular sensor concepts 32
New section with focus on high-tech solutions from
Hauni – on page 28
The new Q&A section for our customers –
on page 41
Inside Technology
What, where, why?
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In September, GÜNTER SCHWEITZER took over the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Hauni. As a passionate production expert, he is just the right man for the growing challenges facing the production locations and the supply chain.
A PASSION FOR PRODUCTION
Anyone changing homes and jobs in the same
year as becoming a father for the first time and
renovating a listed building from the ground
up is not exactly the type to shy away from a
challenge. Even though his wife’s skills as a civil engineer
came in useful during the construction project, the year as
a whole proved to be ‘demanding’ for Günter Schweitzer.
A term that, coming from him, doesn’t sound negative.
More like his natural habitat.
In the meantime, things have moved on for him: the metal
lurgical engineer is no longer with his then employer,
Hilti AG. It is now six years since he and his by then family
of four came to Bergedorf. Initially COO of Körber Process
Solutions, he then headed the Secondary business unit
where he was responsible for the entire order fulfilment pro
cess from 2015, and from 2017 also for the manufacturing
network. In September 2018, Schweitzer took over the po
sition of COO for the Business Area Tobacco, a role in which
the passionate sportsman and wine collector is respon
sible for central purchasing, process management, Baltic
Metall technik, Hauni Hungaria and Secondary Order Fulfil
ment, as well as all operational functions within the Hauni
Group including improvement programs in the production
environment.
His close connection to production gives him a little re spite
from a working environment that is increasingly dominated
by offices and meeting rooms. Because if there’s one thing
Schweitzer is, it’s a production man. “I have a passion for
it”, says the 49yearold. “I like an atmosphere where
people can create things with their hands. This is where
value is added.” Schweitzer’s outlook was also majorly
influenced by his father, who provided for his family with
his trade as a roofer. It was at the construction sites he
worked on that the young Schweitzer took on his first jobs
as a schoolboy. His metallurgy studies then took him to
Aachen and Sydney. This was followed by postgraduate
studies in industrial engineering and a doctorate in plan
ning and organization at the Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen.
As a consultant and in senior corporate roles, his profes
sional career has taken him to Germany, England and
Liechtenstein – always in operations, and always lean.
In the environment of the current upheavals in the tobacco
industry, the knowledge gained from around 25 years of
experience stands the COO in good stead. For Hauni, this
environment means “enormously increased challenges
in terms of material supply, but also a shift in the cul
ture towards lean management and in our continuous
improvement process.” Particularly in the context of
Tobacco Heating Products (THP), Schweitzer sees this as
the biggest current challenge. “We generate a substan
tial share of our sales from customers who manufacture
such products – this is a major opportunity. To take ad
vantage of it, we need to significantly reduce our lead
times and at the same time develop in short cycles in a
highly volatile market.” There are tough chal
lenges ahead, particularly in the supply
chain and thus in Schweitzer’s area
of responsibility, so he naturally
feels at home, both in terms
of job satisfaction and the
challenges associated with
his role. =
...A keen sports enthu-siast and avid reader, Günter Schweitzer also pursues enology in his spare time to wind down from work.
THE SHIPPING CONTAINER
The freight aboard the SS Ideal X may have attracted lit-
tle attention when the tanker operated by the Pan-Atlantic
Steamship Company left the port of New York in April 1956,
but this scarcely does justice to the importance of its 58
metal crates.
This was the first container ship, and it revolutionized an entire
industry. Venturing an experiment with a specially developed
configuration, ship owner Malcom McLean had the truck-
sized, cargo-filled crates loaded onto the ship with cranes. In
those days, cargo ships were typically loaded and unloaded
by workers hauling pallets, sacks or bales onto and off the
ships for days or even weeks. With the new method, the
process took just a few hours and was consid-
erably cheaper: the entire stay of Ideal X in
the port costs 1,600 dollars, about 90
percent less than usual.
The idea of using containers was
not a new one at that time. For
decades, logistics experts had
been working on viable solu-
tions in countless conferenc-
es, but had failed to come up
with any because of the as-
sumed cost-benefit ratio.
THE ELECTRIC GUITAR
Like smoking today, the guitar first went electric 95 years
ago. The initial inspiration for this was a yearning for volume:
tired of being drowned out by the horns in their big bands
and plucking their chords unobtrusively in the background,
guitarists in the 1930s tried various ways of amplifying their
instruments electrically, some more bizarre than others.
Some fitted microphones into the sound holes or attached
components of telephone receivers onto their guitars.
The breakthrough was ultimately achieved by musician
George Beauchamp, without whom rock music would not
be what it is today, and Jimi Hendrix or Keith Richards
would have been unlikely to become famous. He had
been tinkering with his first electric guitars
since the 1920s, but the Texan inventor
was awarded the patent for an “elec-
tric string instrument” only after
sending a band along to play it
to the gentlemen from the pat-
ent office – the patent custo-
dians had until then assumed
that he had picked up the
sound with some kind of mi-
crophone – and not invented
a new instrument.
TALKING ABOUT REVOLUTIONSNothing ventured, nothing gained. To create REVOLUTIONARY INVENTIONS, inventors always require not only faith in their own idea, but also the courage to do something that has never been done – and which may therefore end in failure. Time and again, though they often have to endure ridicule, the perseverance and pioneering spirit shown by inven-tors changes individual industries, our everyday lives or even the global economy.
standard containers is currently the carrying capacity of the largest
container ship in the world, the OOCL
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before, where a turn of the torso
at the end of a fast, curved run-up
ensures that the athlete clears the
bar backwards.
Until his spectacular success in the form of
an Olympic record of 2.24 metres at the Mexico
Games in 1968, he raised one thing above all else: a laugh.
This was at least followed by recognition, but experts initially
assumed that the startling technique would fail to gain accep-
tance. They were wrong: just four years later, young 16-year-
old German Ulrike Meyfahrt jumped to a world record with the
Fosbury method at the Munich Olympic Games, and by the
end of the 1970s the Fosbury flop had already become the
standard among high jumpers. The world record rose by 16
centimetres by 1993 – a figure that would not have been pos-
sible with the old method. =
THE ZIP
Sought by genera tions of tailors and
fashion designers, it was finally found by
an engineer: the perfect solution for quick
fastening. Hooks, eyelets, laces and buttons – in
these fasteners, American engineer and dedicated inventor
Whitcomb Leonard Judson saw no solution to his problem,
namely the exertion the rather rotund Chicagoan had to put
into closing up his shoes. So he set out to find a more con-
venient and faster alternative. He presented his patented
solution at the World’s Fair in 1893: the first “clasp locker”,
which consisted of heavy metal chains with interlocking
hooks and sliders. A colonel in the U.S. Army took a liking to
Judson’s invention and provided the capital for a joint com-
pany: Universal Fastener Company advertised with “One pull
and you’re done”, although the clasp locker didn’t always do
what it was supposed to at first, sometimes opening by itself
and sometimes not at all.
This was not to change until Gideon Sundbäck, a Swede who
later emigrated to the United States, took up the idea and,
with the help of a band of textile with teeth, designed zips that
could be used easily and reliably and were also suitable for
clothing. In addition to the slider, the mechanical engineer also
added a mechanism allowing the teeth to fit into each other in
his fasteners, and his improvements ensured the first use of
zips by the military in suits for pilots and airmen.
THE FOSBURY FLOP
His coach Bernie Wagner advised him to join the circus. In-
stead, Richard “Dick” Douglas Fosbury leaped to gold in the
Olympic high jump. In many years of training, the 6-foot-3
American athlete had never succeeded in clearing a bar
higher than 1.60 metres face downward with the straddle
method or scissors jump that were usual at the time.
Unwilling to settle for this, the young engineering student
used his spatial imagination to try out new methods, ulti-
mately developing the “Fosbury flop” – a jump never seen
the port feared by Europeans failed to materialize – on the
contrary, ports are still booming today thanks to container
shipping. The largest container ship in the world today, the
OOCL Hong Kong, can carry up to 21,413 standard contain-
ers – but it is still only a further development of the Ideal X.
THE TIN CAN
Until McLean just
went ahead and
did it. The former
haulier invested in
a shipping company,
equipped four tankers
with fastenings for contain-
ers and had trucks and cranes
built that were suitable for transport-
ing them. Plying the seas between New York and Houston,
McLean’s ships were initially disregarded or sneered at.
