Miller Magazine Issue 107 / November 2018

64 MILLER / NOVEMBER 2018 INTERVIEW “Our newly inaugurated Industry 4.0 mill has the most advanced technologies, the highest food safety environment and the opportunity to meet customer ex- pectations with the ability of applying one percent mixture. Less than a dozen of blue-collar workers are employed in our mill where Kraft packages are done by automatized machines and robots; and delivery can be done from 6 points simul- taneously. That is to say, we do not require human force in our manufacturing environment. Only white-collar colleagues take part in product development, qu- ality check and food safety documents.” We brought Turkey a factory where robots work Interview: Mustafa YAĞMURLU Erhan ÖZMEN Chairman of the board of Southeast Turkey Flour Industrialists’ Association (GUSAD) CEO of Ozmen Un Ozmen Un has utilized the Industry 4.0 technology within a mill for the first time in Turkey and brought one of the most modern plants of Europe to Gaziantep. Here, customized flour products are being manufactured by using the robotic technology for all phases of manufac- turing. The company became highly competitive in terms of quality products thanks to this investment and it star- ted to attract many prominent European bakers. Erhan Ozmen, the CEO of Ozmen Un which is a family company of 40 years, is the guest of the Miller Magazine for this issue. Erhan Ozmen, who had been the chairman of Turkish Flour Industrialists’ Federation (TUSAF) for many years, has some advices to overcome wheat and flour scarcity which stems from the artificial appreciation of foreign currencies against Turkish lira. Ozmen praised Turkish flour industry for being highly specialized in pro-