Special machinery

Automation for milling centres

In the manufacturing industry, factors such as process stability, consistent quality, high technical availability and high autonomy are becoming increasingly important for competitiveness. HEITEC is setting new standards for Lindner Recyclingtech GmbH's production with a customised automation cell developed in-house. HEITEC's expertise and the cooperative collaboration with our customer lead to intelligent automation with innovation and creativity and also ensure competitive advantages in the future.

Brief technical description

High overall system availability of 97%
Up to 72 hours unmanned operation of the entire system
Maximum load capacity of 360kg
Precise depalletising technology with intermediate layer handling for extremely simple blank feeding
Flexible gripper systems for maximum product variance with minimum set-up effort
Simple integration of new workpieces

Realisation

Our customer uses this system to process forged parts and flame-cut parts fully automatically into components for its own systems and is therefore able to maintain the profitability of its high vertical range of manufacture. The development focus was primarily on process and quality stability, user-friendly operation and the simplest possible integration options for new future workpieces.

In the first stage, the automation system was delivered with two milling centres, but all components were already designed for an expansion to three milling centres. The automation cell and milling centres were connected, tested and commissioned together at the HEITEC site in order to guarantee an optimum result for the customer, a short commissioning phase and a smooth process on site.

Following the successful implementation of the new production processes and operation of the entire system, the automation cell has now been expanded to include the third milling machine.

Fanuc robot system M-900iB / 360 on floor travelling axis
Set-up station for inserting new clamping devices or parts trays
Operating station with individual visualisation
Four storage locations each for raw part and finished part pallets (Euro pallet 800x1200)
Depalletising system
Gripper station / gripper changing system
Pallet racks for components, fixture pallets and parts trays
Fixture station (automatic fixture set-up)
SPC / NIO storage option

Customer benefits

A wide variety of workpiece types in one cell
Maximum flexibility for future products
Simple operability
High autonomy even with small batch sizes

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