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Andritz — EDANA Innovation Forum June 2025
29 slides from Andritz's conference presentation, June 2025
Slide 1: Paving the Way to Autonomy
PAVING THE WAY TO AUTONOMY THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF NONWOVEN MANUFACTURING
Slide 2: ANDRITZ Wins 2024 Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award
ANDRITZ WINS 2024 MICROSOFT INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING AWARD Our cutting-edge digital solutions empower autonomous operation of pulp mills Winner in the category Disrupt! Case: ANDRITZ: Paving the way for autonomous pulp mills Disrupt category honors • Digital transformation of the industrial value c
Slide 3: Why This Matters?
01 WHY THIS MATTERS ?
Slide 4: What Keeps Nonwoven Producers Awake at Night?
WHAT KEEPS NONWOVEN PRODUCERS AWAKE AT NIGHT? • Environmental Regulations • Costs/Profits • Safety • Reliability • People/skills Issues • Competitive pressures
Slide 5: Turning Operational Pain Points into Performance Gains
TURNING OPERATIONAL PAIN POINTS INTO PERFORMANCE GAINS From digitalizing the operator to digitalizing the entire plant, aiming for full plant autonomy PILLARS PROCESS ASSET OPERATOR PERFORMANCE RELIABILITY EMPOWERMENT Production-rate Availability Productivity BENEFITS Quality Maintenance costs Trans
Slide 6: What Does Autonomy Really Mean?
WHAT DOES AUTONOMY REALLY MEAN? Make decisions React to No previous independently previously programming unseen events Autonomy is the ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions and unforeseen situations, to act without human intervention
Slide 7: Building the Autonomous Mill – One Level at a Time
BUILDING THE AUTONOMOUS MILL – ONE LEVEL AT A TIME The ANDRITZ definition of levels of autonomy is based on the ARC Autonomous Operations Maturity Model. 5: Full autonomy
Slide 8: How to Meet the Autonomy Target?
HOW TO MEET THE AUTONOMY TARGET? PILLARS Process Performance Asset Reliability Operator Empowerment SOLUTIONS ! Advance Control Expert ACETM Risk-Based Management (RBM) Metris Copilot E A S U RA B L E V ALUE
Slide 9: Enabling Technologies for Process Performance
03 ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROCESS PERFORMANCE AUTONOMY
Slide 10: Process Performance: Advance Control Expert ACE
PROCESS PERFORMANCE A solution that merges process expert knowledge with control command • Precise, reliable and optimized process control • Automatically adapts to changing process dynamics, production demands, and equipment behaviour Advance Control Expert ACETM Benefits • Personal process expert
Slide 11: Process Performance
PROCESS PERFORMANCE APC Improves Process Stability and pushes the process to the most profitable operating point $ Specification Limit Profit Poor Control Improved Control Improved Profit by Changing Targets
Slide 12: Process Performance: Optimizer Twin
PROCESS PERFORMANCE : OPTIMIZER TWIN Benefits • A digital replica of your plant that LEVEL 3/4 illustrates its behaviour. Optimizer Twin • Facilitates anomaly detection. • Allows experimentation with various scenarios to optimize operations. LEVEL 2 • It integrates with Advanced Process Controls (AC
Slide 13: Process Performance
PROCESS PERFORMANCE Autonomous operation It enables process is a step-by-step anomaly detection and journey best way to react Combination of process experts' know-how and digital tools to continuously maintain production at its most efficient point
Slide 14: Asset Reliability / Risk Management
04 ASSET RELIABILITY / RISK MANAGEMENT
Slide 15: Asset Reliability: Predict Failures Before They Happen
ASSET RELIABILITY: PREDICT FAILURES BEFORE THEY HAPPEN Transition from Lagging to Leading Maintenance Practices Assets run to Scheduled Real-time sensor Data consolidation failure before maintenance to alerts for issues and predictive maintenance prevent algorithms breakdowns
Slide 16: Asset Reliability
ASSET RELIABILITY • Risk-Based Management is a strategic approach that focuses your maintenance efforts where they matter most—on the equipment and systems that pose the highest operational risk if they fail. • Instead of maintaining all assets on a fixed schedule (like in time-based or preventive m
Slide 17: Risk-Based Management Approach
RISK-BASED MANAGEMENT APPROACH Address necessary repairs at the appropriate time—neither prematurely nor delayed Overall Risk Equipment Criticality Factor Equipment Type Factor Aggregation Method per Risk Group Benefits • Reduced downtime and maintenance period • Decreased maintenance expenses Low R
Slide 18: Asset Reliability
ASSET RELIABILITY It calculates and The system monitors prioritizes risk complete asset health The Risk-Based Management provides a clear, visual risk map of the entire facility
Slide 19: Empowering Operators with AI Copilot
05 EMPOWERING OPERATORS WITH AI COPILOT
Slide 20: Operator Empowerment: AI Copilot
OPERATOR EMPOWERMENT: AI COPILOT Nonwoven line Metris Operator production Intelligence ML+ GenAI+ 1 2 3
Slide 21: Empower People to Go Beyond Data
EMPOWER PEOPLE TO GO BEYOND DATA Metris Copilot helps your people make the right decisions—faster, safer, and with more confidence BENEFITS • Utilize Generative AI to enhance seamless interaction between humans and machines. • Merges Microsoft’s machine learning capabilities with ANDRITZ Process int
Slide 22: Anomaly Detection and Solution Search
ANOMALY DETECTION AND SOLUTION SEARCH Rop to shape BENEFITS • When an anomaly is detected, Metris Copilot recommends actions • Metris Copilot searches for variables with anomalies and opens the trend with the related data. • When the anomaly is back to normal, the operator receives a notification
Slide 23: Empowering Operators with AI Copilot
EMPOWERING OPERATORS WITH AI COPILOT ! It acts as a real-time Copilot helps detect and digital assistant for prevent faults operators in any languages It enhances operator training and daily routines
Slide 24: Let's Do It Together
06 LET’S DO IT TOGETHER
Slide 25: Metris: Recognized by Industry, Trusted by Customers
METRIS: RECOGNIZED BY INDUSTRY, TRUSTED BY CUSTOMERS SOLUTIONS LEVEL 5 SOLUTIONS LEVEL 4 5 Solution Levels enabled by : SOLUTIONS LEVEL 3 SOLUTIONS LEVEL 2 SOLUTIONS LEVEL 1 SOLUTIONS LEVEL 0
Slide 26: Key Take Aways
KEY TAKE AWAYS • Autonomous operation combines advanced technology and deep nonwoven process expertise to help plants achieve greater autonomy, efficiency, and reliability—while keeping operators at the center • With proven solutions like ACE, Optimizer Twin, Metris Copilot, and Risk-Based Managemen
Slide 27: Thank You for Your Attention!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Mario RAISON Senior Manager Digital Products and Solutions Andritz Nonwoven & Textile CONTACT: mario.raison@andritz.com Connect with me on LinkedIn
Slide 28: ANDRITZ. For Growth That Matters.
ANDRITZ. FOR GROWTH THAT MATTERS.
Slide 29: Legal Disclaimer
LEGAL DISCLAIMER © ANDRITZ AG 2025 This presentation contains valuable, proprietary property belonging to ANDRITZ AG or its affiliates (“the ANDRITZ Group”), an d no licenses or other intellectual property rights are granted herein, nor shall the contents of this presentation form part of any sales