Special on ACE & off-road vehicles. Includes also the special insert ICT - Industrial Cleaning Technologies.
SMART
Five letters, an English term now widely used in every language, but probably one of the most difficult words to translate despite its simplicity.
Like all terms with multiple semantic nuances, "smart" is a word that must be filled with meaning by those who use it.
This issue of ipcm®, a super issue in terms of number of articles, content quality, and advertising presence, offers a varied overview of the smart industrial world applied to the surface treatment sector.
Sustainability, energy saving and efficiency, new frontiers of robotics and automation, circular economy-oriented recycling, finishing systems organised as machine tools, and coating plants that reduce cycle times and energy consumption: these are just some of the great themes that have guided the development and transformation of the companies presented, many of which belong to, or are suppliers of, the (ACE) sector, which includes agricultural, earthmoving, and construction machinery as well as off-road vehicles in general.
When reading all these articles, it emerges that the smart-oriented development is the response of these businesses to the growing market demands for customisation and flexibility, which in turn call for quick reaction and clever processes. In a word, smartness.