Little by little, his business picked up pace, and he built big-
ger ships with more space for the containers. Other U.S.
shipping companies followed suit – won over to the idea by
the lower costs and significantly improved safety of goods at
sea. By the mid-1960s, there were already more than 170
container ships flying the U.S. flag.
In 1966, McLean managed the big leap to Europe when he
established a scheduled service there, although the conti-
nent was still sceptical about these "box ships" at the time.
In 1967, he took his ships to Asia and was commissioned
to supply the U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam. The death of
Nicolas Appert was a signed and sealed “benefactor of hu-
manity”, an honour received by the Frenchman for his in-
vention of airtight food preservation. This had come about
because, in the wars after the French Revolution, Napoleon
faced increasing difficulties in supplying his troops with food
during the campaigns, with soldiers dying of malnutrition on
a massive scale. The French Emperor therefore offered a
prize of 12,000 gold francs for a method to preserve food.
Appert solved the problem by sterilizing food in glass bot-
tles by heating them and then sealing them airtight. He put
the prize money into a factory where, just a short time later,
he was producing much less sensitive tin cans. In 1851,
ten years after Appert’s death, a 38-year-old can from his
factory was opened at the World’s Fair in London, where its
intact contents proved the revolutionary importance of the
manufacturer’s idea.
is how much the high jump limit increased over
time with the Fosbury flop: from previously 1.60 to today’s world record
of 2.45 metres.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison, the inventor who held
more than 1,093 U.S. patents and who
developed, among other things, the light
bulb and a forerunner of
the record player.
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TOBACCO HEATING PRODUCTS (THP) are the most profound change to the tobacco industry, its products, processes and production methods since the development of the filter cigarette in the middle of the last century.
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For decades, the tobacco industry continuously de-
veloped and refined its products, yet their essential
structure remained the same. Innovations focused
primarily on the area of the filter and variations in
cigarette dimensions. Developments in production machines
and processes focused on continuously optimizing quality,
reducing tobacco consumption and increasing production.
Pressing ahead with the search for new solutions
Since the turn of the millennium, the World Health Organiza-
tion (WHO) has increasingly targeted the health aspects of
smoking. A growing number of restrictions and regulations
have been imposed on the tobacco industry, and their impact
is being felt. Since 2015, global cigarette sales have been in
decline for the first time. This was a new situation for the ciga-
rette industry, which was prompted to embark on a search
for alternatives. The results included innovative developments
such as IQOS – a Tobacco Heating Product (THP) launched
in 2014. Manufacturers had already experimented with THP
in the past but now, for the first time, consumer demand
combined with the development of much more sophisticated
products and thus revolutionized the industry.
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Given the strong demand for innovative products, our wide-ranging expertise from the Primary to the finished product is a decisive advantage.”
Jörg Wittek, Executive Vice President
Engineering at Hauni
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THP know-how from Hauni
1. Primary for recon tobacco 4. Final combining2. Base rodmaking
Hauni offers a variety of pro-
cesses for the reconstituted
tobacco used in THP, from
paper recon, to cast or rolled
sheet, and granulate. “The vari-
ous recon products have very
different properties in terms
of their chemical and physical
consistency and their smoke
characteristics”, explains Jörg
Wittek. “The choice of pro-
cess depends on the product
characteristics required by the
customer. We can provide our
customers with the appropriate
Primary machines and services
for all variants. Our recon pro-
duction technology supports
conventional recon as well as
THP applications,” says Wittek,
noting that the most dynamic
area is currently the very cost-
effective rolled sheet segment.
For example, Hauni’s subsidi-
ary Garbuio has developed a
pilot plant for recon based on
extrusion and rolling technol-
ogy that aims for exceptionally
gentle drying and a very firm
product.
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With an extensive portfolio of new and proven solutions, Hauni covers the entire process chain for THP production –
from the Primary to the Secondary and logistics.
3. Pre-combining (optional)
For final combining, manu-
facturers can use the
newly developed MSM Multi
Segment Maker as well as
multifilter makers specially
modified for THP produc-
tion. “Using a combination
of technologies from the
PROTOS-M and KDF 5MF,
we have created a maker
with a flexible modular sys-
tem that will revolutionize the
THP market,” explains Jörg
Wittek. “Its modular principle
has independent functions
for combining up to five seg-
ments, tobacco rod forming,
tipping, laser perforation, in-
spection, cut and turn. This
not only allows it to manu-
facture extremely complex
products – the MSM is also
perfectly prepared for refin-
ing them in future.”
Hauni also supplies a wide
range of technologies for THP
base rod making. Currently,
most recon rods based on
fibre are produced using
various plain maker solutions
based on PROLAB, NANO or
PROTOS machines. “How-
ever, our range also includes
the newly developed Strip
Cut Maker for THP-specific
requirements in the tobacco
sector,” explains Wittek. “This
machine uses a track of paper
recon cut into narrow strips
which can then be continuous-
ly formed into a rod for THP
segments.” The KDF 5RT,
which manufactures perfectly
round paper tubes in the
non-tobacco segment, scores
highly in THP production.
“Filters in Tobacco Heating
Products contain recess tubes
that give the smoke space
to cool. Recess tubes made
on the KDF 5RT are gener-
ally suitable for all THP sticks
available on the market”, says
Wittek.
For pre-combining the
various THP filter segments,
Hauni offers a variety of tried-
and-tested multifilter makers,
which can be integrated into
THP production for manufac-
turing dual, triple, quadruple
and quintuple filters. For
example, the modular multi-
filter maker KDF 6MF LEAD
is designed for the produc-
tion of filters with up to four
segments and is capable of
manufacturing all the end
products on markets today.
Moreover, it is well-equipped
to handle new products in the
future. In addition, the proven
KDF 5MF is suitable for the
pre-combining of THP filter
segments. The flexible multi-
filter maker produces dual,
split dual, triple, recess and
cavity filters at an output rate
of up to 500 m/min.
Modular concepts, such as the MSM, are the perfect preparation for
future THP refinements.” Jörg Wittek, Executive Vice President
Engineering at Hauni
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Paradigm shift needs new machines
THP not only taste and look different from classic cigarettes,
they also function differently. The production processes dif-
fer, too. This creates completely new challenges for manu-
facturers and suppliers like Hauni. The highly volatile THP
market is changing constantly – resulting in exceptionally
rapid cycles for new products. Nobody may yet be able to
predict their long-term success with any accuracy, but every
single one of these products is determined to conquer new
markets. Manufacturers have to adapt their marketing and
production strategies quickly to keep up with changing de-
mand. And their partners have to support them with new
production solutions and services.
Investment security counts
Ideally, these new machines should offer a high degree of
flexibility. “To achieve maximum investment security, we
are using modular concepts that can be adapted quickly
to new innovations – including the ideas we haven’t even
imagined yet,” says Jörg Wittek, Executive Vice President
Engineering at Hauni. Due to the sheer range of new de-
velopments, the individual technologies are very individual.
“There are hardly any ‘off-the-peg’ solutions in this young
market. We are developing the solutions in partnership with
our customers,” says Wittek. “Depending on their require-
ments, we largely work with ready-to-use guidelines or ad-
vise our customers when they begin the design process for
their new products. In any case, we design the machines
to function perfectly, even in a future production plant with
currently unknown specifications.”
Experience shortens time-to-market
In the extremely fast-moving THP market, there is no time for
failed experiments and multi-year development phases for
end products. Nor for the machines and processes required
to manufacture them. “Unlike new developments in the field
of classic cigarettes, changes to THP affect more than just
the filter or diameter,” explains Wittek. “We have to adapt the
entire process chain, from the Primary to the finished prod-
uct. Achieving seamless integration of the individual produc-
tion steps to ensure smooth and efficient processes requires
extremely experienced suppliers with excellent know-how in
all areas.” Hauni brings its profound expertise, among other
things, to bear in its extensive consulting and technology
services for THP. These offer support for both the products
and the manufacturing processes.
Solutions from A to Z
With an extensive portfolio of proven machines and new
products developed especially for THP, Hauni covers every
THP production requirement from the Primary to logistics.
This range of special logistics solutions tailored to THP
production includes VENTIS – a highly flexible first-in-first-
out reservoir for linking makers and packers. In addition to
traditional filter and cigarette boxes, VENTIS can also be
used with boxes for special products, such as THP. These
guarantee the best possible protection for very short prod-
ucts. The FILTROMAT-F features a new sending principle
designed specifically for exceptionally heavy filters and is
ideal for the new THP.
