HEGLA and HEGLA-HANIC together for the potential of Industry 4.0
The opportunities, possibilities and potential of the digital future are at the centre of the HEGLA-HANIC GmbH vision, the founding of which was agreed between the shareholders of machine and equipment manufacturer HEGLA and software specialist HANIC. Jochen H. Hesselbach (LEWAG Holding AG CEO) and Heinz-Dietmar Hantke (HANIC founder and shareholder) described the strategic background to this decision: “With HEGLA-HANIC GmbH, we will be able to combine and further strengthen both companies’ efforts in embarking on a course towards Industry 4.0 and the associated holistic view and optimisation of our customers’ value chain in an ideal manner.”
The two parties will benefit from each other’s know-how and sector-specific professional perspective, stressed Frank Schürmann (LEWAG Holding AG CFO) and HEGLA-HANIC’s Managing Director Klaus Engel. They added that HEGLA was one of the sector’s technological leaders and had gained several decades of experience and understanding in the area of mechanical engineering and plant construction for storage, loading, cutting, automatic residual sheet handling and sorting of flat glass. HANIC is well-known in the glass-processing industry for intelligent manufacturing control systems, efficient software solutions for cutting and workflow optimisation as well as MES and ERP systems, added Bernhard Hötger (HEGLA Managing Director and HEGLA-HANIC GmbH Managing Director).
“The defined goal of the venture is to jointly unlock the potent...