INDUSTRY FOCUS AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLY CHAIN
Lifting solutions feature in flagship Jaguar Land Rover engine plant
Leading lifting equipment specialists, Konecranes, has supplied and installed a comprehensive range of hoist and crane lifting system solutions within Jaguar Land Rover’s new flagship Engine Manufacturing Centre (EMC) located on the i54 business park in Wolverhampton
JLR’s new EMC houses around 150 Konecranes hoist and crane systems
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tanding as a world-class manufacturing facility and the first of
its kind to be commissioned by Jaguar Land Rover within a generation, Konecranes has also assumed responsibility for onsite planned service and maintenance programmes relating to the equipment portfolio involved. This process will be supported by some 40 Konecranes service technicians, all of whom are located within only a 20-mile radius of the EMC. Currently installed within the EMC’s
machine component and engine assembly halls – home to Jaguar Land Rover’s latest generation Ingenium, 2- litre diesel engine – are some 150 Konecranes hoist and crane systems.
Standing as a versatile production line lifting solution are 70 free standing XMP pillar jib cranes, each equipped with Konecranes’ versatile CLX electric chain hoist that provides a maximum lifting capacity of 250kg. Also figuring prominently across the
EMC site are some 80 workstation solutions that centre on Konecranes' new and modular XA lightweight aluminium crane system. Spanning up to eight metres in length, 50 of the stations have been specified with additional CLX chain hoists – also rated to 250kg – whilst the remaining 30 feature Konecranes’ ergonomic, ATB pneumatic air balancers. Interfaced with a variety of grippers to provide varying levels of lifting
sophistication, using air pressure as the ATB’s power source makes the item being lifted appear almost weightless. Not surprisingly, the ATBs are being used to lift heavier components, such as engine blocks, cylinder heads and crankshafts with greater speed and efficiency within the EMC machine hall. Commenting on behalf of Konecranes,
Pat Campbell, country cirector – UK and West Europe, says: “We are obviously delighted that Konecranes’ lifting equipment solutions have been installed within the Jaguar Land Rover EMC here in the UK.
“Not only does the facility stand as an
important part of the company’s strategic growth plans, it is set to be recognised as a global benchmark for manufacturing excellence.”
Konecranes T: 0808 292 9256
www.konecranes.co.uk
CONTROL SYSTEM SPEEDS UP CAR PARTS DELIVERY
Following a joint planning phase that ran for more than a year, Inter Cars SA based in Poland has commissioned Beumer to fit out its new main distribution centre just outside of Warsaw with a complete conveying, order- picking and sorting system. Beumer will also supply a new warehouse control system and will serve as systems integrator for the project. Inter Cars, which is an online supplier, is establishing a new intralogistics system in order to meet the growing needs of its customers and to deliver spare parts for cars
even faster than before. The system will control all the functions, from goods reception to quality assurance, picking of goods, consignment and shipping. These areas will be connected by a conveyor system that is more than five kilometers long. One significant piece of equipment in the system will be the Beumer BS7 Belt Tray Sorter with 361 end points designed for gentle handling of spare parts for cars.
After being consolidated for customers, the orders will be distributed to
51 destinations by a sliding shoe sorter in the outgoing goods area. Beumer will also supply a PLC-based machine control unit and a material flow computer for the whole distribution centre. The system will receive orders from the warehouse management
system, which the customer ordered separately. “Order picking, packaging and shipping can thus be coordinated, and the user can optimise the throughput, cutting costs,” explains Martin Mossinkoff, globally responsible director of Logistics Systems in the Beumer Group. “Inter Cars will get the entire system from one source. In this way it will avoid interfaces and will have us as a contact for everything.” Employees from the Polish subsidiary of the Beumer Group will help set
up the system and put it into operation. Over the next five years they will be responsible for maintenance and servicing as part of the Residential Service agreement. The distribution centre is scheduled for completion in June 2016.
Beumer Group
www.beumergroup.com
14 OCTOBER 2015 | AUTOMATION
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