b'DIGITALIZATIONit turns out, he has the ingredients youre lacking and vice versa. So, you pool your supplies and bake together a delicious pie, which you both enjoy with a fresh cup of coffee. Do you understand now how an open ecosystem works? If Ive whetted your appetite for pie, Ill be glad to send you a recipe! To summarize, we now have a digitalization strategy for the company, we have the right organizational setup and essentially the right mindset for implementing digitalization in the company. avoidanceof holes and defectsfor papermakers that could create Thats all well and good; but many willin the paper web, which can leada prediction about the addition of rightly point out that all this activity hasnot only to increased costs in post- chemicals and quality. The answer obviously cost the company time andprocessing and reduced quality but inis yes, this can be done with modern money, so where is the added valuethe worst case can cause the paperanalytical tools, artificial intelligence, that digitalization and Industrie 4.0 areweb to break (leading in addition tolots of expertise, appropriate operator supposed to generate? Well, thats aquality also into a loss of productioninterfaces, and an effective team. good question . time). Obviously, no one disputesWhen all this is implemented in a this link, but how can it be preciselywell-functioning open ecosystem, its As a way to stimulate your imagination,quantified or characterized in todaysindeed possible to generate a solution patient reader, to help you think upsetup? Or even predicted in real time?that can predict what to expect from your own digitalization approaches,The colleagues working in the factorythe increasing or decreasing dosing allow me to recount a practical examplecan apply their extensive experienceof certain chemicals and therefore from the everyday operations of aand expertise and can also conductincrease real production and enhance paper, board or tissue machine. Afterlab tests from tambour samples toquality. It can also reduce costs thanks all, its precisely the colleagues whomanage this process very well, andto the much more accurate dosing of work day in and day out in the factorytheyre indeed masters of their craft.expensive chemicals.to ensure maximum production andAnd yet conversations with machine quality at the lowest possible costtheoperators have shown that a predictionMany readers will now say: We do that machine operators and maintenancealong the lines of What would happenalready, weve been doing it, thats old staff in the factorythose who knowif and what I could do against?hat, etc. But do you really? Certainly, exactly what problems they face on ahumanswould be extremely helpful. In otherpredictive solutions are nothing new daily basis. And due to their immenseare simplywords, humans are indeed capableand are already being employed in expertise, theyre an important part ofnot equippedof managing the process correctlymany industries, including the paper any open ecosystem and ultimatelyto alwayson the basis of their experience, butindustry. But on closer inspection, two make a not inconsiderable contributionunderstandtheyre simply not equipped to alwaysthings are new or havent yet been to the successful implementation ofthousandsunderstand thousands of data pointsimplemented in this way. The first is digitalization solutions. of datafrom historical and current dataa technical platform on which these points fromsources. And so, machine operatorsuse cases can be built and then Lets consider the link between thehistorical andhave asked whether digitalizationalso MULTIPLIED or transferred to chemicals added in stock preparationcurrent datacould support them in this processthe companys other production lines. and the emergenceor rathersources. by providing a kind of crystal ballThe second is a descriptive solution 58 TISSUE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL'