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DigiTrail at the Swiss Museum of Transport: Datwyler is committed to bringing digitalization to life.

News | June 28, 2022

Nine companies in Central Switzerland are demonstrating their relationship to digitalization as part of a temporary exhibition at the Swiss Museum of Transport – the interactive “Digi-Trail” – and making the concept a playful experience. Datwyler is present with a computer simulation that the company uses to train its production employees.

In mid-June, Datwyler officially opened its station on the interactive «DigiTrail» at the Swiss Museum of Transport. There, visitors can test a computer simulation of the company as a game. In reality, Datwyler uses this as virtual training for its production employees to keep production standards at the highest level. So it is “More than just a game” after all, as Frank Schön, Chief Technical Officer at Datwyler, points out.

It is more than just a game.

Dr. Frank Schön

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

DigiTrail at the Swiss Museum of Transport:
Visiting family at the Datwyler station
Source: Verkehrshaus der Schweiz / VHS

More safety thanks to digitalization

Datwyler supplies the pharmaceutical industry, among others, with elastomer components for syringes and medicine vials. Customers include manufactures of Covid 19 vaccines, for example. Quality and purity are top priorities here. In order to avoid undesirable reactions with the filled active ingredient or health consequences for the patient, specific measures must be taken to ensure that medication vials are not closed with an incorrect or contaminated rubber stopper.

Between all the highly automated production processes of Industry 4.0, there are still work steps that have to be performed by humans. This is where digital possibilities such as virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) can help. At Datwyler’s Italian site in Pregnana, for example, employees practice using various production systems thanks to a computer simulation. This checks whether the employees are doing everything correctly and also points out mistakes. In this way, they can keep learning and real production remains undisturbed.