Fedrigoni has contracted ABB to equip its upcoming RD&I facility in Verona, Italy, with an L&W Lab Management System (LMS). The Fedrigoni Innovation Center is due to open at the beginning of 2024.
Sep 11, 2023
Fedrigoni has contracted ABB to install its L&W Lab Management System (LMS) at its new research, development, and innovation (RD&I) facility, The Fedrigoni Innovation Center, Verona, to optimize efficiency and reduce lab procedure time. The Fedrigoni Innovation Center is spread over an area of 3,000 sqm and will officially open at the beginning of 2024. ABB’s LMS has been purpose-built for paper testing labs, with automated lab reporting that is specifically tailored to workflow practices, enabling the operator to quickly and accurately complete measurements by sample or instrument and know which test is to be performed for every sample.
The center will consist of four closely complementary areas: the RD&I department, the FedLab (incubator of new ideas), the Customer Experience Centre, and the Customer Academy (internal and external training).
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Part of ABB Ability™, the LMS is scalable and can connect different benchtop lab testing instruments, as well as automated paper testing systems such as the L&W Autoline, into one database and interface. This installation will connect Fedrigoni’s 10 different L&W instruments – ABB’s L&W Bending Tester, L&W Bendtsen Tester, L&W Air Permeance Tester, L&W Tearing Tester, L&W Tensile Tester, L&W Micrometer, L&W Bursting Strength Tester, L&W OptiTopo, L&W TSO Tester and L&W Fiber Tester as well as third-party instruments – directly to the LMS which then is accessed via a web browser. Data from the lab instruments is automatically aggregated and captured in the database, eliminating the risk of errors and significantly reducing data collection time. Results become immediately available to the user who can use the web-based application to view historic data, quality reports, product quality limits, trends, and key performance indicators (KPIs) in an intuitive dashboard.
Mr. Marco Nespolo, CEO of Fedrigoni Group, said, “The Innovation Center aims to be the home of innovation for both our worlds of special papers for packaging and creative communication and premium self-adhesives. It will be a physical space where we can bring together the best talents, inside and outside Fedrigoni, and the most advanced technological solutions to develop projects, new products, and applications that support our customers. ABB’s lab management system met all of our requirements and will be instrumental in helping us to roll out new developments more quickly in the future.”
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Mr. Erik Teunissen, Regional Sales Manager, ABB Italy, said, “We are pleased to support Fedrigoni’s commitment to paper and self-adhesive quality and digital innovation and be a part of its RD&I facility in Italy, which will be key to its expansion plans. ABB’s new, modern LMS will help increase Fedrigoni’s productivity and efficiency by streamlining workflows, reducing time and risk of manual errors, and expediting the overall quality testing process for product development.”
