The KHS Group provides no fewer than 195 standard technical upgrades in its interactive conversion catalog. These enable service lives for existing machines to be greatly extended, resources to be conserved and current packaging styles to be specifically optimized through KHS’ Bottles & Shapes program for PET containers, for instance. The entire portfolio is directly accessible on both the KHS website and in the KHS Connect shop.
Investments in the machine base supplement the new machine business. Lots of bottlers are increasingly focusing on using their existing systems as efficiently and for as long as possible. KHS caters for this requirement with its conversion catalog of intelligent systems and solutions that are the technical cutting edge, also allowing outdated plant engineering that’s over 30 years old to successfully enter a second or even third life cycle. These modernizations bring entire lines into step with the current state of the art. Besides saving on resources, the portfolio aims to increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) – the key indicator of actual productivity derived from availability, performance and quality – for many years to come. With these targeted upgrades, beverage producers enable their machines to operate powerfully and cost-effectively for several decades.
Online and in KHS Connect
The conversion catalog can be browsed virtually on the KHS website, allowing the user to obtain an initial overview of the standard systems and solutions offered by KHS. The portfolio is also on KHS Connect, the interactive customer portal for all service issues. In the KHS Connect shop, a customizable filter function makes selection easier: precisely those conversions that are technically compatible with and available for the respective user’s machine park are shown as a summary. This specifically guides the browser to exactly the right conversion or upgrade for their relevant machine. Once this has been identified, a direct request can then be initiated in the system.
