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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. Read more ...

Vertical drilling and reaming of Outher Rear Spar A380 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. Read more ...

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. Read more ...

 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 storage space. The Tin Store needed to handle 3 different variants of Tins and operate 24/7 for 6.5 days per week. The required throughput was a tin every 2.5 seconds in or out of the store. 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 acid in some tanks and special engineering was required on the system to ensure high availability of the system was achieved working in this environment. At the same time, Ultraseal wanted GUDEL to use as much of its proven standard modular equipment as possible. The total weight of the basket and components is 550KG. To get the throughput required, the system needed to operate at 1 metre/second velocity. 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 system needed to be 1 box every 4 seconds. 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. Read more ...

To destack and sort dirty empty containers and convey them to the container washing machine. After cleaning, the empty containers are transported to a type- and size-specific buffer. The empty containers are conveyed to the production system as needed. Read more ...

To place the plastic containers filled with packaged portions of cheese into an automated container storage facility. From this container storage facility the product is manually commissioned by ergonomic means and conveyed to the shipping department. Read more ...

To design a cleaning system for containers and pallets, whose washing capacity can be increased to 4 times its previous volume. Read more ...

To destack and sort dirty empty containers and transport them to the container washing machine. After cleaning, the empty containers are transported to type- and size-specific buffers. The empty containers are transported to the production lines as needed. The new system had to replace the old system while it was still in operation. Read more ...

To set up a new state-of-the art production plant after the old one was destroyed by fire. After the sales items are packed in cardboard boxes, they must be conveyed, palleted and stored. Read more ...

Loading of gear cutting machines with crown wheels and pinions.
The whole cell consists of four machining centers, two for the crown wheels and two for the pinions. The maximum part weights are 35kg for the crown wheels and 8kg for the pinions respectively. One parts change cycle which consists of unloading a part and loading a new one has to be done within 35s. Read more ...

In high-voltage applications welded aluminium pipes are used for gas insulated switchgear. In pressure resistant piping systems high currents are being switched under SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride) inert gas.
To prevent electric breakdown, the junctions of the gas-filled piping have to be smooth. Such a pipe consists of a cylindrical centre section with cast aluminium flanges welded on on both sides. To meet the requirements, the weldseams between centre section and flanges have to be flattened.
The workpieces range from 200 to 500mm in diameter and measure up to 7000mm in length. Read more ...

A special material supplier to the Aerospace Industry had to transfer heavy duty frames loaded with aluminium sheets having a total weight of 1,000kgs between four process tanks. The first tank was filled with a liquid salt solution heated to 650°C, the second tank was a quench tank to bring the temperature of the material down quickly. The third tank is a rinse tank and the fourth tank was a drier. The overall process cycle time was quite long at 10 minutes, but it was important to transfer the frame from the salt solution into the quench tank in less than 9.6 seconds,meaning that the system needed to move at 2 metres per second.There were also height issues to overcome. Read more ...

British Nuclear Group are involved in the current de-commissioning programme throughout Britain, for the early Magnox Nuclear Power Stations.
The challenges faced by BNG are many and varied and they need to deploy automated systems into areas where human activity for extended periods would not be desired.
A particular application of emptying old storage areas of waste material required some form of overhead handling system that could deploy a standard Manipulator to collect the waste from the large storage tanks. Read more ...

The robot arm loads the press with sometimes hot rawlings.
After the pressing procedure, the formed parts are removed from the press and palletized. Read more ...

To automatically rack stamped body panels of both Class “A” and Class “B” surfaces. The panels are produced at speeds up to 14 SPM and must be loaded into shipping racks for movement to assembly plants. This presented ergonomic and production challenges with manual operation as the size and weight of the parts makes it difficult for operators handling and racking them. Some of the parts get rotated during the racking process. To keep within production requirements, there needed to be 8 separate load/unload stations so while some are being loaded, others can be unloaded with a fork truck. Read more ...

Multi-layer plastic sheets are extruded and must be stacked on pallets for movement to other areas of the plant. This can present ergonomic challenges with a manual operation as some of the sheets get flipped over during the stacking process. Since this is a continuous extrusion process, there needs to be 2 separate load/unload stations, so while one is being loaded, the other can be unloaded with a fork truck. This allows production to be maintained during the unload process. Read more ...