Top-quality data is essential to achieve peak performance. In line with this approach, Gerhard Schubert GmbH designed and, in 2025, significantly expanded its proprietary CARE monitoring solution (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.
Said Sonja Burkert, Lifecycle Product Manager: “Transparency, user-friendliness and lean processes are at the forefront of digital solutions – and with them, ongoing adjustments. 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.”
Unlike in the past, the company no longer processes the machine data in its own IT environment. Instead, the machines themselves take on this task. “Key performance and production data is now available to operators within their own infrastructure and therefore more quickly,” explains Burkert. The information displayed on the web portal corresponds to the views on the control screens of the machines themselves – making it even easier to assign the data.
The enhanced CARE further offers an offline solution. In the future, in addition to the web portal, users will have access to the dashboard on their own infrastructure, for example on the intranet or on dedicated computers. To this end, Schubert uses a licence model in which on-site visualisation continues to be carried out in line with Schubert standards.
Schubert prioritises user-friendliness when it comes to evaluation. The upgraded CARE software displays key values as required by the specific calculation framework. The platform offers the flexibility needed for day-to-day production, whether for individual machines or entire lines at different sites, on a daily or weekly basis.
Concluded Andreas Kepler, Lifecycle Product Manager: “Different users access CARE and prioritise different factors. For example, a production manager focuses on output, whereas a technician is primarily interested in breakdowns and downtime. Thanks to its multifaceted evaluation options, CARE is now even better equipped to meet this wide range of requirements.” For more visit schubert.group
