Pfleiderer is a leading manufacturer of high-quality engineered wood, laminates, and resin-based adhesive systems. Headquartered in Neumarkt, Germany, Pfleiderer employs around 2200 people, mainly at five sites in Germany and one for adhesive systems in Poland.

Pfleiderer has been using Wedge very successfully at its Baruth site for years, and now Wedge is also used at the Gütersloh site. 

The primary aim of using Wedge is complete process optimization – from the preparation to the finishing of high-quality wood-based materials. In addition, MFT (material flow tracking) and the analysis of downtime data are part of how Wedge is used at Pfleiderer.

Pfleiderer attaches particular importance to sustainability, and Wedge plays its part be providing fast problem detection and troubleshooting. Wedge is very easy to use and therefore accessible to a large group of users.

We are delighted to welcome MM Kotkamills Boards Oy, our newest Wedge customer. After a successful pilot phase, they decided to continue to enhance their innovative board machine BM2 performance with the help of Trimble’s industrial data analytics system, Wedge.

“The Wedge process data analysis tool is a great step change for MM Kotkamills for a more systematic approach to improve quality consistency and faster troubleshooting. It’s easy to use, which enables a large group of people from engineers to operators to utilize the program.”
 –Riku Suurnäkki,  Production Director

MM Kotkamills produces ecological wood products, pulp, CTMP, saturating kraft paper, and fully recyclable barrier boards. In the first phase, Wedge will be utilized in board production. The annual capacity of the board machine is 400,000 tons of food-safe consumer boards that can replace plastics used in packaging.

We are looking for a new member to our Wedge team in Espoo, Finland.

If you can see yourself as our new Development Engineer developing our process diagnostics system Wedge as well as Wedge related new applications, especially distributed Big Data acquisition, Storage and handling Tools and Applications, don’t wait too long but apply now.

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A peer-reviewed article about Wedge is published in the November issue of the TAPPI Journal. The article “Determining operating variables that impact internal fiber bonding using Wedge statistical analysis methods” is written by our valued customer, WestRock.

The article is for TAPPI members only, but the abstract is available for everyone.

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Klabin is expanding its Wedge use for its new mill site in Ortigueira, Brazil.

“The aim is to maintain the same practicality and speed in analyses as we have experienced in our other mills.”
– Elielson Batista, Process Engineer, Klabin 

Klabin has been using Wedge since 2018. Features such as modeling, linear regressions, multivariate correlations with dynamic compensation of process delays have been in active use. Also, the flexibility to incorporate multiple databases in a single system has been valued. 

“Wedge has facilitated quick responses and speedier support for decision-making. It has been especially valuable for discovering disturbances and identifying opportunities to optimize our processes.”
– Elielson Batista

The new Wedge deployment is part of the Puma II Project which is the biggest investment in Klabin’s history.  Its operation is an important milestone in Klabin’s expansion cycle, which reinforces its capacity for sustainable growth combined with technology.

LinkedIn now has a brand new page dedicated to Industrial Data Analytics. We warmly welcome you to follow the page! On this page, you’ll be the first to hear about the latest Wedge news, but we’ll also share interesting articles related to process analytics more broadly.

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We had the pleasure of hosting a group of Paper Technology professionals from DACH area on their Paper Safari tour in Finland. Our process diagnostics system Wedge is of great interest especially to engineers working in the paper industry.

The Paper Safari is organized by The Association of Pulp and Paper Technology Finland.

One of the leading industry magazines, Paper360°, wrote an article about how the packaging giant DS Smith digitalizes its mills across Europe. We are happy that DS Smith chose our process data analytics system, Wedge, as the tool.

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Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s Karhula mill in Finland has chosen Wedge as a plant-wide online data analytics platform. Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s mills in Italy and Brazil have been satisfied Wedge customers for several years already.

“Our problem was data sharing. There was a lot of data, but managing it was slow and cumbersome. I wish I had known earlier that such a system existed.”
– Anssi Kokko, Manufacturing Process Engineer

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