Revolutions change processes
The development of these products still has some way to
go – that is in the nature of a revolution. At times of radical
change, nobody can be certain which concepts will prevail
in the long term and what further innovations lie in store.
But we can be certain that time-to-market is currently the
most important issue. “That changes the way we work as
well. The current situation we have to work much faster
than we do on new machines for long-established prod-
ucts,” says Dr. Hans-Heinrich Müller, Head of Product Man-
agement Cigarette at Hauni. “We can only get faster if we
adapt our internal workflows and cooperation with custom-
ers to these new conditions. So it’s full steam ahead for
THP development.” =
Three questions for Dr. Hans-Heinrich Müller,
Head of Product Management Cigarette.
Will these new products also revolutionize the
ways we work with customers?
Hans-Heinrich Müller: They significantly increase the coop-
eration requirements in terms of time-to-market and innovation.
Regardless of whether we are implementing our customers’
concepts or providing detailed consulting services in the early
stages of product development – it's all about speed. And that
can only work if we maintain ongoing and very close partner-
ships with our customers.
What does this mean for Hauni’s development teams?
Hans-Heinrich Müller: When we started working on THP de-
velopment, we discovered that we were not optimally positioned
to cope with such a fast-moving market and had to change the
way we work. For some years now, Hauni has been deploying
elements from the Scrum method. Short decision-making paths
and close contact with ‘internal customers’ from our technology
and market departments enable us to make decisions faster.
Regular meetings with the company management and reviews
with all stakeholders have an integrative effect, reduce the effort
involved in coordination and boost motivation.
Does that mean that the processes change, too?
Hans-Heinrich Müller: Our development process has
proven itself over many decades. It is very structured and time-
consuming with a clear focus on performance and high quality.
It assumes the objective is to build monolithic machines for
producing large quantities. Since 2014, we have reconsidered
this model in favor of a more flexible approach based on
modular concepts. We work with agile methods in which the
team decides which step is most relevant to achieving the
aims of the project at any point in time.
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Hybrid products
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Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH
Dubai Branch
Hauni Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. Shah Alam/Selangor
Hauni Singapore Pte. LtdSingapore
Hauni Far East Ltd Kunming
Hauni Far East LtdWanchai - Hong Kong
Hauni Trading (Shanghai) Co. LtdShanghai
Garbuio (Shanghai) Trading Company Limited, Shanghai
Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH Korea Branch
Hauni Japan Co. LtdTokyo
Hauni do Brasil Ltda. São Paulo
Hauni Richmond, Inc.Richmond
Garbuio Inc.Richmond
Hauni South Africa Pty. Ltd
Sodim SAS Orléans
Decouflé s.à.r.l. Paris
Garbuio Ltd. Winchester
Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH Hamburg
Borgwaldt KC/Flavor GmbH Hamburg
OOO Hauni St PetersburgSt Petersburg
Hauni Polska Sp. z o.o. Warsaw
Hauni Hungaria GmbHPécs
Garbuio S.p.A. Treviso
Hauni Teknik Hizmetler Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi, Konak/Izmir
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ALL FOR ONE: THE HAUNI GROUP
Customers know the individual brands Hauni,
Garbuio, Decouflé, Borgwaldt, Borgwaldt Flavor
and Sodim as part of the strong community of
companies in the Business Area Tobacco within
the Körber Group. “As a leading global provider of
technologies and technical services for the interna-
tional tobacco industry, we harness our expertise
across company boundaries and work together to
develop solutions that meet our customers’ needs.
With a new name for our group of companies,
we are now making this plainly visible”, explains
Dr. Jürgen Heller, Chief Sales Officer at Hauni. “With
around 4,500 employees, the Hauni Group is repre-
sented in more than 20 locations worldwide.”
20 YEARS OF HAUNI SINGAPORE
In 1999, Hauni opened a sales and service office in
Singa pore to take the company closer to its cus-
tomers in Southeast Asia. After much deliberation,
Singapore was chosen to be the site of Hauni’s
branch office in this growing region due to its
unique and strategic location.
Today, the initial team of five has grown to 54 em-
ployees from eight nations, serving more than 180
customers from 19 countries. In order to serve
the diverse customer base in the region, team
Hauni Singapore is comprised of many nation-
alities, including Bangladeshi, Chinese, Filipino,
German, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani and
Singaporean.
“Over the past 20 years, we have closely fol-
lowed the development of our customers and
their markets. During this period, many of
them have come a long way from their begin-
nings in conventional cigarette production to
state-of-the-art facilities,” says Patrick Pung,
Managing Director at Hauni Singapore. “This
close cooperation also shapes our current activi-
ties concerning future development such as smart
manufacturing or THP.” =
We think globally, we act locally. Our growing staff and our subsidaries operate where our customers are located, right there IN THE MARKETPLACE. This policy allows us to respond promptly to our clients’ requirements.
HAUNIWORLDWIDE
THE HAUNI GROUP
The acoustic camera – not a contradiction in
terms but a solution used by Hauni for tracking
down unwanted noises. The device intelligently
combines sounds and images to pinpoint the
precise location of the disturbance. The acoustic camera
is set up in front of the machine, just like a normal film
camera. But, instead of recording the machine, its sen-
sors measure sound waves wherever the machine is nor
running properly or sound insulation is insufficient.
With an array of 30 directional microphones, it achieves
this far more accurately than a human being. “We could
never perceive sounds this accurately with our ears,”
says Adam Budde, who is responsible for the “acoustic
camera” project at Hauni. “The sound waves require a
different length of time to travel from the source to each
of the 30 microphones in the array. We use this delay
between these signals to calculate the angle and thus lo-
cate the source. The software then displays the location
of the loudest point as a video.” Conventional source lo-
calization using sound field mapping required a number
of individual measurements to be performed at different
points in time. Now, the acoustic camera can visualize
the source of the noise faster and in real time – a great
advantage when a noise has to be located quickly dur-
ing Hauni’s manufacturing processes or in a customer’s
production line. =
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Granulate separator for FILTROMAT
Obsolescence PROTOS-M5 / M8
Upgrade for the control system: TIP C PR 200
from Hauni for the PROTOS-M5 and M8 – replaces
the CX1020 control PC installed in older machines
with state-of-the-art technology. The CX2020 control
PC offers impressively fast data exchange and short
loading times. It is compatible with the latest VISU-PC
627D and permits the integration of innovative func-
tions, such as the new glue sensor or ECO Energy
Control and Optimization.
Upgrade for the VISU-PC: TIP C PR 210 from
Hauni offers an upgrade to the new VISU-PC 627D
for all PROTOS-M5 and M8 machines with a CX2020
control PC. The predecessor models – 627C, 627B
and 620 – are obsolete and, for the most part, no
longer available as spare parts. Hauni recommends
upgrading to VISU-PC 627D in order to ensure long-
term availability of spare parts and minimize the risk
of unplanned downtime. The new VISU-PC can be
combined with the IT Security Package and is identi-
cal with the VISU installed in the latest M-generation.
It offers significantly faster loading times as well as
more memory and hard disk space (SSD).
When filters are shipped with a high proportion
of granulate, there is an increased contamination
risk for the FILTROMAT. This, in turn, increases
the risk of machine downtime and loss of quality.
The FILTROMAT 1S can now be retrofitted with the
TIP L FS 170 granule separator, which separates
and extracts loose particles using air turbulence.
The granulate separator not only ensures that prod-
uct quality remains high and the machine functions
reliably but also reduces wear in the filter pipe.
FACTS & FIGURES
A camera that hears with its eyes
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ny in 1984 as a staff engineer and
has held a number of positions,
including Senior Vice President
of Operations, Vice President of Manufactur-
ing, Senior Manager of Process and Transition
Planning working as a liaison between market-
ing and manufacturing, Director of Tobacco
Processing, Senior Director of Manufacturing
Engineering, Senior Director of Making and
Packing Operations and Senior Director of
Strategy and Supply Chain Planning.
What are your most important tasks as
Executive Vice President of Operations
at RAI’s subsidiary, R.J. Reynolds Tobac-
co Company?
There’s a famous anecdote about John F.
Kennedy touring a NASA facility and coming
across a janitor. JFK asked the janitor what his
job was, and the man answered proudly, “I’m
putting a man on the moon, Mr. President!”
In the same way, my job as Executive Vice
President of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com-
pany and every job at the RAI group is to
transform tobacco.
