Innovation thanks to sustainability: our products, solutions, and services
Our machines, equipment, and software offerings are indispensable in many industries. Our employees and their commitment and ideas enable Körber to create cutting-edge technology that shapes the future. In doing so, our vision is to achieve market leadership through technological leadership.
“We are passionate about developing innovations for sustainable products, solutions, and services — together with employees, customers, suppliers as well as other business partners.“
Stephan Seifert
Chairman of the Group Executive Board of Körber AG
Our four Business Areas Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain, and Technologies offer thrilling products, solutions, and services.
Here’s an overview:
Our Business Areas
Digital
Our Business Area Digital develops digital products, services, and solutions that make industrial manufacturing more efficient and sustainable with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). As a company builder, it uses AI, data science, and deep tech in its ventures — creating measurable value for partners and customers. This Business Area also promotes the digital advancement of the entire Group.
Pharma
Our Business Area Pharma offers a broad range of integrated solutions along the entire pharmaceutical value chain. As a result of its extensive experience with consulting, inspection, transport systems, packaging machines and materials, and software, Körber offers appropriate solutions for exploiting its customers’ productivity and business potential.
Supply Chain
Our Business Area Supply Chain offers a broad range of tried and tested supply chain solutions. The portfolio includes software, automation, mail and parcel solutions, voice solutions, as well as robotics and transport systems. Customers benefit significantly from Körber’s expertise with systems integration. It connects all components with each other and ensures smooth handling of processes in complex warehousing systems.
Technologies
Our Business Area Technologies develops and integrates customized solutions in the areas of machinery, equipment, software, measuring instruments, flavors, and service offerings with a focus on the tobacco and tobacco products industries.
The examples below show the products, solutions, and services that the Business Areas offer to make their contribution to sustainability.
Business Area Digital
InspectifAI
For a more sustainable pharmaceuticals production
InspectifAI uses intelligent algorithms and continuous learning from data to optimize the inspection processes in pharmaceuticals production, thus making an essential contribution to sustainability.
Compared to conventional inspection machines, the AI-based solution impresses due to its versatility and precision during visual inspection of drugs. The latter is crucial for patient safety while also preventing the unnecessary discarding of perfectly good drugs. Precise inspection significantly reduces the number of errors, ensuring an increase in drug quality and a significant reduction in waste. Technological innovation contributes to the production of high-quality drugs without consuming excessive resources and enables the pharmaceutical industry to implement more efficient, more sustainable production processes.
Value4Data
Data for sustainable decisions
The Value4Data initiative creates the technical basis for implementing sustainability projects across the Group.
The initiative provides a data lake and digital tools for data acquisition, storage, management, analysis and visualization as a foundation for data handling and analysis, which the Körber Group can use directly. These can be used to undertake sustainability projects for internal and external purposes which are related to the carbon emissions footprint of our machines and the associated analysis of carbon emissions.
Value4Data can serve as a basis for deriving measures for sustainable production within the context of the Green Digital Twin. During this process, data are utilized from various sources along the value chain and analyzed using AI-based technologies.
Business Area Pharma
Switch 75
For greater resource efficiency
The compact, fully automatic Switch 75 is a visual inspection machine for vials and syringes and helps to ensure sustainable production thanks to its flexibility and efficient processes.
The Switch 75 can be quickly retooled and offers numerous connectivity options for further data processing. With a footprint of a mere 4 m², the machine performs safe, reproducible inspections of small batches in line with regulations without glass contact for the inspected products. Its compact design ensures that only a few format parts are needed for a product change. This means manufacturers can make a swifter change between individual orders than otherwise possible thanks to a high-performance machine. Switch 75 boosts the efficient use of resources by enhancing efficiency in production processes, particularly for small batches.
As the first flexible inspection machine for vials and syringes, Switch 75 impresses from a financial and ecological perspective since producers only need one inspection machine for different application options.
Werum PAS-X as a Service
Producing drugs safely and efficiently
As a leading provider of software solutions for pharma, biotech, and cell and gene therapy, the software business in the Business Area Pharma aims to improve efficiency and compliance with regulations in factories. The core of our offering is Werum PAS-X MES. This market-leading pharma MES software automates customers’ business processes throughout the entire pharma value chain.
Werum PAS-X as a service offers the advantages of the MES software in a fully managed, cloud-based version. The userfriendly software controls, monitors and documents the production process throughout the entire manufacturing cycle digitally in real time. It thus increases efficiency in production sequences and helps companies to minimize manual tasks and reduce paperwork. The software also helps to reduce the error rate during production. Thanks to greater efficiency, companies can improve their productivity and scalability and speed up market launches.
This all means that our customers save energy and resources, thus achieving their sustainability targets while unlocking their full business potential.
Business Area Supply Chain
VarioSort Gen. V 5.0
For an energy-saving drive
The latest generation of the electric cross-belt sorter platform VarioSort is equipped with a new, highly efficient linear motor as the main drive to move carriers.
This new drive is significantly quieter and more energy-efficient compared to the preceding solution. With our new linear motors, we have achieved an energy saving of more than 40 percent in our sorter drive both in the laboratory and during the field test.
Smart design
For a reduced demand for transport capacity
We have completely re-designed the pallet conveyance technology with priority given to optimizing the packaging and transportation process.
Thanks to the completely new design, conveyance components can now be installed directly on customers’ premises. This reduces the required transport capacity to customers by around two-thirds. For a standard project, three truck loads are now required instead of nine.
Business Area Technologies
Energy Optimizer
For sustainable energy management
Our Energy Optimizer is an innovative energy management solution. This system interlinks all machines in a production facility, providing a detailed analysis and management of energy consumption.
The software focuses on reducing the carbon emission footprint and energy costs based on transparent data collection and evaluation. It uses AI and algorithms to detect consumption patterns and identify optimization options. It offers functions which provide monitoring, optimization, analysis, warning and reporting.
With Energy Optimizer, manufacturers can design their production process more efficiently and significantly improve their ecological footprint.
New filter solutions
For biodegradable final products
With biodegradable filters, the Körber Business Area Technologies offers an environmentally friendly filter solution, providing a response to the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive and increasing environmental awareness.
Filters are made of biodegradable materials, suitable for both traditional cigarettes and next generation products. The filter solutions are not only environmentally friendly; they also meet demanding requirements for taste and smoke behaviour and are also compatible with existing production processes.
These sustainable filter solutions make an important contribution to greater sustainability in the tobacco industry and help manufacturers to comply with regulatory requirements.