A new assembling equipment to increase the production
Tuesday April 27th, 2010
By next September a new assembling line by a french manufacturer will be fully mounted and run.
It is a line composed of 3 fully autimatical machines respectively duputed to the nailing of tops, bottoms and to the final assemblage of the whole pallet.
The line is equipped with robots for the conveyance of components into masks, as well as with smaller devices for the finishing operations for each sort of pallets, and with long conveyors stop-areas for the temporary rest of the parts of pallets waiting for the next phases.
It is fully automatical and has a capacity of n° 600 pallets per hour.
The greatest innovative aspect of this line is the system to change the lots that is executed fully automatically basing on PC processed data, where no human intervention is necessary. Lots changes will then take max. 4 – 5 minutes, enabling to produce also very short lots pallets without the incidence of those costs laying also on non-productive time. Thus will garantee our Clients to count on the most competitive sale-prices and on a higher flexibility that it was before.
Last but not least, it will be possible to restrain the average storing of finished pallets in stock.
To install it properly it was necessary to enlarge the covered productive area of 1.500 sqm more and to make the technical equipments adequate.
The whole expence was of 2 millions euros approxmately