A hit Conversion of a Automobile Meeting With Electrical Monorail Device

A German automotive producer approached VESCON Automation with the need to convert & enlarge an present automotive meeting line with an electrical monorail formulation. The demanding situations that arose all over the process the venture and the way they had been conquer are reported via the departments concerned. The result was once a formulation with sensible manufacturing efficiency.

1. heavy-duty EMS with upstream conveyor belt

2. meeting crosshead ultimate meeting

3. crosshead go back delivery

After the so-called marriage, the place frame and chassis are joined in combination, a conveyor belt takes over the frame. The move individuals to which the car is hooked up are now not wanted. They’re due to this fact dismantled and transported again. At the conveyor belt, the car is then ready for attachment to the heavy-duty EMS. The car then hangs within the EMS for the general meeting of additional portions (are fixed from under).

Every EMS chassis can lift a load of two.6 tonnes when transformed. There are a complete of 95 hangers and every trolley has its personal keep an eye on formulation. The massive merit: every trolley can also be maintained for my part. Because of this person trolleys can also be taken out of the educate in order that the EHB can paintings with out interruption at any time.

The EMS is without doubt one of the established in-plant and floor-free delivery methods. Specifically in ultimate car meeting, EMSs are most popular for the reason that staff have barrier-free get admission to to the decrease house of the cars.

What demanding situations had been encountered and the way had been they handled?

This was once a extremely difficult venture, each technically and relating to closing dates. It would best be finished inside of a slender period of time for the reason that manufacturing may just best be close down for a undeniable time period for value causes. As well as, restricted house made venture execution tough. Every other problem: the venture was once applied all over the peak of the Corona pandemic and similar Corona necessities influenced the implementation.

Our Digital Commissioning, {Hardware} Design and PLC Programming with Commissioning departments labored carefully in combination to effectively put into effect the venture.

To shorten the on-site commissioning time, the prevailing plant was once transformed right into a digital fashion. Particularly, the {hardware} and all of the PLC programming had been imported and therefore simulated. This supposed that it was once no longer essential to attend till on website to determine:

• The place the plant does no longer run correctly
• The place bottlenecks and issues happen in later operation
• The place new programming and design is needed

From a instrument perspective, this was once almost certainly the most important venture ever for VESCON Automation. There have been the next demanding situations in programming:

• Just one worker may just successfully paintings on every PLC at a time, which made it tough to distribute duties in addition to growth over the years.
• Changing an present plant at all times way familiarising oneself with present instrument programming, which was once firstly constructed via any other producer.

On website, all portions had been first commissioned in any other corridor, connectors pre-installed and all cables connected. Simplest then was once the whole thing assembled in the true manufacturing corridor. Every other necessary level, in order that the conversion may just happen within the in the past outlined time window and manufacturing within the present EMS didn’t come to a standstill for too lengthy.

“With out the good crew that labored at the venture on this constellation and with out the untiring non-public dedication of every person, it should not have been imaginable to understand this venture! However that is how we controlled to have the plant operating so stably (heavy-duty EMS and upstream conveyor belt) in simply the primary 2 days after the growth that each one manufacturing goals had been exceeded. I’ve by no means skilled that up up to now.”

Christian, Undertaking Supervisor

The buyer now has a plant for ultimate automotive meeting this is now are compatible and operating robustly for the following few years and the crew has any other effectively finished venture whose implementation has welded them in combination.