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In a few years a businessman from Japan may buy large quantities of concrete to a Spanish company only using your mobile phone and without having to wait for days to reach the Spanish product phone.
A similar idea is the one that takes in hand the professor of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Antonio Guerrero, who through IEER-dayra Group, developed for the company Frumecar the K4.0 system, which aims automation concrete plants.
Guerrero has said during the day 'Technology management, innovation and industry 4.0' that this industry "is the future" and that through it, companies can be more competitive in the market.
As an example highlighted the case of Frumecar a Spanish company specializing in machinery and technology for the concrete industry, which has already begun to take an interest in this system.
As indicated, in 2005 it was a benchmark in Spain and owned 95% of the manufacture of concrete in the country, but soon after the crisis took its toll on the company and had to reinvent itself looking for a business opportunity abroad.
That was how the collaboration with the UPCT sought 16 years helped them design and implement a system of control of materials that would allow them to serve all customers ago.
Engineers at the Polytechnic of Cartagena KOBETON designed the system, which subsequently led to the K2 version and now is developing version K4.0, framed within the paradigm of Industry 4.0, through which could automate plants concrete.
Currently, the collaboration with the university continues, but focusing the system to what has been called Industry 4.0, that is, looking for all the information generated through the cloud so that a customer can place orders with mobile and move to a concrete plant where there will be nobody and through a code which will have been previously provided, dispatched concrete need.
This system has already been translated into more than 10 languages ​​to promote the international market.
The drawback to this course of action is that it would be necessary that the plants were also monitored, for it UPCT teacher says they are working with drones for security and greater quality control in these facilities.
INTELLIGENT PACKAGING FOR FOOD
Another presentation has featured the professor of the School of Agricultural Engineering of the UPCT, Antonio Lopez, who has enlightened the audience on the implementation of smart packaging in the food industry.
For him, in about 5 or 10 years "may" be smart packaging that can communicate with the refrigerator.
Such products will be equipped with sensors that warn consumers if the product is bad and avoid wasting a third of the food.
"The food factory will have to evolve into so-called smart food factory, composed of one or more intelligent systems" warns while indicating that it must tend to solutions that optimize production and make it more flexible, efficient and adapted to consumer.
The aim is, has Lopez, improve product quality and be more efficient in the use of materials through increased control of the entire production process.
It also notes that they are already developing sensors that are placed on labels and packaging that are responsible for measuring the temperature of food and developed to detect whether some kind of pathogenic mycology.
"It would improve food security," he adds.
In this same vein said Teleco professor Fernando Cerdan, who spoke about the Internet of Things, from the point of view of Hidrogea-UPCT chair.
It has been reported that through this technology and thanks to sensors can know whether or not it is necessary to treat water and ensure the efficiency of the water supply network.
"Internet of Things will make a technological leap forward with technologies that have low spending a very long distance range," he says co-directed the chair Cerdán with Professor of Roads and Mines Juan García Bermejo.
Finally, the administrator of the spin off of the UPCT Widhoc, Emilio Leal, has indicated that through technology can make the soil water status to optimize water use.
"Our customers helps them to know that their orders are being met," he says.
The Joranda is organized by the Truth, in collaboration with the UPCT, Repsol and the Instituto de Fomento (Info) of the Region of Murcia.
Source: UPCT
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