Production logistics for aluminum profiles
Intralogistics in the extrusion plant
The company apt Hiller GmbH is a manufacturer of aluminum profiles, as known from windows and doors, soccer goals and exhibition stands.
To produce these profiles, a 480°C hot extrusion billet is pressed through a die with up to 4000 tons of pressure. The profiles, which are around 50 meters long, are then stretched, sawn to a length of 8 meters and placed in transport baskets in layers. Depending on the order, the baskets pass through the other production steps: Hardening ovens, anodizing, post-processing, packaging and dispatch.
These are flexibly interlinked by means of automatic conveyor technology, crane systems and a shuttle vehicle.
The baskets are stacked in 3 storage areas of different sizes as buffer storage.
A special requirement for the transport control system is the coordination of material movements between the extrusion plant and the anodizing plant, which are 100 m apart.
Scope of services Unitechnik:
Control technology:
- Simatic S7-400 Profibus-DP
Transport control system:
- Inventory management in the
- area warehouses (7 basket types)
- Handling of basket stacks
- Coordination of all transports
- Integrated system visualization
- Communication with ERP system
Switchgear construction, assembly
Commissioning and training
Service contract