It just so happens that I do it as a member
of the leadership team that sets our strate-
gic direction toward this long-term objective:
I especially lead the Operations organization
to deliver against the strategic imperatives
we identify – from product development to
manufacturing oversight to safety to manag-
ing our relationships with outstanding sup-
pliers like Hauni. Apart from that we focus
on developing the talent and capabilities of
the people within our organization to ensure
we maintain an engaged workforce that is
focused on producing high-quality products,
both traditional and next-generation.
R. J. Reynolds has positioned itself as an
innovator in the sector. How does that
affect the area of operations?
I am proud to be part of an organization that
sets a Transforming Tobacco agenda well
Interview with NANCY H. HAWLEY, Executive Vice President of Operations at R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY since October 2015.
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Nancy H. Hawley, Executive Vice
President of Operations at R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company
I am proud to be part of an organization that set a Transforming Tobacco agenda well before it was a popular soundbite in the industry.”
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before it was a popular sound-
bite in the industry. Operations
plays a critical role in realizing this
vision, as do all functions at Reynolds.
To achieve our goal of Transforming Tobacco,
we must be able to deliver to the consumer the highest-
quality Next Generation Products. This includes develop-
ing a commercialization strategy to source or manufacture
these new products and deliver them to the marketplace so
that the consumer has a choice. Of course, we must also
ensure that we manufacture traditional products extremely
efficiently and in the same quality our consumers expect so
we can free up funds for investment in these transformative
offerings.
Ensuring this quality and efficiency, in turn, depends not
only on identifying and attracting the right talent and nec-
essary skills in-house, but also on developing and making
the most of strategic relationships with world-class external
partners like Hauni.
and specifically, with the global focus on industry 4.0
and factory digitalization, what is the impact on the
industry with regard to machine connectivity and data
acquisition?
As I’ve indicated, Hauni’s support is absolutely essential to
our achievement of two RJRT strategic imperatives: Achiev-
ing peak efficiency and profitability to free up resources for
investment in our transformation agenda, on the one hand,
and providing our consumers with best-in-class and afford-
able products that meet and even exceed their expectations
on the other.
The availability of high-precision, digitalized, connected
smart manufacturing provides even more visibility into pro-
cesses and therefore even greater efficiency. We’re excited
about the possibilities as we move into the future
with Hauni and together continue to deliver
high-quality products to “the boss”, our
consumers, while advancing our vision
that may potentially change the lives
of millions of smokers. =
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Tobacco Heating Products (THP) are currently growing
in importance in many countries. Can you describe
how this is specifically affecting the American mar-
ket and tell us how you see the trend progressing in
future? How do THPs align with RJRT’s strategy of
transforming tobacco?
RJRT’s leadership in transforming tobacco is demonstrated
by our pioneering innovation of the first Tobacco Heating
Product, Premier, which entered the marketplace three whole
decades ago, and Hauni was right there as an essential part-
ner in that effort. Although it didn’t meet with great commercial
success – admittedly, an understatement – we’ve kept at it
and are well-positioned for leadership in this space. We have
the only THP in the market in the United States with Eclipse and
recently received FDA clearance for an improved version of that
product. Once again, Hauni has played a role in helping us
to commercialize this new version. Alongside our new parent
company BAT with its Glo product, we are delighted with our
opportunities in this segment.
The strategy of our transformation agenda is to provide smok-
ers with a wide range of inspiring, potentially reduced-risk prod-
ucts. RAI's tobacco operating companies and BAT now have a
broad portfolio of quality, innovative products, including vapor
technologies, Tobacco Heating Products and Oral Products,
such as snus and moist snuff. We started our Transforming
Tobacco journey many years ago. We are proud of our prog-
ress so far and are committed to continue leading the industry
in tobacco harm reduction.
How has the integration of RJRT into British American
Tobacco affected your relationship with Hauni?
Our integration into the global BAT business has only made
our longtime strategic partnership with Hauni stronger – a re-
lationship which not only concerns our conventional cigarette
business but stems back to the earliest days of our trans-
formation agenda, including the development of Premier
and other THPs. In fact, Hauni has had its own global rela-
tionship with BAT for years. So, we haven’t skipped a beat
in our working relationship, which is more vital than ever in
fulfilling our strategy.
R.J. Reynolds and Hauni Richmond have a rich shared
history. How does this partnership help RJRT achieve its
goals? What role does new generation machinery play
within this relationship and the combustible landscape –
Nancy H. Hawley earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a master’s degree in business
administration from Wake Forest University.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is the second largest tobacco company in
the United States. The company’s cigarette brands generate about one third of
cigarette sales in the United States.
››We’re excited about the possibilities as we move into the future with Hauni and together continue to deliver high- quality products.”
We are committed to continue leading the industry in tobacco harm reduction.”
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the impact of interactions between equipment,
processes and tobacco varieties on the final
product. Another aspect of Hauni’s approach
is therefore to study the processes into which
the machines have been integrated, e.g. optimizing
workflows between the lines or retro fitting machines with
state-of-the-art technology.
Save time and money
Marco Castro is confident that Consulting by
Hauni pays dividends for customers in several
ways. “They not only save time and money
by optimizing products and processes. They
also benefit from the know-how transfer and
process guidance offered by our consultants.
Moreover, cost sharing, risk sharing and sales on
performance help to minimize project risk – as do the
data proven upgrades we use to demonstrate the
performance of the project before our customers
spend any money.”
As Semler explains, a demand-driven consult-
ing strategy which helps customers to identify
weaknesses and optimize their production
processes to match their strategies signifi-
cantly accelerates problem solving and the
optimization process. “Detailed know-how of
all the processes, their interactions, limits, ma-
chinery and raw materials is being lost. Bringing this
knowledge into your company through a partner with a
deep understanding of production processes in the tobac-
co industry accelerates problem solving and the implemen-
tation of optimization projects. It also protects you against
time-consuming, expensive and failed experiments.” =
Consulting by Hauni combines unrivalled knowl-
edge in the fields of tobacco processing, ciga-
rette and cigar manufacturing, filter production,
logistics, automation and digital tools. Hauni is
thus one of the few partners in the tobacco industry that
offers solutions for every area of tobacco processing and
cigarette manufacturing.
No abstract concepts
“Our approach is not about abstract concepts but under-
standing our customers and their individual challenges,
meet 100 percent of their needs,” says Castro.
“We focus on helping customers to express
their aspirations through critical aspects of the
process, such as machinery, personnel or pro-
cess parameters. We collect this input together
with the customer during audits, workshops and data
analyses. We then use it to create customized op-
timization projects for their factories, products,
tobacco and processes.”
Achieve full production potential
Every consultation aims to help customers to
achieve their full production potential. Con-
sulting by Hauni draws on the many distinc-
tive and complementary competencies avail-
able within the Hauni Group. The process inspires
new ideas and creates fertile ground for customer-
and situation-specific solutions. Data acquisition is
the basis for optimizing production processes.
“Most of our customers already collect plenty
of data. One of our most important tasks is
to turn this data into added value,” explains
Timo Semler, Process Principle Consultant.
“Unlike management consultancies or solu-
tion and platform providers, we offer consult-
ing services from within the unique environ-
ment of the tobacco industry – with more than
seven decades of knowledge about the sector, its
machines, processes and products. So we can offer
the optimum combination of statistical tools and tobacco
expertise for correlating the relevant data.”
Just as there is not always a need for new data, so it is not al-
ways necessary to buy new, more efficient machines in order
to optimize a production line. The focus is usually on maxi-
mizing the potential of existing equipment and understanding
strategies and philosophies,” explains Marco Castro, Head
of Hauni Consulting. “This enables us to provide active sup-
port and help them to achieve their goals with customized
concepts tailored to their unique situations.” In order to find
useful, cost-efficient solutions that are ready for immediate
use, Hauni Consulting takes an integrative approach in which
the consultants work together with the customer to develop
solutions.
“We speak the same language as our customers and have
a deep understanding of their requirements. As a result, we
can develop projects and implementation techniques that
With its comprehensive range of consulting services, Hauni aims to OPTIMIZE THE
ENTIRE PRODUCTION PROCESS. As a key player in the tobacco industry, Hauni’s advice is based on its large network and unique position within the sector.
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Save time& money
Payment on performance
Needs-based consulting
INSIDE TECHNOLOGY
VR
Watch a fascinating animation with the HiLiTE App for mobile devices.
Hauni has developed an inspection unit for its MSM MULTI SEGMENT MAKER – featuring a standardized design for maximum modularity and flexibility.
