Automation line for two TRUMPF laser cutting machines
Client
Wemax Polska is a manufacturer of steel structures and a producer of a wide range of metal products, which has been operating for over 30 years. The company provides professional sheet metal and profile processing services. Wemax Polska offers professional services in laser cutting, plasma cutting, welding, bending, punching, machining, painting, powder coating, deburring, shot-blasting and assembling of various steel grades including aluminium, copper and brass. Due to the very wide range of customers including the manufacture of a variety of products, the company is constantly investing in the development of its machinery and expanding its technologies.
Challenges
- Increasing the efficiency of the cutting process for sheets of various formats and assortments
- Increasing the capacity to handle high-mix low-volume orders
- Reduce the number of operators involved in the laser cutting machine handling process
- Minimising the role of forklift trucks in the material handling process
- Optimisation of the area used for the laser cutting process
Provided solution
A line for automated sheet metal cutting using two Trumpf laser cutting machines – including one with a dimension of 3×1.5 m and the other 4×2 m.
The line consists of a TransferTower automated storage system with a capacity of more than 500 tonnes of sheet metal, a transport system for single metal sheets to each cutting machine, a transport system for parts cut from each cutting machine and a Smart WMS IT system for efficient and effective planning and management of the order queue. All system components are mechanically, signal and IT integrated. IT integration includes the ERP connection (Symphonia), the Trutops Boost CAD/CAM system, the laser cutting machine interface and the Smart WMS system.
Results
- Multiplying the capacity of the cutting process (max. loading of 40 sheets/h)
- Maximum flexibility in the execution of short and long series
- Reduction in access time to 3 minutes for each range of sheets and the possibility of carrying out laser table loading every 1.5 minutes (40 cycles per hour)
- Possibility to work at night and at weekends, without the operator being present permanently
Technical data
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| System height | 6 000 [mm] |
| Shelf lenght/width | 4 130/2 100 [mm] |
| Shelf capacity | 5 000 [kg] |
| Number of shelves | 101 |
| Total capacity | 505 000 [kg] |
| System lenght/width | 33 500/17 100 [mm] |
