PUBLICATION OF HK 03/2017: Today, part variation is one of the dominant topics in the furniture industry. The customer’s requirement to make distinctions and deliver faster are representing a challenge for the manufacturer’s internal logistics. This is because product components cannot be routinely managed between the individual processing steps due to their diversity. Sorting systems like the ones from SYSTRAPLAN are the key for optimum production processes.

Visit the LIGNA-fair and inform yourself about exciting trends and latest developments. SYSTRAPLAN presents itself with a new booth in hall 12, booth D84. Here you will find responses to pressing questions of material handling engineering and warehouse technology.

The issue of tread handling has always been a delicate matter for the tread production. Apart from the physical stress, the focus is also on the quality of the manual handling. SYSTRAPLAN offers a technical advanced solution for the automated tread booking of leaf trucks at the end of the extrusion lines for many years. Unloading of leaf trucks at tire building machines are yet often manually carried out by staff members. SYSTRAPLAN now has presented a gantry for an automated discharging of treads from the leaf trucks.

SYSTRAPLAN has developed years ago area storage systems which are able to handle complete stacks with a surface portal. These systems have been adapted for the tire industry to buffer cassette trollies in the second level above the production. The full trollies can be buffered directly above the extrusion line. They will be retrieved "just in time" at the right spot for the next production step. This saves valuable floor space in production and internal manual transport between the steps.