When you need to improve a process, train people, or decide when to maintain a machine, experience helps. But experience alone is not enough.

When it is combined with clear, structured data, decision-making becomes faster, more objective, and repeatable over time.
This is the reason behind WM’s investment in WMEmpower.

Not to collect more data, but to make existing data usable by the right people, at the right moment, to support better decisions.

Because the questions on the shop floor are always the same:

• How can die-cut wear be managed before it impacts quality and causes downtime?
• How can operator efficiency be improved with clarity, rather than trial and error?
• How can maintenance actions and spare part decisions be based on facts instead of assumptions?

Unexpected downtime rarely comes from a single failure. It usually starts earlier.

A heater that slowly drifts. A chain that wears faster than expected. An operator changing a parameter without knowing its real impact.
At the upcoming European Thermoforming Conference (Strasbourg, March 3–5), WM is shifting the conversation from hardware to intelligence.

On March 5, Luca Oliverio will speak in the General Session with the presentation:

“Empower: Turning Thermoforming Data into Intelligence. AI, Real-Time Insight, and the Future of Performance”

The talk will focus on WMEmpower, WM’s ecosystem designed to turn raw machine data into actionable decisions.

First previewed at K 2025, WMEmpower was created to address one of the biggest inefficiencies in production today: valuable data already exists-but it is not being used.

WMEmpower integrates four core modules:

• FlowView – A familiar, reliable backend with a redesigned interface to dramatically reduce operator onboarding time and setup complexity.
• WMind – Real-time dashboards and AI agents that connect machine builder expertise with daily production decisions.
• Form.AI – A 24/7 intelligent, multilingual virtual assistant supporting operators, maintenance and service teams.
• WM Vision – In-line, real-time 100% quality control.

If you are attending the conference, come challenge us with your real production constraints.
Don’t miss the Keynote / March 5 – 2:05 PM
We’ll talk about where performance is really being lost today, and how structured data, AI and experience together can bring it back.

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