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Exhibition Report

つながる Factory
IntegratedFactory Automation
Automation
We exhibited our solutions at IGAS2022(International Graphic Art Show) held at Tokyo
Big Sight during 24th to 28th of November, 2022.
We'd like to show our appreciation to all of you
who have visited our Horizon booth.
Under our concept "Integrated Factory
Automation", we successfully proposed oursmart factory solutions in our largest booth ever,showing the latest technology such as workflow
systems by 7 different companies, printer inline solutions integrated by iCE LiNK, and theautomatic sheet delivering demonstrations by
AGV from the booth of printer companies.
At the East Hall 6, we also held the Smart Factory
IGAS2022 collaborating with 11 other industryleading companies to raise our common ideas
for achieving the smart factory. We had 23
seminars and panel discussions about smart
factory in printing industry (only in Japanese).

1IGAS2022 共同企画

The SMART FACTORY ZONE gave a great
impact to visitors at IGAS2018. It has comeback with upgraded contents this year at
East Hall 6. The wall decoration with 12
hexagonal panels with company names
on expresses the Horizon's booth concept"Integrated Factory Automation".
Total 26 seminars including the casestudies shown by the companies who
has been navigating a great success inthis rapidly changing industry,
discussion about future vision,
introducing their latest technology,
and collaborating presentations
Videoshave been conducted in 5 days.

We also exhibited the ART x TECH ZONE outside the SMART
FACTORY ZONE booth. The concept was the combination(harmony) of Art and latest technology of printing. 4 paper
art costumes were made by the collaboration with the 4different printer companies and Japanese designer brand"fair enough", taking advantage of each press's feature. We
also exhibited the iCE BINDER BQ-500 and iCE TRIMMER HT300 with the unique machine wrapping. This anime-looking
design was created by a student of Kyoto University of theArts by rearranging the scene from one of the most famous
Japanese traditional art UKIYOE. This system was shown as theautomated solution by utilizing the robot arm and AGV. Thisidea of combining the traditional art and latest technology wasadmired by many visitors.

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Exhibition Report

1iCE STITCHLINER MarkⅤ

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2

Inline Cut Sheet printer & Book Production

Signature Gatherer Inline
Book Production System

Inline SmartStacker & Book Production

5Folder with Palletizing Robot

Stage A

1614

AFV-566FKTAF-408F
iCE STITCHLINERMarkⅤ

151017PJ-200
18APC-660

AFV-566SF/TV-564SF

22Workflow Zone

Inline SmartStacker & Book
Production Rotary Die
iCE STITCHLINER Mark ⅣCut System

1611Inline Pocket
Folder System

Inline Cut Sheet printer & Book
Production

13Hard Cover Maker

29312The iCE STITCHLINER Mark V is our rollThis is our inline book production
T h i s s o l u t i o nMeetinge n a b l e sSpacevariable
to-booklet saddlestitcher that achieves
solution that processes B2 printed sheet
book production with no operator
high productivity with a maximum
into perfect bound books. An AGV brings
makereadies. Two presses (one for book
Case Bind Book BlockBookProduction
Plow Foldproduction
speed of 6,000 booklets perRobot Arm
palletsloadedwith B2 printed sheets
blocks and one for cover sheets) are
Production System
Production
Systemscored andhour.BookSheets
are individually
to our SmartStacker infeed section forconnected inline, with the cover sheets
plow-folded before stitching for sharp
automated loading. The SmartStacker
being printed based on book-blockspines and tight folds.
is equipped with inspection devices bycontents and then automatically fed into
DAC ENGINEERING for high-level quality
a binder. Book blocks are processedcontrol.
with our SmartSlitter and then fed into
Inline Cut Sheet Press & Die Cutting
the binder with a robotic arm.
Horizon × Rengo

8Stage B

23★

7Signature Gatherer Inline Book
Production System

Folder with Palletizing Robot
Outdoor
Gears

Information

Inline Cut Sheet Press& Cut Sheet Processing

345This solution is designed to produce
books from offset-printed signaturesand features our gatherer, book block
feeder, 4-clamp perfect binder andthree-side trimmer all connected inline.
Palletized signatures will be transported
by an AGV from the Folder with
Palletizing Robot System.

This B1-to-signature production
system eliminates all manual labor
involved with transportation, loading,and palletizing by utilizing an AGV androbotic arm.

STAGEA

We introduced 5 different demonstrations
collaborating with printer companies atstage A presentation. The highlight was
the automated sheet delivering between
neighboring booths of printer companies andthe Horizon booth utilizing the AGVs. Thesesheet delivering solutions between different
booths were successfully shown for the firsttime at IGAS exhibition.

Demonstration with AGV（Automatic Guided Vehicle)
AGV（Sheet Transportation）

The sheets were printed by Revoria Press
B2 (tentative name) at the FUJIFILM GlobalGraphic Systems CO., Ltd and delivered to thefeed section of SmartStacker by AGV.

12FUJIFILM Global Graphic
Systems CO., Ltd.

435

RYOBI MHI Graphic
TechnologyLtd.

Stage A

1614151718

6The sheets (A4 duplex 16-page) were printedby RMGT 970PF-8 at the RYOBI MHI Graphic
Technology Ltd. and delivered to the feeder ofFolder with Palletizing Robot system by Nipper(AGV).

