How the love for beautiful cars led to an improved and faster production of a car engine part. Here’s the story:
A few years ago, a founder and engineer of a small company for special machine manufacturing scribbled a rough plan on a piece of paper over a beer in the provinces.
It was his enthusiasm for beautiful cars that originally got the conversation going. After a few beers, he described an idea for an integrated press for an important engine part.
He envisioned an automated, complex casting system that could not only press and shape the engine part perfectly, but also feed the aluminium blanks into the press one after the other, place them and check their precision. Depending on the result of the test, the part is then either corrected (up to 50 tons of pressing pressure) and forwarded to production or, if necessary, to the recycling channel.
The vision for the system in a few words:
- fully automated
- drastically increase the output per day
- prevent production interruptions because of faulty parts
- quickly send parts that do not meet the requirements to recycling
A few weeks later, after considering all aspects of the factory environment and the various requirements in terms of feeding options, placement of blanks, press force and reset mechanisms, we ordered the necessary parts to build the prototypes and the development of the control software began.
A few months after the first sketch in the provincial bar, we bolted the first version of the straightening press to the floor and began testing the software and the integrated process. The system met the requirements very quickly.
And it all started with a beer and a little scribble on a piece of paper in the provinces (St. Gallen).
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Andreas Wirz, CREALET CEO
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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