The integration of sawing machines with an automated material handling system has brought significant production and efficiency benefits for one Bavarian-based precision engineering firm.
Ever-shorter delivery times and fluctuating batch sizes prompted multi-metal distributor Debrunner Acifer in Birsfelden, Switzerland, to put its logistics processes to the test.
In today’s Industry 4.0 era, digitalisation and networking are rapidly gaining ground to make manufacturing more efficient, flexible and cost-efficient.
Based in Bremen, Amco Metall Service stocks 7,000 tonnes of aluminium, copper, brass and bronze in its 55,000m² facility and delivers 25,000 tonnes annually to customers mainly in the plant building, metal processing, construction, transportation and shipbuilding sectors. The German family firm has 270 employees and an annual turnover of around €100 million.
Since 1993, storage and sawing technology from Kasto has provided dependable service to hydraulic equipment manufacturer Liebherr-Components Kirchdorf GmbH.
Despite political wrangling over the past few years and subsequent business uncertainty, the UK remains a strong and successful market for sawing and storage specialist Kasto, according to Ernst Wagner, who runs the German manufacturer's subsidiary in Milton Keynes. PES reports.
To save time, weight and costs when producing metal aircraft components, Airbus Helicopters in Donauwörth, Bavaria, part of the Airbus Group employing 7,000 staff, has recently turned to additive manufacturing.
When Carlisle-based steel stockholder Thomas Graham & Sons needed a new saw to cut bundles of boron alloyed steel it found the KASTOwin 4.6 bandsaw was the machine with the performance levels it required.
Specialist stockholder serving the oil and gas industry, Howat Group, perhaps better known by its trading names AMS, ESS and Ancon, has installed a 14th Kasto bandsaw – a KASTOwin pro AC 5.6 – at its new centre in Barnsley, which opened at the end of 2018.