Fully automated heat treatment line for aluminium

Fact sheet:

• Innovative system concept with jet heating and thermal recovery for homogenisation, solution annealing and quenching aluminium components.
• Modular design with 2 heat exchange furnaces for cooling and pre-heating, a warming furnace to holding temperature, 2 temperature holding furnaces for 2 batches each, a quenching system, 10 cooling positions and 37 storage or buffer positions
• Fully automatic charging with a charging machine controlled by a Siemens Simatic S7
• Batch tracking, automation and transport command control of the entire system using the prosys/2 control system and prover/2 automation software
• Control and regulation of all furnaces using 2 Demig DE-VX 4110, connected to a higher level prosys/2 control system

Responsible companies:

• Sales, mechanical design, energy footprint calculation and commissioning by BSN Thermprozesstechnik GmbH
• Project planning, with process and sequence optimisation and commissioning by Demig Anlagentechnik GmbH
• Switch cabinet construction and installation by Düster Elektrosteuerungsbau GmbH
• Process controllers and control system by Demig Prozessautomatisierung GmbH