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The inspection unit offers the option of integrating up to three
additional drums with a maximum of seven sensor modules
into the MSM inspection module. It is an investment in the
future. Demand for sensors is growing rapidly – especially
in the area of Tobacco Heating Products (THP) – and nobody today
knows how they will look in the future. The new inspection unit has an
easy-to-use, modular design that simplifies the process of adding new
sensors: until now, technicians first had to search for a suitable place in
the machine to install the additional sensors and then, potentially, per-
form a time-consuming rebuild. Now, the installation of additional, fully
integrated, standard or customised sensors in the MSM inspection
unit no longer poses any problems. Drum axles for the sensors can
be quickly added to or removed from the machine. And that’s it – the
sensors are ready for immediate use. The switch cabinet is configured
to provide space for all new sensor technologies as standard. Using a
patent-pending technology, the product passes around the drums and
is scanned by the sensors from both sides in the inspection unit. This
differs from the approach taken by conventional single sensors. An in-
novative feature here is that the top drum passes the product to the next
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Standardized mecha-nical and electrical interfaces enable each sensor system to be positioned in any location.
SENSOR SYSTEMS
The sensor systems in the in-spection unit can be combined flexibly to inspect all final prod-ucts and ensure they meet Hauni’s high quality standards.
INSPECTION UNIT
The inspection unit is located in a clearly visible position in the machine to allow easy viewing by the operator.
DRUMS IN OPERATION
Depending on requirements, the test unit can be operated with up to three drums.
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Stop analytics
Hauni’s Big Data Project starts by researching the causes of
machine stops. “Our assistance system helps to identify the
root causes of problems by analyzing stop-related data from
a very large database rather basing a diagnosis on personal
experience. It recommends measures that ensure shorter
repair times and prevents downtimes from occurring again,”
says Marc Stahl, Project Manager Big Data Analytics.
When a machine stops, it displays a process malfunction as
the cause. For example, this could be a rod break in a ciga-
rette maker and therefore have about 30 possible causes.
The new Hauni system aims to alert the operator to the spe-
cific cause, thus enabling them to identify the correct remedy.
This saves time because the machine is not started repeat-
edly with the same error. “As a result, we are increasing the
mean time between failure.
But we are also reducing the mean time to repair and the
number of rejects because several hundred cigarettes are
rejected as start and stop waste after each restart,” ex-
plains Stahl. “This combination of analysis and expertise
shows why, as the world’s leading supplier of solutions to
the international tobacco industry, we have entered the
field of big data analytics – an area that is otherwise primarily
the domain of software companies. Software giants have
endless capacity and expertise in artificial intelligence
design – but they don’t have our technical insights into to-
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APROTOS-M5 generates up to 200,000 data points
per second – most of this information is required
by the deepest levels of the machine controls and
overwritten by the program after a single use. Al-
though these data can be made available for other purposes,
until now nobody had considered doing so. Ralf Heikens, Head
of Innovation Center Automation Technology, recognized that
it was time for a change. “By linking our know-how with big
data analyses of machinery in different locations around the
world, we can help our customers to use their machines much
more efficiently,” he explains. “This allows them to increase
Anomaly detection
Hauni’s anomaly detection system is designed to improve
the production process in terms of efficiency, production
waste and quality. It detects anomalies in the machine
data, reports them and provides additional information as a
re c ommended action appropriate for the target group. Since
these analyses and statements are based on a broad range
of data and experience, rather than the professional evalua-
tion of a single person in the production process, they bring
together almost the full spectrum of experience available in
various production departments and combine it with Hauni’s
know-how. The result is the optimum solution based on
up-to-the-minute industry data and expertise. This saves
money by eliminating the need for complex and time-
consuming error analysis by the individual company.
Parameter optimization
In day-to-day production, parameter settings for individual
makers can vary widely – even for identical or similar prod-
ucts and machines – because they are often adjusted manu-
ally based on the individual operator’s experience. Taking this
into consideration, Hauni’s parameter optimization system
focuses equally on increasing machine efficiency and prod-
uct quality, as well as reducing maker stops and waste. It
uses production experience accumulated over many years
to find and recommend the most successful parameter set-
tings for similar machines and brands.
output, efficiency and quality, as well as reduce material waste
and resource consumption.”
In order to produce measurable results as quickly as possible,
Hauni has entered into a development partnership with the
Fraunhofer Big Data Alliance and established a new big data /
data science team. This group works efficiently with machine
software developers and process experts, deploying an agile
approach based on use cases. In addition to customer-specific
applications, Hauni has focused on three principal areas and de-
veloped concrete solutions for them: anomaly detection, param-
eter optimization and stop analytics.
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Objectives of big data analytics
The vision is to create highly automated, self-learning machines. Hauni is
already developing specific applications that combine big data analysis with
the company’s unique knowledge of the industry and its machinery.
Anomalydetection
Exploratory data analysis
Bench-marking
tested tested ongoing
Vision
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Parameteroptimization
Recommendedoptimal parameter
settings
Stopanalytics
Root cause analytics
Action recommendations
Self-learningmachine
Automated parameter settings
Autonomous machine
Time / Challenges
Additionaluse cases
To be discussed with our
customers
ith its new sensor concepts, Hauni enables
a machine’s sensor technology to be modi-
fied and extended at any time. Moreover, these
changes are much simpler to implement than
with conventional machine-specific solutions. The de-
mands of continuously accelerating product development
cycles mean that the tobacco industry needs flexible solu-
tions more than ever before. After all, when configuring a
new maker, it is often difficult for the manufacturer to predict
what its machine will be producing in a few years’ time.
One thing that is certain, however, is that the sensors
of today and tomorrow will continue to play a key role
in boosting product quality and optimizing production.
“Modular concepts are the solution,” says Niels Ruge,
Group Manager Sensors & AREO at Hauni Engineering,
with conviction.
“With sensor concepts, such as EYEPORT and ICPS,
we are investing in modular sensor technologies that can
be used in many different Hauni makers and adapted
to new requirements extremely quickly.”
sensor systems, which are suit-
able for use with the KDF-M,
KDF 6LEAD, PROTOS 90E/ER
and customer-specific THP so-
lutions, to customers all over the
world.
Prepared for new test methods
The same applies to EYEPORT, the flexibly configurable
measuring system launched in 2016. This universal rod
sensor system provides a wide variety of measurements
immediately before the tobacco or filter rods are cut.
“EYEPORT is already available for use with the first and
second generations of the PROTOS-M as well as the
KDF 5 and 6 – including the KDF-M multifilter maker and
PROTOS 90E. And we are constantly working to extend
its use to other machines,” says Ruge.
“EYEPORT offers everything we need to respond flex-
ibly to our customers’ wishes. As well as standard func-
tions, such as optimized weight and diameter measure-
ment, we have already integrated new functions, such
as capsule measurement in filter production and optical
surface inspection (ORIS). The system’s modular de-
sign dramatically reduces the product time-to-market
required for new measurement functions.” =
Flexible system for optical
fault detection
The successful ICPS sensor
range is one of two modular sys-
tems that Hauni has been using for
the past two years. The Image Cap-
turing and Processing System is based
on high-resolution cameras and is the world’s
first series solution to offer 100 percent secure optical
online monitoring of this kind. “This is particularly relevant
in the growth areas of special filters and THP products,”
explains Ruge. “The ICPS cameras are not only able to
continuously inspect sheet materials, such as sheet to-
bacco and filter or cigarette paper, for defects. They can
also provide optical monitoring of the front surfaces of
filter rods or cigarettes at a speed of up to 10,000 pieces
per minute – and up to 20,000 pieces with two-lane ciga-
rette machines, such as the PROTOS-M8.”
The basic system can be modified using a variety of
cameras that are easy to exchange. The sensor is
placed either in the front area of the machine for mate-
rial inspection or at the end to monitor the quality of the
finished product. Since ICPS is fully integrated into the
machine, the system also allows individual products to
be ejected. So far, Hauni has sold more than 100 of these
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SENSORS FOR THE FUTURE
ICPS can be easily adapted to the
required specifications. It assures
quality by testing and accurately
rejecting incorrect intermediate
and end products.
EYEPORT is a flexible, modular rod
sensor system. It enhances product
quality and production flexibility in
cigarette and filter makers.
