Gerhard Schubert GmbH has designed and, in 2025, significantly expanded its proprietary CARE monitoring solution – short for ‘Connection for Analytics, Reporting and Efficiency’. The upgraded platform enables the standard-compliant calculation of key OEE figures for packaging machines, leaner processes thanks to decentralised data management as well as customised presentation of content. Since 2025, new Schubert machines are equipped with an interface to the new CARE system as a standard feature – and the company is gradually adapting its existing machines. Since 2022, CARE has been an integral part of the packaging machine manufacturer’s digital service portfolio. The online machine platform offers users full transparency regarding their lines’ performance. CARE obtains information on production speed, uptime, rejects and throughput, for example, via interfaces to the machines, including quality control scanners. The CARE control system also provides key performance data – a key Schubert feature that significantly enhances data granularity. The system summarises this data concisely in a dashboard. Customers can view all the values via a web portal – and will receive even more precise insights in the future. “Transparency, user-friendliness and lean processes are at the forefront of digital solutions – and with them, ongoing adjustments,” explains Sonja Burkert, Lifecycle Product Manager at Schubert. “We have continuously evolved CARE in close collaboration with users so that customers can access the transparency they need regarding their OEE – in a way that is even more standardised, faster and more customised.”