STAGEB

2211101298Stage B

Workflow Zone

137Meeting Space23★
Information

We introduced 6 different demonstrations at stage B. Our newly developed BBS-56
book block maker was shown for the first time collaborating with the neighboring
Miyakoshi booth. We also exhibited the inline production systems collaboratingwith 3 different printer companies as automated solutions for digital press andpost-press.

By collaborating with Miyakoshi, 2 different
books (B5 and A4 sizes with differentthicknesses) were produced at production
speed of 800 books per hour.

45Folder with Palletizing Robot

Exhibition Report

Stage A

161410AFV-566FKT AF-408F

15iCE STITCHLINER Mark Ⅳ

17PJ-20018
APC-660

AFV-566SF/TV-564SF

2211

Inline Pocket
Folder System

69Robot Arm Book Production

Plow Fold
Book Production System

Workflow Zone

Rotary Die
Cut System

8

Inline Cut Sheet Press & Die Cutting

13

Hard Cover Maker

12

Case Bind Book Block
Production System

23

Horizon × Rengo

7Stage B

Meeting Space

OutdoorGears★
Information

Inline Cut Sheet Press& Cut Sheet Processing

Plow Fold Book Production SystemThis roll-to-book solution allows forbook-of-one production at a highproduction speed of up to 800 books
per hour. A plow-fold book block
system in integrated inline with ourbook block feeder, perfect binder, andvariable trimmer to allow for roll-tobook production in one pass.

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Inline Cut Sheet Press & Cut Sheet
Processing

Inline Cut Sheet Press & Die Cutting

Robot Arm Book Production

789Inline system with the CANON's
imagePRESS C810 and ourSmartSlitter. The connected CSD40SMSL Card Stacker allows for theprecise stacking with accurate count.
To synchronize with the speed ofdigital press and SmartSlitter, theSBM-100 universal buffering module
is connected.

This system connected with the Konica
Minolta's AccurioPress C14000 allows
for business card production in onepass. The cut alignment and print quality
is inspected by DAC Engineering's
Prenity scanners. The robot-handbanding section (under development)
is equipped for further automation ofbusiness card production.

This print-to-book production solution
features inline robotic feeding to allow
for continuous production. Book blocks
are printed by the Riso's VALEZUS
T2200 digital press, fed into our single
clamp perfect binder with a roboticarm, and then finished with our threeside trimmer.

This inline solution allows for highmix, low-volume case preparation fromany type of book block by integrating
our end sheet feeder, loose-sheet
book block feeder, perfect binder,
gauze applicator, and trimmer into onesystem. The RFID tags are planted inboth hard and soft cover books in ourdemonstration for appealing the useof scanned data for address printing,progress checking, etc.

Case Bind Book Block Production System

12iCE STITCHLINER Mark Ⅳ

Inline Pocket Folder SystemFolders

101114・15
14・15・・16

The iCE STITCHLINER Mark IV is oursheet-to-booklet saddlestitcher thatfeatures further improved automation
and binding quality. This user-friendly
system provides increased efficiency
and stable binding quality to meetvarious market needs.

This inline system features our rotarydie cutting, gluing unit, and buckle
folder to make pocket folders withenvironmentally friendly materials.

At the folder zone, AF-408F fully
automated 8-buckle folder, iCE FOLDER
AFC-566SF suitable for digitally printed
sheets, and iCE FOLDER AFC-566FKTwith various functions includes fully
automated changeover.

Rotary Die Cut System

RENCUSHION PACK

Outdoor Gears

2223

The system is configured withFFU-N4055 sheet feeder, RD-N4055DM
rotary die cutter, and SPC-N4055
separator connected with the stacker &delivery unit (under development). Thisstacker & delivery unit combines theseveral stacks into one before delivery
for the smooth picking operation.

This is the automated packaging
system RENCUSHION PACK for allpaper, cushion envelope packaging thateliminates the need for adhesives andbubble wrap. The RFID tags are plantedin both hard and soft cover books in ourdemonstration for appealing the useof scanned data for address printing,progress checking, etc.

Workflow Zone

Div-Horizon exhibited our camp gear
products which have been released on
October 2021. R&D and manufacturing
are all done at Horizon Biwako Factory
as utilizing all of our processing facilities
for Horizon products.

IGAS2022 Horizon Booth
WorkflowMIS
Order～ つながる Factory Automation ～MES※

MACRM

ERP

※ Manufacturing Execution System
製造実行システム

WMS
Cloud Services
SCM

In this exhibition, iCE LiNK is connected with 12 iCE seriesmachines and 3 printers. As the iCE LiNK controls thesetup information on each machine and job scheduling,current status of connected machines and printers isvisualized on Dashboard screen which helps to improve
the productivity.

JOB CONTROL PRE-PRESS(仮称)

POST-PRESSPRINTER IN-LINE

PRESS

Press
Information
Cloud / Edge

ロール紙対応中綴じ製本システム
プリンターインライン無線綴じシステム

プリンターインラインダイカットシステム

プリンターインラインシートカットシステム

紙折機パレタイズシステム

AGV Nipper

iCE STITCHLINER MarkⅣ
スマートスタッカーインライン無線綴じシステム

極少・中ロット向け無線綴じシステム

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