Bühler AG and Softing Industrial have worked together successfully over the past 20 years. Currently, Softing‘s dataFEED Suite is used as middleware to connect machinery to the Mercury MES, cloud, and SQL database used within a standard Bühler Machine-line architecture. Further activities are focused on integrating the dataFEED Suite into Bühler’s digital solutions and supporting joint research and development projects for sustainability initiatives around resource consumption and waste reduction.
The collaboration opens up new opportunities for customers to monitor production processes in real time, analyze data intelligently, and achieve greater operational efficiency while reducing environmental impact.
Focus on sustainable digitalization
Bühler AG is an international company specializing in solutions and services in the fields of food and feed processing, advanced materials, and digital technologies. Greater efficiency, sustainability, and safety along the entire value chain are at the heart of digital development for Bühler. Digital solutions in the areas of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are intended to make processes more economical and environmentally friendly.
Bühler Insights: Data integration for future-oriented industrial processes
One focus of the cooperation between Bühler AG and Softing Industrial is the Bühler Insights digital platform. This powerful tool uses data-driven insights for remote monitoring and predictive maintenance to optimize productivity and performance in industrial processes. For data integration, Bühler uses Softing’s dataFEED Suite. This all-in-one software supports various protocols and formats to collect data from different machines and systems, making it available for analysis, cloud applications, and other IT systems.
Additionally, Bühler plans to use the dataFEED OPC Suite in new digital solutions and sustainability projects aimed at further reducing resource consumption and waste.
“We see great potential in working with Softing Industrial to advance the development of state-of-the-art and sustainable solutions,” says Kurt Geiger, Department Manager R&D Software, Bühler AG. “Our customers expect us to provide solutions that not only increase efficiency but also focus on sustainability and flexibility. Together, we can fulfill this requirement even more effectively.”
Jason Minto, Vice President Global Sales, Softing Industrial Automation GmbH, adds: “Our expertise in data integration and connectivity allows us to design innovative solutions for networked processes that increase productivity while significantly reducing the ecological footprint.”
Working together for connected and sustainable industrial processes
The closer cooperation between Softing Industrial and Bühler AG opens the possibility of supporting networked and resource-saving production processes. Together, the companies can develop digital solutions that optimize real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and data-driven efficiency improvements - to significantly advance sustainability and productivity in the industry.
