Precast Concrete Plant for Solid and Double Walls
Flagship Factory for the Precast Concrete Industry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Being the official date for start of production of Alabniah Precast Concrete Buildings Factory, the 1st of January 2010 is a date not only marking a new decade but is also a date, when the Saudi Arabian precast concrete industry sees starting off the most advanced and largest factory of its kind in the Kingdom. The factory located in the Second Industrial Area of Dammam is the first of its kind in Saudi Arabia offering the combined advantages of state of the art production technology, high capacity, and a wide product range to supply the market with complete building systems and precast components.
The plant ist producing up to 3,500 sqm wall and floor elements per day. What is remarkable about it is that the plant produces individual elements. The buildings are designed with the help of a CAD-system. The CAD-data will be transmitted to the master computer of the production line. On the other hand, the master computer controls the machines the way that the needed elements are produced in exactly correct dimensions and that they are provided in the order as they are needed on site.
Scope of Unitechnik contribution:
Master Computer UniCAM
- Order management
- Pallet loading
- Production control
- Plant visualization
- Work schedules
- Information management
Control engineering:
- 3 Controls for circulation
- shuttering robot
- concrete spreader
- stacker crane
- based on Simatic S7
Distributed design with Profibus
Complex safety concept
Switchgear construction, installation
Commissioning and training
Service contract
Project team:
- Design, Project management: Prilhofer Consulting Pallet circuit,
- stacker crane
- Turning device: Vollert Machines, Shutters
- Pallets: Weckenmann
- CAD: Tekla and many others
Completion: 2009
Key data of the facility
23,000 sqm ground floor
Pallet circulation plant for the production of solid walls, sandwich elements, element slabs and double walls
Max. element size: 12m x 4.20m
Production capacity: 110 Pallets, equates to 3,500 sqm per day
Plant equipment:
- Pallet circulation
- Shuttering rowbot
- Reinforcing manufacture
- Concrete spreader
- Concrete compaction
- Curing chamber, stacker crane
- Turning device
- Unloading stations