WITH SACMI, H.E.R.E. (HUMAN EXPERTISE FOR REACTIVE ENGINEERING) MAKES HIS ENTRANCE IN THE CELLARS.

A NEW APPROACH TO THE MANUFACTURING AND BOTTLING PROCESS WHICH TAKES ADVANTAGE OF AND IMPLEMENTS, ALSO IN THIS SECTOR, THE OPPORTUNITIES AND PRINCIPLES OF INDUSTRY 4.0.

Defranceschi-SACMI revolutionizes the process of winemaking with a set of digital solutions for the cellars Enology 4.0 is born, the new production approach that refers to the Sacmi H.E.R.E. (Human Expertise for Reactive Engineering) platform.

Thanks to advanced sensorsand the interconnection between machines and departments, H.E.R.E. allows to take advantage of all the opportunities of Industry 4.0 applied to the enological sector from thepredictive diagnostics in machines and installations to different and more efficient warehouse management, thanks to the system’s ability tointeract directly with the customer’s ERP.

A true installation controller that goes beyond the traditional line supervisor concept, Sacmi H.E.R.E was developed in 2015 as a common platform for all sectors and businesses of Sacmi’s activities.

In the wine sector, in particular, this system allows theconstant monitoring of each crucial step, from the quality control in the field to the elaboration of wine, from bottling to labelling.

Thanks to H.E.R.E., every Defranceschi-SACMI machine, from innovative membrane presses to product handling automation, from fillers to storage autoclaves, they can communicate with each other, offering the operator valuable information about the installation efficiency index and the ability to set upautomatic feedback on production to maximize performance and/or identify to solve potential critical problems in advance.

Thus, the Group challenges a sector in which the application of the principles of smart manufacturing allows increasing competitiveness and efficiency with a view to customer satisfaction and a growing improvement of the wine product, a product that expresses a history, an identity, a centuries-old wine culture that, thanks to new technologies, SACMI is renewed and projected into the future.