Walter-Comara Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 solutions

Waukesha, Wisconsin – In a move designed to further its commitment to and enhance its support of customers in the U.S. and around the world who are striving to meet the challenges of 21st century manufacturing, Walter has joined with long-standing software partner Comara to create a new company under joint leadership.

“This is a key step in our drive to provide our customers in North America and around the world with Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 solutions,” notes Mirko Merlo, president of Walter AG.

This is not a new goal for either of these companies. Walter, now with the majority stake in the new company, is continuing to pursue its evolution from a tool manufacturer to a provider of comprehensive production solutions. Comara, meanwhile, has been working closely with Walter since 2012 on connectivity and Smart Manufacturing issues, building on its strengths in collecting, evaluating and using real-time data to connect machines. Together with Walter, the company also develops software solutions for connecting all devices in the production environment: From machines and tools through to logistics and databases.

The synergies made possible by the new Walter-Comara collaboration will enable Walter to digitize and to connect tools with greater precision and sophistication and optimize them using real-time data. Combined with the existing Walter Tool?ID system allows the user to transfer tool data from the pre-setting device to the machine tool and to evaluate the parameters that are run on the machine. This will give rise to the production of Smart Tools in the future.

And Comara, with its appCom, offers machine manufacturers and industrial companies their own platform for individual apps – special software modules geared to the production environment. In collaboration with Walter, the aim is to develop further solutions and make them available to additional machine and device manufacturers and end users.

About Walter USA LLC
Walter, a global leader in the metalworking industry with over 90 years of experience in precision cutting tools for milling, drilling, turning, boring, and specialized tools, helps customers improve process reliability and increase productivity. With Regional Headquarters in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Walter markets its competence brands Walter Valenite, Walter Titex, Walter Prototyp, and Walter Multiply through a strong network of distributors and field engineers across subsidiaries in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.

About Comara
Comara GmbH specializes in software solutions for industry. It supplies leading machine manufacturers, the automotive industry, and technology leaders with its production assistance systems, process, and machine data logging for real-time optimization and solutions for the Internet of Things. Comara GmbH was founded in 2004 and has been majority-owned by Walter AG since October 2016.

Source: Walter USA LLC