Frumecar is a Spanish company that offers worldwide services, dedicated to providing solutions to manufacturing, transportation and digital technology for the concrete industry with a wide range of products and services, including dry and wet concrete batching plants, concrete mixers, concrete recycling systems and the line of business Intelligent Systems (a state-of-the-art set of digital tools for plant and fleet management).
Easy Engineering: Which are the most futuristic products / solutions from your portfolio?
FRUMECAR: Teleoperated concrete mixers designed so that all operations are controlled from a small and intuitive remote control. A system that improves operational safety, increases precision and optimizes discharge times.
The K2 system implemented in all our concrete batching plants, is an advanced concrete production control and smart supervision system that allows you to control production automatically, from start to end.
Frumecar Cloud, a platform of advanced applications and systems, designed to optimize and manage concrete production companies. It offer, from the first minute, to the access and exploit all the essential information required by participants in the production and distribution of concrete, with any device connected to the Internet from anytime and anywhere.
RealScale, a control system ensuring that all components are weighed correctly in concrete preparations. Thus gives concrete manufacturers peace of mind, providing them with a real-time diagnosis of what is happening in their production at all times.
Digital twins allow operations that cannot be done in the plant under normal working conditions. It is used as a test bed, to simulate certain malfunctions, to find solutions and to anticipate scenarios. Thereby, it saves the resources that would have to be spent if these tests were done with the real plant and the cost that it would have to stop or delay the production of the plant. In addition, all the information on the operation of the plant can be transferred, its data analyzed, recovered and recreated in the virtual plant.
The remote assistance, can reduce the time necessary to resolve the incident by 80%. In this way, any stoppages caused by the incident are minimal, ensuring that the plant resumes production within the shortest possible time. The use of this technology also provides a high level of autonomy to the client.
SecurData Frumecar, a complete automatic backup service that includes: secure and continuous protection of operational data, daily copies with automated backup with guarantee of restoration, support carried out by specialists of the sector, … and it´s valid with any process software that uses the plants. With this service Frumecar customers are confident that if something fails in their plant, it will work again within 24 hours without having to take care of anything.
E.E: What are the characteristics of these products / solutions?
FRUMECAR: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) allows us to use smart sensors to generate new and valuable information. For example, the set of sensors installed in our plants that feed data into the K2 of Frumecar control system.
The cloud storage enables the mass storage of all this data so that it is instantly accessible from anywhere for plant technicians and managers. As do the Frumecar Cloud applications.
The blockchain can provide unique value to our information management systems, equipping them with maximum security. Ensuring, for example, the traceability of the concrete manufacturing and delivery chain.
Software robots (chatbots) with artificial intelligence to provide technical support (remote assistance) and handle any customer incident, regardless of the time of the incident or location where your equipment is installed.
E.E: Tell us about the company’s long-term goals / prospects?
FRUMECAR: We want to continue to be a benchmark, solvent and guarantee company in the world of concrete, to continue associating our brand with the quality of the product and service. In addition, we intend to be participants in the future of construction. Important changes are coming: the industrialization of construction, the (real) digitization of the sector, the environmental impact and carbon footprint, the integration of the entire construction process, etc. This represents a great challenge for companies, but also a large number of opportunities.
E.E: Tell us about product innovation and how does it impact the future?
FRUMECAR: We talk about plants and concrete mixers are permanently connected and transmitting information in real time to optimize the performance of your business, thanks the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT); we refer to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the productivity, to benefit from applications and devices that facilitate the operation and maintenance of equipment and help train workers, taking advantage of the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).
E.E: How will product innovation help the customers?
FRUMECAR: R&D is the main gear of our value proposition. Our clients work with us because they consider us a partner that constantly adds value to them. Because we are starting to innovate to understand our customers’ needs better and what they need to become more efficient and guarantee the success of their business. We have the advantage that our products have a system for gathering information about the customer and their processes that allows us to offer improvements.
Autonomy, time savings, greater security, cost savings … are just some of the benefits that technology provides our customers.
E.E: How do employees shape your company’s future orientation?
FRUMECAR: At Frumecar, innovation goes from being an abstract concept to being an integral way of operating, managing and producing, of responding to our clients’ questions. Our approach to R&D is dynamic. It goes from outside to inside. It involves thinking outside the box of what works now. In this scheme, each member of the company is a sensor capable of capturing changes and new abroad. To materialize this commitment, there is an interdepartmental body in our corporate structure that monitors and channels all the ideas that arise in the company, the Innovation Committee, and it works with teams made up of members from all our departments. This system helps generate innovative ideas that seek the common link between customer needs, the company’s technological capacity and the economic viability of innovations.
E.E: How does the digital transformation affect your products / business?
FRUMECAR: The horizon opened up by these digital advances in the sector is immense. Thanks to Big Data, the capture and management of the information provided by the teams, operators and customers simplifies decision-making and problem solving. Digital intelligence helps us anticipate situations and propose actions and solutions for improvement. For example, with the digital twins we can anticipate the results of any proposed change or investigation without stopping or occupying the equipment and all this before making investments.
E.E: Tell us about research and development in your company.
FRUMECAR: We have internal projects and others in collaboration with important research centers that are still under development, and we cannot advance information.
E.E: How do you overcome the new challenges and this more competitive environment?
FRUMECAR: In today’s world, everything to do with the digitization of the business is a basic axis of our research. Frumecar has always brought innovation in its DNA, providing digital solutions and high-tech to get the concrete sector into Industry 4.0. It is for this reason that we are constantly striving to be at the forefront of manufacturing machinery developments for the concrete industry.
E.E: Tell us about the company’s future strategies and how will you adapt to the future.
FRUMECAR: For many years the company has opted for innovation. It is something that goes beyond the company’s product portfolio, it is something that is in our DNA. Innovation at Frumecar is a transversal strategy in the company. Internally we investigate the implementation of new technologies and work systems in the industrial environment; we look for new ways to produce, use and commercialize products and services related to the world of construction and concrete. Ideas for new products and services are tested, developed and launched or canceled at high speed following a process of “Think fast, Test fast, Learn fast”.
In open projects, we collaborate with companies, public and private entities, professionals and researchers in the development of advanced lines of research for new technologies and in their real implementation in the world of industry and business.
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