“People with visions should go see a doctor”
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3.1 For a company or an organisation, a vision statement is a declaration of objectives, intended to guide its internal decision-making and serving as a foundation for a broader strategic plan.
When the vision is formulated or set down in writing, it becomes a mission statement, providing the foundation for the company’s strategic orientation. Pursuing a vision in a consistent manner helps a company to differentiate itself from others. Within the company, a shared vision increases people’s willingness and will to implement change.
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, Thomas Edison, Robert Bosch, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Marc Zuckerberg: without the courage of visionary thinkers – of which only a few prime examples are listed here – many things in the world would not have been changed or even been possible. All these people have one thing in common: they look into our future and actively help to shape it.
The meaning of the word ‘vision’ as a ‘supernatural apparition’ or as ‘seeing something in a trance’ is also what the former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was referring to when he said in 1980: ‘People with visions should go see a doctor.” Since then, the word has been widely re-interpreted and now has a much more positive connotation, subsequently moving into the focus of entrepreneurs and us citizens.
Ever since, a vision is understood as something that drives us. Each and every day, it motivates us to get up and to go out, to leave our comfort zone and to work on turning our vision into a reality.
Similar aspirations can be found on almost all corporate websites. The mission statement, providing the foundation for communication and actions, and which also has an impact on services and products, consists of the values, the mission and – you have guessed it – the vision. In this context, vision refers to a future status the company seeks to achieve whilst also serving as a fundamental orientation for staff.
Future mechanical engineering is characterised by various trends and technologies. Being aware of these trends and the resulting changes, HELLER is continuously working on solutions responding to the permanently changing challenges of its customers.
An essential requirement on companies from the industry is to ensure maximum availability of their machines. According to HELLER, automation significantly contributes to achieving this. The technical possibilities range from simple pallet changers, linear and rotary pallet magazines or flexible loading robots through to combinations with rack systems, also for tool storage. The question of automation becomes really interesting when a manufacturing system comprises several machine tools within the process chain. For this, there is a wide spectrum of solutions – from simple linkage using conveyors and grippers or flexible solutions based on a centralised workpiece handling system through to a synchronised transferline. All these automation solutions increase the absolute availability and flexibility of the production solution in the long term.
The potentials offered by conventional means used to increase the productivity of machine tools are believed to have almost been fully exploited in recent years. Therefore, many machine tool manufacturers now take the approach of combining information and production technologies using Industry 4.0 solutions. The objective of all considerations, possibilities and solutions for digitisation must remain the reduction of the customer’s cycle times, and thus workpiece costs, by providing a high level of productivity. Already today, HELLER is generating sustainable added values for customers through greater ease of use of the machine, optimal integration into networks and expanded functionalities and service possibilities. Despite this, the focus remains on machining. However, Industry 4.0 provides many possibilities for optimising machining processes.
With Industry 4.0, HELLER aims to enhance the transparency of the current machine status and to evaluate the information gained in combination with existing data to allow purposeful diagnostics. With the holistic HELLER4Industry concept, the company contributes to increased machine productivity and supports consistent engineering chains – a genuine added value for the future. In “Full steam into the digital future”, you can read more about HELLER’s development as a company up to the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Increasingly smaller batch sizes, short lead times and growing component complexity require optimisation and streamlining of the manufacturing process. HELLER takes a clear stance in this regard: machining centres must not only meet today’s requirements, they need to have the capability to be used efficiently throughout their entire life cycle. With highly productive, universal machining centres and the required application engineering expertise, the machine tool manufacturer lays the foundations for visionary expansions in terms of an ‘intelligent mix of technologies’. By adding technology and process know-how, a standard machining centre is transformed into an effective tool for efficient complete machining. Additionally, the integration of a diverse range of technological processes helps to expand the application portfolio of the products and to strengthen the partnership with customers. Strong partnerships again are important because any challenges in terms of production technology using non-standard solutions can only be met in cooperation with the customers. In “HELLER – customer-oriented. Innovative. Efficient.”, we are presenting two great examples of how expertise can be efficiently combined as part of a collaboration.
