A twenty-fold enhance in manufacturing was the goal of the Croatian automotive cosmetics firm Alfa Car. To obtain this, the whole production cycle, housed in a new production plant, was automated. Festo equipped a complete resolution for more than 200 process valves – together with venture management.
A variety of different products including water, alcohol, glycerine, surfactants, oleic and acetic acids, sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are saved, transported, blended and bottled for the manufacturing of car cosmetic merchandise. This requires advanced process automation options. The Croatian car cosmetics firm Alfa Car has taken a big step into the longer term: while building a brand new manufacturing plant, the whole manufacturing cycle was fully automated, from the uncooked materials to the bottling line for the completed products. One point of focus was the seamless automation of the method valves.
A variety of different substances are stored, transported, blended and bottled within the production plant.
Customised full answer
To address the problem, the corporate worked along with the system integrator Arp Lučko and Festo. It would be Festo’s function to project manage the automation of the method valves. To guarantee fast integration into the model new system and maximum reliability sooner or later manufacturing course of, customised full solutions had been provided that cowl the entire vary, from the process valve items to the valve terminals. When deciding on the necessary elements, explicit consideration had to be paid to the possibly explosive setting.
Reliability counts
The communication between numerous totally different automated ball valves and the new plant’s higher-level management system was also decisive for optimum course of automation. This requirement was met by a dependable answer with six valve terminals type VTUG with PROFINET bus connection. More than 200 ball valves from totally different producers may be absolutely automated in this method. Using a single source for the ball valve solution took the stress off each Alfa Car and Arp Lučko when it got here to designing and installing the new system. Interesting of the assorted course of valve suppliers, which Festo handled as a half of its project management transient, additionally made the challenge simpler.
Automated course of valves guarantee reliable distribution of the substances in the numerous course of steps.
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