A manufacturer of office supplies needed a conveyor line for carton blanks with an integrated buffer function. The cardboard stacks come out of a cutting system in various formats and at a rate of 6 stacks per minute. The downstream stack magazine can process 4 stacks per minute, which means that a…
A photo book manufacturer faced the challenge of expanding the number of machines it used to bind book blocks from four to eight. For the modernisation, the manufacturer not only needed additional conveyor technology, they also needed to realise a new comprehensive controller for old and new…
An automotive supplier requires a compact conveyor solution for buffering and cyclical feeding and removal of body parts to a robot cell.
A compact demonstrator with a robot, conveyor technology and a camera system at UAS Cologne provides an interactive experience of complex production processes. Thanks to the support of the mk Technology Group, key concepts such as OEE can be taught.
A postal service provider wanted to allow its drivers to deliver to the logistics centre at any time without waiting. The idea: An automated conveyor line moves the delivered crates from the outside area through a wall opening into the logistics centre.
At a manufacturer of carton packaging, the carton blanks fed out from a production machine were stacked on pallets manually. The aim was to automate this process, with a robot taking over the palletising work in the future.
A munitions manufacturer needed to optimise its process for filling an annealing furnace with cartridge cases. Once deep-drawn, the cases had previously been laboriously poured into the 3 m high separating unit for the furnace by hand. A conveyor system was now required that could automatically and…
An automotive supplier manufactures steel rails for the adjustment of vehicle seats. The degree of automation in the production processes is high. Automatic conveyor systems that transport the rails from one processing step to the next – from the punching to welding, for instance – are therefore…
A medical products manufacturer requires a conveyor system as supply and discharge for a packaging machine for roll plasters.
A producer of food supplements requires a conveying line between its filling and packing plants. Small PET vials of different sizes are to be gathered into containers and then guided to the packing plant or alternatively to a manual workstation.