Fully automated sawing and storage solution from KASTO at SEW-EURODRIVE

 

Perfect synergy in the provision of materials

Maximum efficiency achieved through automation: KASTO and SEW-EURODRIVE have developed a complete solution that seamlessly integrates metal saws and storage technology to supply the drive technology specialist's production with semi-finished products from a centralised location. No matter if the batch size is 1 or 10,000, the globally unique system organises each process step fully automatically.

The User – 22,000 employees worldwide, 17 production plants and 92 Drive Technology Centers in 56 countries. With sales of 4.5 billion euros (2023), SEW-EURODRIVE is one of the global market leaders in the drive technology/drive automation sector. The company's headquarters are located in Bruchsal, Baden in Germany.

The Challenge – Demagnetization and separation of 15 tonnes of steel bar stock bundles. This involves transporting three or six-metre-long tubes and bars with diameters ranging from 22 to 260 millimetres to the saw, cutting them to size, and selecting segments for production. The goal is to accomplish all of this fully automatically and with minimal operator intervention. As part of their strategic partnership, SEW and KASTO set an ambitious goal for supplying the new production facility. With this, the sawing and storage technology experts were faced with one of the largest orders in the company's 180-year history.

The Solution – During the planning and implementation of the new 4,000-square-meter warehouse for the north production facility in Graben-Neudorf, KASTO and SEW chose to combine a UNICOMPACT honeycomb storage system with 5,140 storage spaces for cassettes weighing up to three tonnes with a KASTOcenter sawing centre containing 450 spaces for individual bars.