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Transport, sort and palletize 20,000 tires (260 SKUs) per day.

Sector 1 – Transport tires out of production to the testing machines.
Sector 2 – Transport tires from the testing machines to the sorter.
Sector 3 – Sort and palletize tires.

To ensure continued production during unmanned shifts, a manufacturer of steel doors wished to automate the processing of the various sheet metal workpieces. The load, weighing just 36 kg, is relatively small. On the other hand, there is a wide range of workpiece dimensions to be taken into account.

The Gripper Unit had to be capable of handling the complete range of workpieces. An additional challenge is posed by the geometry of the sheets, which are perforated Read more ...

The company STROJMETAL KAMENICE, a.s. Konsorcium from the Czech Republic is a manufacturer of aluminium alloys for the automotive industry. The main target of this project was to rapidly increase the productivity of the heat processing technology of pressed parts for the automotive industry. The end target was to create an automated workplace with furnaces, that are operated by fully automatic manipulators.

The machine is intended for processing vitrified clay pipes that are installed by drivage operations for sewer pipes. Vitrified clay pipes ensure an economical, reliable and sustainable sewage disposal due to their outstanding features such as extreme longevity, absolute resistance against physical and chemical loads as well as enduring impermeability.
To ensure that the individual pipe ends can be connected reliably without leaks, a precise machining of the pipe ends Read more ...

Curing ovens are loaded and unloaded automatically with a 4-axial palletizing system. The system picks up workpiece carriers from a supply point and loads up to seven curing ovens with several levels with them. After the curing time has passed, the system unloads the ovens again and makes the workpiece carriers available for further processing.

In a production line, 3 machining centers (Alfing) need to be linked. The unmachined part in- and outfeed needs to be incorporated as well as an embossing station.

Loading and unloading of a tunnel furnace for winding mandrel, workpiece weight: 200 – 4000 kg, transporting the finished switch rod. Loading and unloading of a winding machine for high-voltage switch rods with winding mandrels.

Application of a 2-component adhesive on various geometries of rotor blade shells of a wind-power-plant rotor blade size E 82.2. There are 4 forms in a row (length of the plant 214 m). One portal can be fastened only on a wall-sided guideway. A second support needs to be provided on the floor side.

Adhesive application:
In the first step, stays need to be glued in in the longitudinal axis of the pressure-sided rotor blade shell half. After the stays in Read more ...

Loading and unloading of 3 grinding machines (sequential machining). Loading and unloading of alignment, cleaning and measuring station, basket conveyor
Workpiece weight up to 8 kg.

The application, which is based on the 6-axis gantry robot from Güdel, is a highly flexible machining system for pre-fabrication house walls and timber construction elements.
The architect or wood builder defines the design, the connection points as well as the cutouts for window, electrical equipment, etc. in the CAD system and sends the machining data directly to the 6-axis robot.

Italy based Mazzucconi SpA, manufactures Foundry Automation for the Automotive Industry. They were challenged with designing and manufacturing a high availability system to automate a heat treatment process line that had to operate through an unattended shift pattern. The payload is very high at 3500 Kg and the cycle time required was also tight at 60 seconds. The process required the basket of components to be placed into the Oven and then after the heating process was Read more ...

Having a new program and increased volumes, a major tier 1 automotive supplier in Australia is required to add a second press transfer system who's processes require both destacked blanks and material from a coil feeder.

Total Champagne production is 300 million bottles per year and the trend is for an increase year on year.
One large Champagne producer needed to improve his production flow to reduce production costs and to respond to customer demand. The Champagne must be handled with care and attention but with speed. The operation is carried out in a cellar with limited space and height and in humid conditions.

Vertical drilling and reaming of Outher Rear Spar A380

Having a new program and increased volumes, a major tier 1 automotive supplier in Australia is required to add a second press transfer system who's processes require both destacked blanks and material from a coil feeder.

Design a tool specifically for Necking-in and End Closing of Steel and Aluminum Tubing. Creating an automated foundation that can handle both the challenges of extreme environmental conditions and work reliably in many varied work sites and conditions around the world.

Turkingtons Europe, a major worldwide supplier of Bakery Automation, needed to provide an automated Tin Store to one of the UK’s major Bakeries. The Tin Store needed to fit into an existing Bakery that had floor space restrictions and height restrictions due to a low roof in the building. We had to achieve a high throughput and maximum Read more ...

Ultraseal International, manufacture Impregnation Process lines to ensure minimal scrap of cast products due to porosity problems. They needed to automate the handling of large baskets of metal components through one of its Impregnation Process lines, comprising various process tanks. The end user site was very limited in floor space and the roof height was low, therefore limiting the type of automation that could be used. The Impregnation process involved the use of Nitric Read more ...

KP Foods Plant at Stockton-on-Tees is a manufacturer of Potato Crisp snack foods. The end of line process involved a manual Palletising process of the boxes of Crisps. This needed a high number of personnel over 3 shifts operating 24/7.
KP wanted to significantly reduce the labour content and re-deploy labour on to higher value added processes, reduce the floor space needed to perform the Palletising process and improve reliability of throughput. The output of the Read more ...

The design of a powerful and multifunctional machine was our goal. Welding and cutting duties can be performed either with Autogenous or Plasma technique.
The shown example offers greatest flexibility with (2) Autogenous burners, (1) Plasma burner and a working area of 2000 x 6000 mm.