SCM Group receives SMAU Innovation Award for artificial intelligence applied to surface finishing
SCM Group transforms decades of experience in surface finishing technologies into a proprietary algorithm, providing industry professionals with a digital assistant that guides them in real time
One of the most pressing challenges currently facing the manufacturing industry is the shortage of specialised technical skills on the factory floor. In response to this challenge, SCM Group has developed an innovation dedicated to mechanical surface finishing processes, which received an award on 4 November at the 20th edition of SMAU in Milan.
The innovation is an artificial intelligence-based process configurator integrated into its DMC machines for sanding wood and metal. It transforms decades of accumulated data and scientific testing into a fully-fledged digital assistant, designed to guide both SCM sales teams in machine configuration and industry operators in selecting the right processing parameters.
Operations such as sanding, calibration and deburring require the precise combination of numerous variables, including working speed, pressure, material type and abrasive loads. SCM has drawn on the expertise developed since 1956 for its DMC range of machines, incorporating scientific measurements carried out in its own laboratories. This substantial body of qualitative and quantitative data has been encoded into proprietary algorithms, delivering more specialised results than generic language models.
The result is a process configurator that integrates directly into the machine’s human-machine interface (HMI), providing specialised responses based on SCM’s real-world experience and tailored to individual customer applications.
The application is designed as a dynamic system that continually evolves. Every new application tested by SCM under real-world conditions will progressively enrich its knowledge base, enabling the company to expand and refine the solutions available to support its customers.
“Adopting this configurator brings operational and economic benefits across the entire value chain,” explains Alessandro Caramia, Product Manager & Business Developer at SCM. “The configurator is designed to reduce setup times and simplify the selection of processing parameters, with estimated time savings of up to 20% in the applications considered.
“Within the company, the tool also guides the sales team in configuring systems optimally during the quotation stage, providing accurate estimates of processing times, costs and productivity, while offering SCM opportunities to develop future software update services.”
The SMAU Innovation Award was collected by Bruno Di Napoli, Business Unit Manager of SCM’s surface treatment solutions, and Sara Iaconianni, SCM Group’s Scouting, Idea Management & Idea Generation Manager.
For more information on SCM Group, see www.scmgroup.com/en_GB.
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