Belimo replaces all its previous labeling systems with OPAL LABELMANAGEMENT™. This all-in-one digital approach from Belimo demonstrates Belimo’s confidence and trust in OPAL’s products. With the expansion of functionalities in matrix management, a new “Scan & Print Mode” and a new “Content & Alert Manager” product, Belimo’s demanding requirements with regard to digitization were met.
Belimo, headquartered in Switzerland, is the world market leader in the development, manufacture and distribution of field devices for the regulation and control of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. Sensors, control valves and damper actuators form the core business.
Industry: Electronics
OPAL products in use
System Environment
- Replacement of a 15-year-old in-house development (Labview, Microsoft tools)
- Control 550,000 data attributes depending on product, configuration and customer.
- Verification of the nameplates of 3500 standard products and 7500 product variants before the new solution could be put into operation.
- A global label management system for all Belimo labeling processes.
- Label creation has become much easier and faster thanks to print simulation with digital preview, a where-used list, extensive configurability, and an efficient digital approval process with electronic signature.
- Flexible printing processes: online / offline and inline
- Support of dynamic data like serial number and MAC addresses
- Elimination of local printing processes
- Digital history of labels and their data content
- Digital preview of labels available to anyone and at any time
- The standardization of processes promotes digitization on the one hand and process knowledge in the company on the other.
- Efficiency increase from 15 to 1 one second from the printing process.
- Easy handling in production thanks to the “Scan & Print” function in the Web Print Client
- Over 50% fewer label templates (430 –> 200), through intelligent, generic templates.
- 160 printers could be converted from local to IP-based network connections.
- Reduction of 42 computers, monitors and scanners previously used for marking
- More efficient & effective proactive maintenance via integrated monitoring
Contents of the Success Story
Read here how BELIMO has digitized the complexity of configurable products and improved marking in time, cost and quality.
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