MBO presents the future of print finishing One year before drupa, the world’s largest trade fair for the printing and print media industry, opens its doors once again, folding machine manufacturer MBO is holding an Open House. On 5 and 6 September, customers and interested parties can look into the future and find out today about the possibilities of tomorrow. The focus of the event will be on the current topics automation, digitalisation, robotics, networking and Industry 4.0 / IIoT.
Automated stacking with the MBO CoBo-Stack
A total of three CoBo-Stacks will be on show at the Open House. The MBO CoBo-Stack is a collaborative robot which works directly next to and with its human colleagues, without additional protective measures such as barrier fences. With the new, automated CoBo-Stack, MBO is revolutionising the labour-intensive, manual stacking of folded signatures. The stacked signatures are transported from the delivery onto the table of the CoBo-Stack. The robot picks up the stacks from the table and deposits them on pallets. In addition to greatly reducing the physical effort required, this gives the operator time to carry out administrative tasks, for example quality control or preparing the next folding job.
Software for a networked finishing process
The MBO Datamanager 4.0, already successfully established on the market, is a software package for production planning and analysis. Datamanager uses job-specific data, such as the materials used, the sheet size and the fold types, to optimise the set-up process for the folding machine. This means shorter set-up times. But Datamanager 4.0 is also the interface to higher-level Management Information Systems. As a result of constant data exchange via JDF or REST-API, all changes to the production are immediately passed on to the machines. Live synchronisation of data makes production predictable, allowing effective production planning and objective final costing.
MBO partner Baumann Medianetics will be presenting the aepos PrePress Workflow and the cavok DAM system. aepos is a PDF pre-press workflow and a comprehensive job management system rolled into one. It allows you to conveniently manage complex printing jobs and network them to form a continuous process chain – in digital, sheet-fed or web offset printing. This makes the software the perfect complete solution for the pre-press stage. The second software package Baumann Medianetics will be presenting is cavok, a Digital Asset Management and workflow system which is quite different from traditional DAM applications, as it is particularly suitable for print and online media production and integration into other systems, even across departments and companies.
Efficient production through automation and further features
All five folding machines MBO will be showing at the Open House are equipped with the new M1 control and are automated: the K8RS, K8 and K80 combi folders as well as the T800.1 and T50 buckle fold machines. Automation means faster set-up for all folding machines. Tried and trusted MBO features such as the ergonomically designed slitter shaft cassette also contribute to reducing set-up times. With the T800.1, MBO will be demonstrating the advantages of its sheet return device. It reduces the path between feeder and delivery by around 80%. The K80 features the newly developed KT90 curved table. It deflects folded sheets arriving from the cross-fold area through 90 degrees. As a result, in order to change over from a 16-page to a 32-page production run, the delivery only needs to be moved in one direction. This saves not only set-up time, but also valuable space in the production environment.
Dynamic perforations on the web
At the Open House, visitors will be able to see how a digitally printed paper webs become a finished product with dynamic perforations and a glued spine. The product is bundled behind the delivery and then deposited on pallets by the CoBo-Stack. Both the unwinder and the dynamic perforator are new developments from MBO.
Rotary die-cutting with the BOGRAMA BSR 550 basic
The compact and attractively priced BSR 550 basic is structured as an offline solution. It is designed specifically for users who want to produce small and medium runs economically and efficiently. It is suitable for die-cutting, kiss-cutting, scoring, perforating and embossing a wide variety of products such as packaging, labels, mailings, presentation folders, to name but a few – in both offset and digital printing. Visitors to the Open House will be able to see how it is possible to punch widely ranging jobs by means of a simple tool change.
Registration for the MBO Open House
To find out more about the world of networked print finishing with MBO and its partner companies Baumann and Bograma and see all new developments live, please register by 16 August at the latest by sending an e-mail to: mbadaoui@dynagraph.net
Exhibition program for the MBO Open House
MBO K8RS with CoBo-Stack
MBO K8 with CoBo-Stack
MBO Digital Line with CoBo-Stack
MBO T800.1 with Sheet Return Device
MBO K80 with Curved Table
MBO T50
Rotary Die-Cutter BOGRAMA BSR 550 basic
MBO Datamanager 4.0
PrePress Workflow aepos
DAM System cavok
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