Quality Assurance Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
BST Eltromat International’s iPQ-Center offers flexo and gravure printing companies comprehensive ways of controlling and assuring their production quality. The history of the modular solution suite reflects the dynamism with which quality requirements in the packaging industry have developed over the decades. It also documents how BST eltromat is proactively driving this development forward. At the same time, a glance at the history of the iPQ-Center allows conclusions to be drawn for further development in the age of Industry 4.0.
“We entered the quality assurance systems market as a manufacturer at a time when web guiding technology was increasingly going electronic,” says BST eltromat’s Head of Product Development for Web Handling Jürgen Bettführ. He is referring to the year 1979, w