HIGH-TECH HAWKE’S BAY ENGINEERING BUSINESS FOR SALE The Patton Group offers a consistent and significant profit history. Its reputation in the market is second to none; supported by highly skilled, long term and reliable employees. High profile projects and brands have included large retail stores, bridges, cycle ways and grandstands amongst other large engineering projects. There is a strong pipeline of future work and significant opportunities for growth for an astute investor are evident. This is truly a rare opportunity for a potential buyer. www.engineeringnews.co.nz 11 IS YOUR CAD READY FOR INDUSTRY 4.0? Is your CAD system ready for Industry 4.0 and the additive manufacturing revolution? If not then you need to check out Creo 4.0. Creo 4.0 has sophisticated augmented reality, IoT and now 3D additive manufacturing tools directly within the CAD including: Rapid lattice creation - One of the best ways to optimise your structure with less mass is to design using lattices. Creo 4.0 allows for parametrically-controlled lattice structures, allowing them to be easily varied and optimised. Upfront printability validation – Depsite designing something that looks cool in CAD, you may still not be able to 3D print it. Creo helps by running a printability check before printing. Easy print tray management - The position of your models in the printer is important. It determines how long to print, how much material is used, and whether the finished product will work correctly. Creo manages how your models sit on the print tray, including nesting multiple components for maximum efficiency. With Creo 4.0 you design your entire project in the same environment, all the way from concept development through to the printer. LEAP Australia Phone: 09 9777 444 info@leapaust.com.au | www.leapaust.com.au A high-tech Hawke’s Bay engineering business is on the market for the first time in over 60 years. The Patton Group is a long-established and profitable engineering and construction business with national reach. This well-known business has a large, high value customer base in the infrastructure, construction, dairy, winery and fruit growing and packing sectors. Services provided include sheet metal, precision and machining, structural and non-structural steelwork, sandblasting and coating, stainless steel, erection, design and fabrication. Mike Fokkens, LINK Auckland, Ellerslie Link Business Broking Ltd (Lic REAA08) Phone: 021 598 188 | michael.fokkens@linkbusiness.co.nz BOGE SHAPES THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRY 4.0 Boge Compressors has made it a development task to pave the way for the fourth industrial revolution in compressed air technology. In the Smart Factory of the future, compressed air technologies automatically communicate with connected peripheral equipment. The foundation for this is laid down in the selfdescribing communication protocol OPC Unified Architectures. In cooperation with users, the Bielefeld family company is developing standards for intelligent component networking. The goal is to ensure that the system adapts itself to the requirements and operates with maximum energy efficiency. New components should also simply be able to integrate into the system by 'Plug-and- Pressure'. “The intelligent networking of compressed air generators and consumers of compressed air opens up a wide range of opportunities to monitor, control and optimise the entire system topology," says Peter Boldt, head of development at Boge. As one of the first manufacturers of compressed air solutions, Boge is working on an integrated networking approach which takes the process technologies connected to compressed air into consideration. “The communication protocol from OPC Unified Architectures (OPC UA) is, as an open standard interface for Industry 4.0 applications, one of the most promising solutions in Europe.” www.boge.com/en
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