Interview with Marco Tanner

Pandia: What prompted the use of Pandia?

Interview: "It was a real emergency," recalls CEO Marco Tanner. In the middle of high-speed tests at his company in Winterthur, the PET preforms kept jumping out of line – and nobody knew why. At 8:55 PM, Tanner grabbed his phone: "Mauro, we need you now." Two minutes later, the answer came.

Pandia: How did the collaboration come about?

Interview: Through a LinkedIn post, Tanner became aware of Nart's service. Later, the two met at an event, exchanged contacts, and last fall things got serious. Late in the evening, Mauro Nart drove to Marco Tanner's company with a small black suitcase to install his technology.

Pandia: What's in the Pandia suitcase?

Interview: "Everything you need is in this suitcase," says Nart. Inside: four smartphones with mounts, a laptop, and chargers. "That's it." That same night, he showed Tanner how the system works.

Pandia: How was the problem solved?

Interview: At one of the machines, PET preforms kept getting blocked. Up to 100,000 preforms are conveyed per hour – so fast that you can't see anything with the naked eye. The AI program detected the error using the video cameras. A slow-motion recording showed where the problem was. Tanner's father immediately recognized that a small ramp was missing. Without Mauro's technology, we would probably have had to analyze for weeks. This way, we could solve the problem overnight.

Pandia: How do you see the future of AI in production?

Interview: "We have to get faster and better all the time, technology is simply part of that," says Tanner with conviction. Mauro Nart hopes for more openness toward innovative new methods and tools to prevent machine failures and avoid costly delays.