Real cases

Industrial AI for technical plastics processing plants

A custom technical plastics plant does not make a product: it makes other people's products. Injection molding, extrusion, corrugation, thermoforming and assembly live in the same building, often serving three markets with different rules — white goods, automotive and medical devices. That turns the shop into a machine for changing mold, color and standard several times a day.

In that context the problems are not a lack of technology: they are data that never arrives. The parameter sheet the technician writes by hand, the old extruder panel with no network, the lab spreadsheet the ERP cannot see, the resin delivery note somebody keys in fast while the truck waits. When the customer complains, all of that has to be rebuilt backwards — and whatever cannot be bounded gets over-contained.

Here you will find twelve concrete IRIS cases applied to this sub-sector, grouped by piece: Connect to capture what is lost today, Edge to see the line in real time, and Agents so the evidence organizes itself. Each case includes the problem as it appears on the shop floor, how the solution fits and what return to expect, in conservative ranges and always to be validated against each plant's own data.