Packaging machinery specialist GREIF-VELOX has announced a strategic partnership with industrial connectivity expert ei³, creating a foundation for secure machine data collection, real-time monitoring, and continuous optimisation. By integrating ei³’s IIoT platform directly into GREIF-VELOX filling and bagging systems, the company is transforming its equipment into digitally enhanced packaging solutions capable of delivering actionable insights across the entire production process.

Central to this new digital architecture is VeloXpert, GREIF-VELOX’s unified performance and service program. Combining digital tools with technical support, VeloXpert provides remote diagnostics via VPN, condition monitoring, efficiency analyses, and comprehensive dashboards designed to improve equipment uptime and process transparency. These services complement traditional offerings such as commissioning, operator training, maintenance, and spare parts management. GREIF-VELOX also extends flexibility through its Packaging-as-a-Service (PaaS) model, which incorporates financing options and tailored supply concepts for consumables and wear parts.

A key operational tool within this ecosystem is VeloInside – a system-specific performance dashboard that visualises real-time machine data. Built on a customised version of the established OEE framework, GVEE (Greif-Velox Equipment Effectiveness) combines availability, performance, and quality metrics to highlight bottlenecks, detect emerging deviations, and drive improvements in line productivity and process reliability.

The partnership builds on GREIF-VELOX’s expertise in ultra-precise powder bagging and liquid filling. Its BVP and BVPV packers deliver high accuracy and flexibility, while VeloVac systems achieve dust-free vacuum bagging with compaction levels of up to 400%, supporting demanding applications such as carbon black, silica, pigments, and technical fibres. In liquid filling, the fully automatic A-DOS-P1 system handles up to 40 drums or 15 IBCs per hour, ensuring high-volume throughput with safety and precision.

For ei³, security and interoperability remain key strengths. Its platform supports data integration across new and legacy equipment, currently safeguarding more than 190,000 industrial assets without recorded security breaches.

Spencer Cramer (CEO ei³) and Sebastian Pohl (CEO Greif-Velox)