A twenty-fold enhance in production was the objective of the Croatian automobile cosmetics company Alfa Car. To achieve this, the entire production cycle, housed in a new manufacturing plant, was automated. Festo supplied a complete answer for greater than 200 process valves – including challenge management.
A number of different merchandise including water, alcohol, glycerine, surfactants, oleic and acetic acids, sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are saved, transported, blended and bottled for the production of automotive cosmetic products. This requires complicated process automation solutions. เพชเชอร์เกจ has taken a big step into the longer term: whereas constructing a brand new production plant, the whole manufacturing cycle was fully automated, from the raw materials to the bottling line for the completed merchandise. One point of focus was the seamless automation of the method valves.
A number of completely different substances are stored, transported, blended and bottled within the manufacturing plant.
Customised complete answer
To tackle the problem, the company labored together with the system integrator Arp Lučko and Festo. It would be Festo’s position to project handle the automation of the process valves. To guarantee quick integration into the new system and most reliability in the future production process, customised complete solutions have been supplied that cover the whole vary, from the method valve models to the valve terminals. When choosing the required elements, particular attention had to be paid to the potentially explosive setting.
Reliability counts
The communication between numerous different automated ball valves and the new plant’s higher-level control system was additionally decisive for optimum course of automation. This requirement was met by a dependable solution with six valve terminals kind VTUG with PROFINET bus connection. More than 200 ball valves from different manufacturers may be fully automated on this way. Using a single source for the ball valve solution took the strain off each Alfa Car and Arp Lučko when it came to designing and putting in the new system. The intensive coordination of the various process valve suppliers, which Festo dealt with as part of its venture management brief, additionally made the venture simpler.
Automated process valves ensure reliable distribution of the substances in the numerous course of steps.
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