Digital Intelligence in Banknote Printing

In this issue, we describe the industry’s newest banknote production facility – IMBISA in Spain. Another example of a new printworks that has also built innovation in from the start is Guangzhou Banknote Printing Co Ltd (GBPC), the seventh and newest of China Banknote Printing and Minting’s banknote factories.

In this article, we focus on one particular aspect of the new printworks – namely intelligence derived from digitization and the remarkable efficiencies that have resulted.

Visiting GBPC - located as per its name in Guangzhou, China’s fifth most populous city - has been likened to stepping into a modern garden, with the integration of a landscaped layout and neatly arranged modern building conveying greenness, intelligence, and hospitality.

The so-called ‘intelligent’ factory is nestled within the lush vegetation. According to GBPD, as the latest printing enterprise in China, the concept of intelligence has been planted into the entire construction process of the factory, with BIM (Building information Modelling) as the digital foundation and the industrial internet platform for the integration management of all processes.