In the new LiSTEN LiSEC podcast Sarah Hummelsberger (Online Marketing Manager at LiSEC Austria GmbH) and Harald Miksch (Head of Product Management Software at LiSEC Austria GmbH) discuss trends, technologies and innovations from the glass processing industry.

Insulating glass production, an important part of the global glass industry, is constantly evolving. While the production of IG units with flexible (VSA) and thermoplastic (TPA) spacers was already possible in an automated process, rigid spacers continued to pose a challenge for machine developers. LiSEC has now succeeded in realizing this production step without operator interaction. Applying rigid spacers automatically - how does that work?

In today's business world, it is not enough for manufacturing companies to simply have well-filled order books. Rather, they need to ensure that their production facilities are used efficiently and consistently deliver high-quality products. The key to this lies in the data generated by the production equipment. Companies that manage to interpret this data in a meaningful way and draw the right conclusions from it have a clear competitive advantage over their rivals.

Production companies in the flat glass industry are facing the challenge of optimizing their processes to increase productivity and quality like never before. Data and its analysis are playing an increasingly important role in this. If reliable data can be obtained from the individual production plants, valuable insights can be gained, which contributes to considerable transparency and facilitates well-founded decisions. With lis.analytics, LiSEC provides production managers with a data-supported tool for monitoring production performance on the basis of real-time data and subsequently optimizing it through appropriate measures.

In today's business world, it is no longer enough to have a good order situation. To remain competitive, companies must also ensure that their machines run reliably and that production downtime is minimized. This is because downtime can lead to considerable costs and delivery delays.