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Left: Fully automatic<br />
plant for heat-treating<br />
the deburred castings.<br />
On the left, the<br />
special racks that are<br />
designed to prevent<br />
warpage.<br />
Right: The castings in<br />
their racks pass<br />
through numerous<br />
pools in the wash and<br />
passivation plant.<br />
Electric driverless<br />
forklifts automatically<br />
transport full and<br />
empty racks for the<br />
castings from station<br />
to station.<br />
replaces the part on the rack – which is<br />
then transported to a fully automatic<br />
wash and passivation line with successive<br />
baths. Some internal transport within the<br />
foundry is carried out by electric driverless<br />
forklifts that drive backwards and<br />
forwards between the stations without<br />
collisions. The final step of the process<br />
chain is the packaging line where employees<br />
manually insert the parts into<br />
Audi-specific transport con tainers. Scanning<br />
of the data matrix code again ensures<br />
that only ‘in order’ parts are<br />
dispatched, and that each part is precisely<br />
allocated to its transport container.<br />
Swiss reliability during<br />
the development and supply<br />
of castings<br />
“This project underlines that we can<br />
ensure a reliable worldwide supply of<br />
high-tech die-cast components for our<br />
partners in the automotive industry,”<br />
sums up Axel Schmidt. In addition to the<br />
jointly implemented component and process<br />
development, DGS also largely designed<br />
and implemented the necessary<br />
plant technology itself. One thus proves<br />
oneself to be a competent partner who<br />
can be trusted with the highly reliable<br />
supply of high-tech components on a<br />
worldwide basis. Naturally, DGS also had<br />
to, and could, take into account the price<br />
expectations of the customer during this<br />
project, otherwise the collaboration<br />
would never have been possible. He is, of<br />
course, particularly pleased that this<br />
development was awarded first prize in<br />
the die-casting competition at Euroguss<br />
trade fair in 2018. This is also an incentive<br />
for proving that European companies<br />
still have plenty of inventive spirit<br />
and technical perfection for successfully<br />
asserting themselves in worldwide competition<br />
on demanding markets.<br />
www.dgs-druckguss.com<br />
CASTING PLANT & TECHNOLOGY 2/<strong>2019</strong> 19
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