Production logistics for aluminium profiles

Intra logistics in the pressing plant

The company, apt Hiller GmbH, is a manufacturer of aluminium profiles, as are used in respect of windows and doors, football goalposts and trade fair stands.

For the manufacture of these profiles a 480° C hot press bar with up to 4,000 tons of pressure is pressed into a mould.The approximately 50 m long profiles are then subsequently stretched, sawn to lengths of 8 meters and placed correspondingly into the transport containers. Depending on the requirements the transport containers run through the further operations of manufacturing: hardening ovens, anodisation, subsequent processing, packing and dispatch.

These are combined flexibly through automatic conveyor technology, crane facilities and a shuttle vehicle.

3 storage spaces of different sizes serve as buffer zones in which the transport containers are stacked.

A particular requirement for the transport system is the coordination between the pressing plant and the anodising plant, which are at 100 m distance from each other.

Scope of Unitechnik contribution:

Control technology:

  • Simatic S7-400 Profibus-DP

Transport management system:

  • Product administration in the Storage spaces
  • (7 transport container types)
  • Handling of transport container stacks
  • Coordination of all transports
  • Integrated plant visualisation
  • Communication with ERP system

Control cabinet construction, assembly,
commissioning and training
Service contract

Overall responsibility:
Vollert GmbH+Co.KG

 

Completion: 2006

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Case Study - APT Hiller GmbH