Already in 2012, a survey conducted by VDMA among its members revealed that, among other things, the increasing complexity is a major trend in mechanical engineering. In this issue of HELLER the Magazine, the association is again “[i]nvestigating the future of machinery and plant engineering”. Despite political uncertainties, the forecasts for the global economic situation in 2019 remain cautiously optimistic and the global consumption in machine tools is expected to remain at a high level. HELLER expects this development to be reflected in the major submarkets. Such trends as well as shorter innovation cycles, growing material and component variety and complexity and constant cost pressure pose challenges to enterprises within the industry if they want to remain competitive. To achieve this, quick and easy-to-understand, modular and flexible products and services can provide a competitive advantage, with a distinct service orientation becoming increasingly important for companies in the industry. In the last issue of our magazine, we presented the HELLER4Use usage model as a response to the challenges of modern production and as a solution providing a new level of flexibility. In this issue, a project example from Poland illustrates how HELLER’s other services help to meet unusually complex requirements.
Sensorisation is another trend topic, referring to the increasing acquisition of data about the machine’s environmental conditions using technical systems and sensors. As it is increasingly in demand in the context of Industry 4.0, HELLER promotes the evaluation of existing machine sensors and supports the networking of machines using services on network computers. The company Balluff based in the Stuttgart region specialises in intelligent sensor solutions. The featured articles in this issue of HELLER the Magazine include a report on “sending measurement values without contact” by the supplier of high-quality sensor, identification and network solutions.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a much discussed topic, offering significant opportunities, which are increasingly recognised and seized in production. Already today, AI is increasingly applied in real production environments where it is used to identify patterns in the machine data captured by a range of sensors, helping, for example, to prevent damage to the systems. AI provides the foundation for self-configuring and self-optimising machines, thus enabling a whole new kind of collaboration between man and machine. The use of AI helps to make the so-called smart factory or self-controlling factory a reality. In the report featured in this magazine, you can read how the German Academic Association for Production Technology (WGP) is helping to promote this megatrend. Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are further technologies increasingly used throughout the manufacturing industry. For example, relevant applications make it possible to already check in a project’s planning phase whether the machine’s position in the manufacturing line is correct and safety standards are adhered to. Users are able to see their entire manufacturing ‘landscape’ even before it physically exists. In terms of service, AR and VR, for example, help to make training easier to understand and more interactive and also help to optimise maintenance through the use of visualisation. Since 2017, HELLER has been using virtual reality to convey users a hands-on experience of its machines at major trade shows with the so-called HELLER Cube.
You can read what happened throughout the 125 years and how HELLER became the company it is today in ‘Tradition meets innovation’. In celebration of the major company anniversary, the brothers Hubert and Berndt Heller, who were involved in the leadership of the company for more than four decades, took the opportunity to reflect on the past and to take a look into the future in an interview for HELLER the Magazine. We also conducted an interview with Klaus Winkler and Manfred Maier, the current Managing Directors of the HELLER Group – there you can learn more about the company’s past and current objectives regarding various trends.
You can read what happened throughout the 125 years and how HELLER became the company it is today in ‘Tradition meets innovation’. In celebration of the major company anniversary, the brothers Hubert and Berndt Heller, who were involved in the leadership of the company for more than four decades, took the opportunity to reflect on the past and to take a look into the future in an interview for HELLER the Magazine. We also conducted an interview with Klaus Winkler and Manfred Maier, the current Managing Directors of the HELLER Group – there you can learn more about the company’s past and current objectives regarding various trends.
You can read what happened throughout the 125 years and how HELLER became the company it is today in ‘Tradition meets innovation’. In celebration of the major company anniversary, the brothers Hubert and Berndt Heller, who were involved in the leadership of the company for more than four decades, took the opportunity to reflect on the past and to take a look into the future in an interview for HELLER the Magazine. We also conducted an interview with Klaus Winkler and Manfred Maier, the current Managing Directors of the HELLER Group – there you can learn more about the company’s past and current objectives regarding various trends.