Universal sensor concepts reduce the costs for spare parts and training.”Niels Ruge, Group Manager
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The Leading Standard
ISO 27001 is the leading international
stan dard for Information Security Manage-
ment Systems (ISMS). It offers organiza-
tions of all types and sizes clear
guidelines for planning,
implementing, monitoring
and improving their infor-
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protection.
standard ISO 27001 for the protection of corporate data.
This describes the requirements for setting up, implement-
ing, operating and optimizing a documented information
security management system. “We started the ISO 27001
certification process for our big data analytics services
in March 2018. This will be completed after the audit in
August 2019,” says Sahlke.
“We believe that we can build trust through security. That’s
the reason we decided to undertake this complex process.
We are documenting our data processing activities within
the framework of the ISO certification. This allows us to
identify risks, minimize them and ensure that our custom-
ers can see us for what we are – their expert partner for
the efficient and secure transfer, processing, storage and
analysis of data, and a provider of applications that can
transform their data into value.” =
Machinery and equipment in the tobacco indus-
try generate huge volumes of data – from the
delivery of the raw materials to the production
processes and the final quality control. Howev-
er, most of this priceless resource still goes unused despite its
enormous potential for enhancing overall equipment effective-
ness (OEE) in production. With its new big data analytics solu-
tions, Hauni is continuously seeking out new ways to open
this treasure chest of data – for the benefit of its customers.
“We are working on a lot of new applications and services that
use big data analytics, for example, to process large volumes
of data from our customers’ production plants. We use com-
plex algorithms to find the optimum machine parameters for
their specific manufacturing processes or significantly reduce
unwanted machine downtime,” says Jan Sahlke, Chief Infor-
mation Security Officer at Hauni.
When developing such solutions, Hauni is constantly aware
that the foundation for evaluating this machine data is the trust
of the customers who are willing to share their information in
the first place. “We have to work hard to earn this trust. Pro-
tecting our customers’ sensitive data is our top priority,” says
Jan Sahlke. “To do this, we focus on identifying methods to
secure data connections and provide various security features
along the data stream from the source to the application.
These begin with IT security packages on Hauni computers
that block unwanted network access, malicious USB devices,
etc. Firewalls, encryption and VPN tunnels secure network
transmissions and are backed up by secure data storage.”
Transparency for trust
During the implementation of all its IT security measures,
Hauni follows the guidelines laid out by the international
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PROCESSES to build its partners’ trust.
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To generate the promised level of opti-
mization, systems like PROM depend
on a constant supply of relevant produc-
tion data. In other words, they depend on
a high level of trust and partnership between
Hauni and its customers. Hauni contributes the
full spectrum of its know-how. “We sit down with the
customer and define the framework for the partnership,”
says Siedhoff. “In every case, PROM is precisely tailored to the cus-
tomer’s needs. For example, if the customer doesn’t want the sys-
tem to change settings autonomously, we will take this into account
and simply communicate the suggested values to the operator.”
Starting with a minimum viable product
From the moment Hauni presented its initial concept, PROM
attracted strong interest from customers. Since then, Hauni has
refined the tool and can now work together with customers on
developing a “minimum viable product”. This will lay the foun-
dations for future advancements. “Our calculations suggest that
optimally adjusted equipment could increase tobacco yields by
up to five percent,” says Siedhoff. “For a plant processing three
tonnes of tobacco per hour, this would generate annual cost sav-
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PROM is responsible for managing this
data exchange. The tool continuously re-
cords and evaluates data. When it identi-
fies potential for improvements, it suggests
possible optimization strategies. For example,
if the ambient temperature in the Primary chang-
es during the day, PROM will propose adjustments
to the parameter settings for the production process. This
guarantees a consistently high quality product. “The system can ad-
just the machine settings autonomously, if this has been agreed with
the customer in advance,” explains Siedhoff. If the system detects
problems in the Secondary, for example, it will respond to them and
suggest corrective mea sures to the operator in the Primary. More-
over, PROM can simulate and evaluate the effects of changes in the
process before they are made. Previously, this was only possible
after expensive testing.
Know-how that never leaves
The operator receives suggested actions and check lists, e.g. on
their mobile device, which provide tailored support in the specific
situation. This is where PROM has the potential to solve an age-
old problem: people get older and eventually retire – often taking
their expertise with them. PROM will never retire.
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DIGITAL TWIN
The PROM simulation is a virtual testing
environment for changes to process parameters.
If the results show a clear benefit, the settings
are changed. This helps to turn natural tobacco
into cigarettes of consistently high quality.
With PROM (Primary Optimization Management),
a tool based on the idea of the digital twin has
been developed. This is a virtual environment
that models the customer’s production line using
real-time data. The digital platform is constantly fed with data
from ongoing plant operations – including information that spans
the divide between Green Leaf Threshing (GLT), Primary and
Secondary.
These three areas run separately during the cigarette manufactur-
ing process. “The closer the data exchange between the three ar-
eas, the better our chances of finding the optimum machine settings
when conditions change,” says Sven Siedhoff, Head of Automation.
PROM is the digital reproduction of a
Primary processing plant. The virtual pro-
duction line has significant advantages:
• save time & money
• full process transparency
• increased efficiency
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During a perfect eight-hour non-stop run, the Nano-C achieved a
total waste level of max. 0.11 percent during the acceptance run.
Decouflé’s motto “Your
business is unique – so
are our solutions” clear-
ly positions Hauni’s
French subsidiary as a provider
of tailor-made products and
services in the tobacco market.
The challenge from its customer
was clear: design a new cigar
maker that is capable of manu-
facturing three different products on
the same line. It certainly sounded like
a job for Decouflé – and its partners in the
Hauni Group. Sodim and Borgwaldt contributed
their know-how in the field of measurement technology and
Borgwaldt Flavor its expertise in flavors, while Hauni sup-
plied the special subassemblies and logistics.
“Team work was the most important factor in the success
of our project,” says Arnaud Masson, Project Manager at
Decouflé. Its success is underlined by some remarkable
statistics: during the official final acceptance by the cus-
tomer, the revised and upgraded cigar line completed a
perfect, non-stop run of eight hours with an efficiency of
99.92 percent.
Extensive to-do list
In addition to the “three-product
requirement”, the developers’
to-do list contained further chal-
lenges. The time required for
product format changes – the
line produces cigars with and
without shaped heads, or with
a shaped head of a different di-
ameter – should be approx. five
hours. And conversion to other to-
bacco varieties should be completed
in just two hours. Moreover, it should be
capable of making up to 1,200 cigars per min-
ute and feature integrated weight control and flavor spray-
ing functions. The design specifications also included an
automatic tray filling function and a more compact overall
footprint.
The special challenges of the project were quick to emerge:
the different properties of the threshed tobacco – sometimes
with, sometimes without flavor – and the recon binders used
instead of paper. The special formats, which differ greatly from
those of standard cigarettes or cigarillos, required a high level
of attention from everyone involved in the project.
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THE (ALMOST) PERFECT CIGAR PRODUCTION LINE – Decouflé and Hauni teamed up to achieve this ambitious goal. The solution was developed as a cooperation between several companies in the Hauni Group and delivers both flexibility and efficiency.
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In today’s increasingly digital production environ-
ments, sensors play a vital role as links between
the materials and the controlling systems. They
are the key to unlocking the full potential of modern
industrial production facilities.
NO DATA, NO SMART FACTORY
And no data without sensors. Sensors play a central
role as the interface between the real and the digital
worlds. This is because current and future systems for
controlling, interpreting and thus regulating production
systems are ineffective if they do not have accurate
base data generated by sensors.
PRECISION REDUCES REJECTION RATES AND MATERIAL CONSUMPTION
A powerful, sensor-based monitoring system is now
fundamental to virtually all measures for enhancing the
performance of production plants. These measures
can be implemented by using different types of sen-
sors: for example, sensors that serve control systems
directly in the machine, thus helping to reduce tobacco
consumption, or sensors that act as detectors for
problems in areas upstream of the production chain.
Sensors are vital. Without them it is impossible to
Time and time again, Hauni customers question whether the use of sensors
makes sense: do we really need them? Don’t they just increase rejection rates?
Should we inspect everything, simply because we can?
HAUNI EXPLAINS WHY IT BELIEVES THAT SENSORS ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ANY MODERN PRODUCTION SYSTEM:
WHAT, WHERE, WHY?
make meaningful comparisons of overall performance,
of target and actual values for individual parameters, or
to measure the success of specific modifications and
thus reduce rejection rates.
