HOSOKAWA GEN4

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Applied Smart Manufacturing Technologies

Hosokawa Gen4 can help powder processors meet today’s challenges of improving product quality, throughput rates, operational efficiencies and profits.

Utilising an easy-to-follow Understand, Monitor, Control methodology, Hosokawa Gen4 works with companies to provide a digital toolkit to enable them to optimise their people, powder processes, plant and much more. Combining human, machinery and controls know-how, solutions are tailored to the individual customer’s needs.

Technology + Process Experience

We blend operational technology, process technology and information and communication technology with Hosokawa’s processing industry expertise to effectively address the business challenges that companies in dry end processes face, putting them in charge of proactive smart manufacturing systems and regimes and ahead of competitors.

An in-house, smart manufacturing, demonstrator system, built within our Contract Manufacturing Facility in Runcorn links process equipment and controls, enabling us to enhance our productivity and competitiveness whilst delivering an improved service to our contract manufacturing customers.

See Smart Manufacturing in Action

Using virtual reality, live data streaming and the Hosokawa Gen4 App, visitors to the Hosokawa stand will be able to see for themselves the capabilities of the system applied at our contract processing facility – for production improvement, dynamic troubleshooting, remote monitoring, predictive maintenance and day-to day operational management.

Benefits to Your Business

The £1m investment across our Contract Manufacturing Facility allows us to share our knowledge and experience of applied digital technologies with others in the processing industries; giving you the opportunity to see for yourselves how this technology might benefit your business through:

Insights into all aspects of plant production performance
Real time asset status to aid decision making, scheduling
Single screen graphic display for full/zoned plant monitoring
Automated running to pre-set, optimised parameters
Remote access to all data, control systems and advisory information
Advisory alerts to managers on or off site
Predictive maintenance alerts

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Always at the forefront of processing innovation and with an extensive processing heritage, Hosokawa Micron Ltd provides a renowned single source supply of powder and particle processing equipment and services.

From our UK base in Runcorn, Cheshire we provide a full testing, design, installation and commissioning service to a wide range of industries in UK, Eire and overseas. Working closely and in partnership with customers from international, blue chip, conglomerates to small, regionally based enterprises, we strive to provide the optimum solution to individual size reduction, mixing, classifying, filling and weighing, screening, containment, nanotechnology and integrated processing and plant performance problems which deliver recognisable and tangible benefits.

Our engineering skills, extensive processing know-how and latest production and smart manufacturing technologies ensure that the high level of performance of our machines, and partnership approach to development of new technologies and processing solutions, are in demand by large and small companies alike seeking the production advantages that our expertise can offer. Projects typically range from R&D through to full turnkey installations in both the UK and overseas.

A new business unit, Hosokawa GEN4 can help companies meet the process industry challenges for smarter manufacturing. Hosokawa GEN4 leads the way by blending operational and information technology with processing industry expertise to deliver measurable manufacturing improvements to drive businesses forward through increased plant availability, lower operating costs and predicting any maintenance due.

The continued pioneering development of a variety of robust containment technologies for the handling and processing of hazardous materials makes Hosokawa Micron Ltd a leading supplier of downflow booths, isolator gloveboxes, filling and weighing systems and laminar flow booths across a variety of applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical, food, nuclear and defence industries.

Benefiting from the support and partnership of other members of the international Hosokawa Micron Group, we are able to deliver a comprehensive range of innovative products and technologies that meet the needs and aspirations of companies across pharmaceutical, chemical, food, metals, powder coatings, cosmetics, soaps and detergents, ceramics, toner, nuclear and plastics industries.

We are proud to offer customers a single source supply for integrated processing systems, component machinery and range of technical support services to meet individual requirements. We aim to set new standards in powder processing technologies that exceed expectations and deliver significant competitor advantage. Our philosophy is not just to offer a standard machine but to work alongside our customers and their engineering teams to provide value added solutions to processing problems and long term support in maintaining optimum operational performance and standards.