Industry solutions

Processing industry

VETTER cranes efficiently and reliably support any production area. They are used for feeding of CNC machines, as conventional shop crane for individual workplaces, for loading and unloading of conveyor belts, or as PROFI™ gantry cranes to link several workplaces. Thanks to the modular design, our customers do not only obtain standard but even tailored solutions.

Perfect production processes due to reduced waiting times, increased ergonomics, and more efficient processes – our customers always benefit from VETTER cranes.

References

Kaup

Each workplace has its own slewing crane

Column-mounted slewing jib crane with four jibs (each 1,000 kg capacity)

Column-mounted slewing jib crane with two jibs (each 1,000 kg capacity)

At the Kaup Company in Aschaffenburg / Germany – a leading provider of fork lift truck attachments – the idea of allocating an individual slewing crane to each workplace came to fruition.

A total of 74 VETTER slewing cranes in column and wall-mounted design were delivered, partly in special design with four jib arms being mounted onto one column. This gave each one of the 74 work areas its own slewing crane with waiting and downtimes due to lack of transport means being avoided. Fork lift trucks transport the initial material to the work areas and then everything else is done by the slewing cranes. Cranes with a capacity of 500 to 1,000 kg and an outreach of 5 to 6 m were installed. Regarding the support structure, two different versions were used: Columns were installed with up to four mounted jib arms, and the other used pre-existing hall supports to mount two to four jib arms. This special design resulted in great saving of space since only one column is necessary where normally the installation of four columns would require much more area.

Cranes with one or two jib arms are daily business for VETTER. "But the four-jib-arm design like in this case for the Kaup Company is something truly special. We don't do this everyday," this is how Stefan Müller, Dometic Sales Manager at VETTER, comments on this extraordinary project.

All workplaces have cranes mounted at different heights to prevent any individual jib arm from obstructing one another at nearby workplaces. Another special feature of the Kaup project is the fact that jib arms of the slewing cranes are used as feeding bridges providing individual workplaces with energy supply. This is how power, compressed air, etc., can be supplied to the work place with the utmost precision. Exhaust air such as welding gas etc. can also be carried off by means of suitable units.