MORE SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
In addition to preventing serious product defects, such
as the inclusion of non-tobacco related materials, sen-
sors also help to avoid cosmetic and pneumatic de-
fects in cigarettes which could damage the manufac-
turer’s image. High tobacco taxes have led consumers
to perceive cigarettes as an expensive product and
they expect quality to match. In markets which are par-
ticularly quality sensitive, it is crucial that manufacturers
only supply retailers with products that are in perfect
condition.
DANGER DETECTED, DANGER AVERTED
Products identified by sensors as being of sub-standard
quality should not be classified as “additional rejects”.
Sensor technology provides an opportunity to identify
unwanted defects and their causes at an early stage,
act quickly and purposefully, and solve the problem. It
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Integrated high-end solutions
The team worked on the modular
solution for nearly one and a half
years. By the end of the project,
they had built a production line that
starts with a “DN-C” rod maker from
Decouflé’s tried-and-tested Nano-C cigarillo
maker. A Variomat-N then shapes the cigar’s char-
acteristic conical head. Cigars that do not require shap-
ing bypass this stage via an ET elliptical transfer unit. This
increases the flexibility of the cigar production line still fur-
ther. A Uniflow 2 automated tray filler from Universelle was
modified for the loading and unloading of cigars.
The project managers responsible for the modification
of the cigar line integrated high-end solutions from other
machines manufactured by
Hauni. Instead of a conventional
mass flow conveyor system, the
specialists installed a drum-based
tip-turning system normally found in
cigarette makers. For flavor spraying, they
chose an applicator from the PROTOS M-
generation cigarette maker which usually sprays
aromas onto flavored kretek cigarettes.
Modification is the key to success
The new solution has just half the footprint of its prede-
cessor. “This is primarily due to the extensive modifications
we made to the Variomat-N,” explains Masson. It was this
machine into which the team integrated the flavor spraying
solution, the bypass drum and a tip-turning drum that is
suitable for cigars with a diameter of up to 12 mm and a
length of up to 120 mm.
The acceptance runs produced outstanding results and
surpassed the agreed goals in every respect – including
better efficiency, a lower rejection rate and faster tobacco
and format changes. “This is an outstanding level of perfor-
mance and we, as a team, are very proud of our achieve-
ment,” says Masson. The consistent “one team” approach
impressed customers (literally) right along the line. Decouflé
has also benefited from the project. “With this line, we have
an attractive solution with a compact design and impressive
performance for the entire cigar industry,” explains Nicholas
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is impressive – the format change
was completed in 4.5 hours instead
of the scheduled five, and the tobacco
changeover in one hour rather than two.
percent efficiency is an outstanding result.”
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Our vision is to humanize artificial intelligence
to better humanity.” New Zealand startup
Soul Machines has its sights set pretty high
– and success to show for it. At the Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando in October 2018, Daimler
Financial Services, the financial and mobility service pro-
vider operated by Daimler AG, announced its strategic
interest in this fledgling company seen around the world as
a leader in the field of emotional intelligence in machines
and digital avatars. “Having successfully tested how the
use of artificial intelligence supports our internal processes
and helps us provide comprehensive service to our cus-
tomers, we are now investing in a disruptive technology
with a view to further enhancing the customer experience,”
said Udo Neumann, CIO of Daimler Financial Services
in his keynote speech.
Sarah can empathize
Back in February 2018, at the Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona, the
two companies presented their
daughter Sarah – a digital avatar
used in an internal pilot project
to answer the questions most
frequently asked by customers in a call centre. Daimler
Financial Services envisions using the Soul Machines tech-
nology to optimize the ‘customer journey’ with the help
of artificial and emotional intelligence. They see digital
Sarah assisting customers in a way akin to a personal con-
cierge. Thanks to its emotional intelligence, the machine
can recognize the most varied individual customer require-
ments and provide the right information at the right time.
Sarah is therefore designed to offer much more than a
simple chatbot with facial animation. Unlike language-based
assistance systems, the digital consultant aims not only to
understand what customers are telling her, but also to use
facial recognition to comprehend in real time how they are
saying it. In short, Sarah is meant to empathize with them.
With its investment, Daimler is responding to the signifi-
cantly growing share of online business and to the fact that
customers are increasingly making their purchas-
ing decisions on digital platforms. Benedikt
Schell, Chief Experience Officer and
member of the Board of Manage-
ment at Daimler Financial Services:
“Customers expect intuitive and
time-saving services that are
available 24/7 via the channel
On a rational level, THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) OF MACHINES today is often vastly superior to human intelligence. However, researchers believe that only emotional skills can make robots truly smart.
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developed the Sarah avatar with a view to optimizing the
customer journey through artificial and emotional intelligence.
An emotionally intelligent digital avatar learning
autonomously will bring about a paradigm shift
in our service.”Udo Neumann, Chief Information
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that suits them best. With Soul Machines, we are laying
another important foundation stone that allows us not only
to meet these customer demands, but to exceed them.”
Getting there faster
Soul Machines sees a broad range of applications for its
‘digital humans’: from customer service and banks or the
automotive sector to the healthcare system and education.
But while the importance of emotional intelligence in com-
munication challenges of all kinds is obvious, these are by
no means the only use case for machine-generated emo-
tions. There has long been consensus among researchers
about the close connection between cognition and emo-
tion, and thus about the relevance of emotions in making
the right decision when faced with complex challenges.
“Emotions are just another way of thinking,” wrote US re-
searcher and AI pioneer Marvin Minsky in his 2006 book
“The Emotion Machine”. Minsky argues that programs
that include specifications for every eventuality
become too complex and that emotions of-
ten lead to an alternative and economi-
cal path to “correct” behaviour. When
they need to, people also tend to
act spontaneously rather than de-
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or assumed danger alters our perception and assessment
of a situation: the threat is perceived more keenly, and the
people instinctively avoid dangerous areas or individuals.
Professor Eva Hudlicka is a psychotherapist and Principal
Scientist at Psychometrix Associates & Visiting Faculty at
the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. She explains these
processes as a “cognitive distortion”, known as a bias, in
the perception of danger. This helps us to focus on the es-
sentials, set priorities and thus act swiftly. Her idea is that
robots can also benefit from this bias.
The power of emotions
This is confirmed by a field test conducted by the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts. Eva Hudlicka wanted to create a
scenario in which a robot does not have to calculate all
eventualities from the outset, but is also not paralyzed by
irrational fear. Her goal was to find out how different types
of emotions and their intensity can affect cogni-
tion, i.e. the reorganization of information by
a system that is driven by behaviour.
Superiority through stress
The researchers also wanted to
find out what happens when func-
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Video “The World of Digital Humans”
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of threat gain the upper hand.
To do this, the scientists simulated
a rescue operation in snowy condi-
tions, with differently programmed avatars
using snowmobiles to find and rescue people.
Hudlicka described the findings in a magazine interview:
“While the more timid agents were faster in some cases
and better at prioritizing when danger threatened, they did
not pay attention to whether there was still enough fuel in
the tank.” Working together in a team, the various biases
balance out. According to Hudlicka, which agent benefits
from which bias ultimately depends on the task assigned:
“For an airline safety inspector, a threat bias is helpful. They
see potential dangers more quickly. If your goal on the other
hand is to persuade others to believe something, you may
need a “joy” bias, although this may be less conducive to
risk awareness.”
This research is still in the early stages at this point. In the
first instance, fundamental work is required: what exactly
can emotions contribute to cognition? What are the key fac-
tors that trigger the perception of danger? What frightens
people? What happens if the fear
“function” becomes too strong and
gains the upper hand? How do you keep
the influences of cognition and emotion in
proper balance? And not least, of course: how do
you implement these processes in a robot? There’s a long
way to go, but this field of study is as broad as it is promis-
ing: in the long run, the successful mapping of emotions to
machines could also help us better understand and treat
processes such as panic attacks or anxiety disorders in
human beings. =
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Xinhua has introduced two
new presenters: the computer-
controlled avatars read texts
fed into their system while their
mouths move accordingly.
Emotion analytics analyzes feel-
ings with the help of facial and voice
recognition in real time. Programs
enable computers to respond to the
emotions of a human counterpart.
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Every year during the holiday season, there are
an increasing number of horror stories about jel-
lyfish plagues, paralyzing the seaside tourism of
entire regions. They are so keenly reported not
only because of the unsightly outward appear-
ance of the marine creatures and their sometimes painful
effect on contact with the skin – there are in fact more and
more of them. In the Baltic and the North Sea, in
the Mediterranean, and also on Japanese
beaches and in Thailand, the increase
in the numbers of these brainless,
slimy animals is clearly document-
ed. At the Swedish nuclear power
station Oskarshamn, the opera-
tors were forced to remove a re-
actor from the grid on several
occasions because masses of
common jellyfish in the waters of
the Baltic Sea were threatening to
clog up the cooling system filters.
