Retrofit of an automatic plate cutting plant
How VELOX achieved diagnostic capabilities and increased machine availability
About VELOX Bau-Systeme
For over six decades, the Carinthian family-owned company VELOX has been producing cement-bonded wood particleboard. The unique production technology and decades of know-how make VELOX construction and insulation boards unique and distinctive.
VELOX produces contemporary and high-quality building products and systems by combining technical quality with innovative technology and customer needs.
Services:
Selmo Services
Industry:
Construction products and systems
Location:
Maria Rojach, AUT
Project scope
- 236 PLC in- and 172 outputs
- 12 servo axles
- 16 actuators
- 5 asynchronous motors
- 20 sequences
- 254 steps
- 330 zones
- User interface
- ERP interface
Project timeline
- Process of the existing plant recorded by video and mapped in Selmo Studio
- Actuators and sensors taken from E-Plan and entered as a system in Selmo Studio
- The new PLC code imported into Twin Cat 3
- Commissioning of the process logic software core in 5 days
- Plant produces after only a few days of commissioning
Initial situation & challenges
The machine separates stacks of slabs with variable slab thicknesses per type and order. The slabs are composite panels made of wood chips and concrete. Depending on the type, the separated slabs are cut into variable strip widths and notched or drilled if required. The finished slabs are transported to stacking towers and stacked again to form strip stacks. Finished strip stacks are transported to strapping via chain conveyors and removed by a stacker.
Increase in machine availability
Diagnostic capabilities of the plant achieved
Simplification of the operation of the plant
The entire Velox story as PDF
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