Woodworking made izy
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It’s time to see the customer at the centre
History has been made, with the 7 woodworking machinery leaders coming together for the first time and teaming up to put the interest of their customers at the forefront.
Woodworking made izy is not about individual success, it is about each company’s ability to work for the greater achievement of an efficient ecosystem, whereby they each provide skills and know how, from technical, engineering to marketing, interacting for the very first time in an interconnected system for the sheer beauty of offering a solution needed by their customers.
For the 7 companies, such a ground-breaking decision to team up and put aside each individual’s competitive standpoint, was led by providing a joint solution to their customers and by vastly improving manufacturing processes.
For the 7 companies, such a ground-breaking decision to team up and put aside each individual’s competitive standpoint, was led by providing a joint solution to their customers and by vastly improving manufacturing processes.

Director of Systems Project Execution Edge Processing at HOMAG
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Seven world leaders in woodworking machinery industry, BIESSE, BÜRKLE, HOMAG, IMA SCHELLING, SCM, WEBER AND WEINIG, have worked together as a team in defining a standardized interface to connect all their woodworking machines, machine to machine, and machines to the customers’ Manufacturing Execution Systems. This means no individual interfaces need to be programmed and an overall control of the production process is readily put in place.
The project has been named izy, inspired by universal languages, and it has solved a communication problem in an easy and streamlined way.
The momentous standardized interface has taken three years to develop and has been created specifically for the woodworking industry so as to avoid individual definitions and programming for every interface for each brand and technology.
Woodworking made izy offers an Open Platform Communication United Architecture data exchange standard for machine-to-machine communication, with a dedicated language developed for the woodworking industry that connects the production data with the overall manufacturing management. The dedicated language, has been developed in cooperation with Umati (Universal Machine Technology Interface) offering customers an exceptional level of standardization.
How it works

A standardized interface connects machine to machine and machines to customers’ Manufacturing Execution Systems.
Any technology, either cutting, sizing, edgebanding, cnc machining centres, drilling, moulding up to assembling and packaging is simply connected on the shop floor. In future, the same way as you connect your printer in the office world, just as easily you will connect a WEINIG automatic profiling machine to an SCM cnc machining center, and just as easily add a Bürkle surface finishing system to the process.
Once the machines have been installed, there will follow a straightforward testing of the interface together with the software developers, adjusting it to improve the level of performance.
It’s not only a matter of connecting the machines together, it’s also being able to monitor the entire production process at a glance, identifying any weak points and acting swiftly, taking decisions on the data provided by the system concerning the entire cycle.
Benefits
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Before izy, connecting each machine to the manufacturing flow required weeks of technical assistance to develop tailored software and interface. Now it’s a matter of a simple click.
Beyond improving productivity, the customer will benefit from a cost effective system as izy reduces work and time on the manufacturing side, by not having to develop, test and check several interfaces from different suppliers and for each brand and technology. And this was the very first reason driving the idea.
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