TPT November 2020

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Marcegaglia named among the 2020 Global Awards for Steel Excellence winners

THE Marcegaglia group has won the award for ‘Best Operational Improvements’ and ‘Information Technology Services’ in the ‘2020 Global Awards for Steel Excellence’. The industrial group in steel transformation was nominated for five awards at the award ceremony, which took place in July 2020, however the annual dinner was not hosted this year due to COVID-19. The virtual ceremony can be watched online. According to a statement from Marce - gaglia Group: “These awards are the result of the strategic role that research and development has taken on in the Marcegaglia Group in recent years, focused on the continuous improvement of processes and the development of innovative solutions. For five years, an R&D structure has been implemented in the Ravenna plant, based on skills from bodies of excellence, which supports process engineering for the improve- ment of the production area and re- searches product solutions customised to customer needs.”

specifically, to what degree it can reduce the physical stress of their employees, helping them to carry out their tasks in a more comfortable way, reducing the risk of developing musculoskeletal pathologies over time. Developed by Comau in partnership with IUVO, a spin-off of the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, and ÖSSUR, an Icelandic company in the field of non- invasive orthopaedic devices, MATE is a passive mechanical exoskeleton has the capacity to support the shoulders and arms in their natural movement. It allows workers to feel less physical fatigue, thus improving the overall quality of their activities. Comau www.comau.com metallic materials, all magnetic and non- magnetic steels, to aluminium or copper alloys, starting from the hot rolling process. Smart Line, on the other hand, was born from the collaboration between Marcegaglia and Fives, from the combination of Tensil Pro and Fives’ great experience in industrial automation. Smart Line integrates all the coil transformation production processes starting from hot rolling up to the finished product. Tensil Pro and Smart Line allow the user to improve production costs thanks to energy saving and productivity increase, to obtain a greater homogeneity of mechanical characteristics (in particular for the automotive sector), to study quality and process trends as they vary of the input material (to alleviate the differences between the different supplies, steel makers). Marcegaglia www.marcegaglia.com

Margegaglia has won an award for steel excellence

Tensil Pro is an online detection system for the mechanical character- istics of materials. It was created to improve product quality and process efficiency. Tensil Pro is applied to all

Comau MATE is announced as the first EAWS-cer tified exoskeleton for safer lifting

COMAU MATE is the first exoskeleton on the market to receive the EAWS (Ergonomic Assessment Work-Sheet) certification, which attests its effective - ness in reducing the “risk of biomechani- cal overload” of the upper limbs. Based on the evaluation system promoted by Ergo Foundation, Italy’s reference for the organisation and measurement of work and ergonomics, the successful recognition studied

workers who used MATE to perform daily tasks requiring flexion-extension of the arms. “Comau is proud that the MATE exo - skeleton is awarded EAWS certification from the Ergo Foundation”, explained Duilio Amico, marketing and network de - velopment director of Comau Robotics & Automation Products. “This result is a further confirmation of the importance of investing in the development of innova- tive devices, as wearable robotics, to improve the way operators work and make production processes safer and more sustainable”. This certification proves Comau meets the expectations of companies that need to understand concretely how an industrial exoskeleton like MATE can impact their operations. More

The first exoskeleton to receive the EAWS award

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