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Die-casting foundries must deliver consistently high-quality parts despite rising costs, production interruptions and a shortage of experienced specialists. The digital services platform Bühler Insights helps meet these challenges by increasing process transparency, uptime, and good-part production.

Bühler’s vision focuses on three connected goals: reducing cycle time, maximizing availability, and eliminating scrap. Digitalization supports these goals by transforming machine and cell data into actionable information. It does not replace process expertise but makes it easier to apply and share.

Bühler’s Digital Services operate across three levels. Die-casting machines provide optimized process settings, cell automation coordinates production and ensures traceability, and Bühler Insights collects, analyzes, and visualizes the resulting data. The platform automatically tracks interruptions, identifies the issues with the greatest impact and monitors corrective actions. It also detects deviations from target values and alerts specialists before they affect quality. Customized dashboards support production meetings, maintenance planning, and troubleshooting.

By providing the right information at the right time, Bühler Insights enables foundries to reduce downtime and scrap while producing more good parts with existing equipment.