This is at least partly the fault of hu-
mans: jellyfish like it warm, which is why
the rising temperatures caused by climate
change increase the likelihood of jellyfish epidemics.
As a result of overfishing, food competition for the amorphous
animals is declining, and they tend to thrive when there is an
overabundance of plankton. At the same time, jellyfish eaters
like tuna fish are a popular human food and are therefore
becoming increasingly rare. The second channel of the Suez
Canal, opened in 2015, is seen by experts as a gateway to
further invasions of tropical sea dwellers, such as certain
species of jellyfish that disrupt the biological balance of the
Mediterranean and displace native species.
If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em
Jellyfish can be self-reproducing hermaphrodites, clone them-
selves, lay up to 45,000 eggs per day, sprout from polyps
and divide themselves in two. When a power plant in Japan
tried to solve its jellyfish problem with a mill, they only mag-
nified their problem exponentially. In short: it is almost im-
possible to control or push back the medusas. Against this
background, the slogan “if you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em”
is increasingly becoming the focus of scientific
research into dealing with the exponential
proliferation of these sea creatures.
Since the beginning of 2018, a con-
sortium of 15 scientific institutions
from eight European countries,
headed by GEOMAR Helmholtz
Centre for Ocean Research Kiel,
has been pursuing an innova-
tive idea. The GoJelly project,
funded by the European Union to
the tune of six million euros over
a period of four years, is investi-
gating ways to make sensible use of
the organisms in the future. “Accident-
ally introduced into European waters, the
American comb jelly alone amounts to a biomass of
one billion tons. We tend to ignore the jellyfish as much as
we can, but there must be other solutions,” says Jamileh
Javidpour from GEOMAR, the initiator and coordinator of
GoJelly. To begin with, the partners are carrying out some
JELLYFISH are appearing more and more frequently in large swarms – a troublesome, sometimes dangerous development. Researchers are making a virtue of necessity and looking to use the organisms as microplastic filters, fertilizers or materials for medical and cosmetic applications.
GO JELLY
Jellyfish are made up of two transparent layers of skin with a gelatinous mass in between. With no brain,
blood or heart, they consist almost exclusively of skin, stomach, mouth and a network of nerve cells.
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many jellyfish species has been in-
sufficiently studied to date. When and
where a large jellyfish bloom will appear
is currently almost impossible to predict. “We
want to change that, so that large jellyfish swarms
can be fished dry before they reach the coastline,” says
Javidpour.
Filters from mucus
At the same time, the project participants are already work-
ing on the second step: what to do with the fished biomass?
It can, for example, be used against another man-made
plague. When jellyfish are stressed, they secrete mucus.
Examining unappetizing substance is bringing some amaz-
ing things to light: “Initial studies have shown that mucus
from jellyfish can bind microplastics. So we want to try to see
Collagen and fish feed
As if that weren’t enough: the findings of initial research
also confirm the suitability of jellyfish as fertilizers and bulk-
ing agents as a soil water reservoir for farming in dry areas,
and also as feed for aquaculture. “At present, farmed fish are
usually fed with caught wild fish, which increases the prob-
lem of overfishing instead of reducing it. Feed from jellyfish
would be considerably more sustainable and would help to
conserve wild fish stocks,” says biologist Javidpour.
And last but not least, jellyfish also contain collagen, a sub-
stance much sought-after in the cosmetics industry, partly be-
cause of its reputed skin-tightening effect. This is marketed, for
example, by the German company Coastal Research & Man-
agement (CRM) as “Ocean Collagen”. According to CRM, the
yield from the finely chopped sea creatures is also suitable for
the medical sector, for example, for the treatment of wounds
or as a substrate for the cultivation of human cartilage cells.
Jellyfish à la carte
A very special challenge lies in the obvious idea of position-
ing low-calorie jellyfish as a healthy food for human con-
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whether biofilters can be produced
from jellyfish. They could then be used
in wastewater treatment plants or in fac-
tories where microplastics are produced,”
explains Javidpour. Microplastic particles are
particles less than 1 mm in size that are either manu-
factured industrially for use in consumer products or detach
themselves from larger items made of plastic. When they get
into the sea, dense plastics sink to the seabed, making them
difficult to remove. The problem is exacerbated by the fact
that more than 90 percent of buoyant microplastic particles
reach the ocean floor – either because they are eaten by
organisms or because they get caught up in other particles.
Used in wastewater treatment plants or in factories that pro-
duce microplastics, nanofilters made of jellyfish mucus could
ensure a significant reduction in the amount of microplastic
particles entering the world’s oceans.
in countries such as in China, the idea of eating them will
take more than a little getting used to for most Europeans.
“Some food cultures, especially in Asia, already feature jel-
lyfish on the menu. If jellyfish-based foods come closer to
the style of western cuisine and are produced in accordance
with European food safety regulations, they will gain wider
public acceptance,” says GoJelly researcher Javidpour. For
the most part, jellyfish apparently taste like nothing. In dishes
such as the jellyfish salad popular in China, the flavor is cre-
ated primarily by herbs and other ingredients. The consis-
tency, on the other hand, is more challenging: pliable, slightly
slimy, but surprisingly hard when chewed. And after all, the
lack of a taste of its own did not get in the way of the global
triumph of the oyster. =
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Jellyfish bloom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42lt7qpjtiI
GoJelly and predicting jellyfish blooms
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yiLhfwFizA
GoJelly and the problem of microplastic pollution
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQ__AGP_
pg&feature=youtu.be
Studies have shown that mucus of jellyfish can bind microplastic.
Hence, GoJelly is testing whether biofilters can be produced from jellyfish.
In the GoJelly project researcher are investigating the biochemical,
nutritional and physiological characteristics of jellyfish for their use as food.Tube of face scrub containing microbeads.
<1 mm The size of microplastic particles polluting our
oceans in large numbers. Jellyfish mucus is able to
bind these particles.
Jellyfish kreisel tank of the Kiel Marine Organism Culture Centre at the GEOMAR aquarium:
as part of the GoJelly project, a novel breeding tank for jellyfish is to be developed.
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PRESERVING VALUES
Every company is interested in optimizing the cost-
performance ratio of equipment over its entire life cycle.
But which asset management models are suitable for
which companies? And what services does Hauni
offer its customers between installation and relocation
management?
CHALLENGES + SOLUTIONS
NEW VENTIS FIFO RESERVOIR
VENTIS is Hauni’s new solution for particularly sensitive
or very short products. VENTIS automatically processes
the product mass flow in portions using innovative
protective boxes. Its brilliantly smooth first-in-first-out
principle ensures a high level of product quality.
INNOVATION + RESPONSIBILITY
THE RIGHT END OF THE STICK
A French start-up has won a series of innovation awards
for making wood transparent. Other materials scientists
are altering this natural material to make it electrically
conductive and magnetic. Wood researchers believe their
traditional product is set to become the building material
of the century.
What’s the greatest guitar riff of all time? It’s a ques-
tion that has launched many a long, and sometimes
passionate, discussion among music aficionados.
However, it is undisputed that the guitar line on “Smoke on the
Water” by Deep Purple is always one of the top contenders.
Since it was released in 1972, countless teenagers have rocked
out in their bedrooms with air guitars and tennis rackets. In gui-
tar stores, it is the second most frequently played song chosen
by customers to test new instruments – after Led Zeppelin’s
“Stairway to Heaven”. And in the USA, it is the most widely
recognized song after the national anthem.
What’s more, the song that made music history has fascinat-
ing origins too: a fire that broke out during a concert by Frank
Zappa and The Mothers of Invention in the Montreux Casino
on Lake Geneva’s shore in December 1971 – probably due
to a fan shooting a flare gun into the ceiling. Nobody was
injured, but the whole building burned to the ground and
all the band’s equipment was destroyed. At the time, Deep
Purple were in Montreux recording their album “Machine
Head” in a mobile studio. The band members witnessed
the tragic end of the Zappa concert. Having escaped
the flames, Deep Purple comprising Ian Gillan, Ritchie
Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice walked
along the promenade watching the thick clouds of smoke on
the water – the inspiration for their global hit. =
SMOKE ON THE WATER
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