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October 2003
Celebrating The first ZF36 goes to the Eisenberg
Quicker Bags High Refractory Plant EKW
left: PA8 for Bag Palletizing right: EKW Celebration
On September 12th, 2003 the
Eisenberg High Refractory Plant
EKW celebrated its 100th anniversary. Right on time for this event we
started up a new PA8 layer palletizer there.
Open House Day was on September
13th and we could demonstrate how
our automation technology can speed
things up even within a difficult environment. Bag palletizing is run of the
mill for us, but in this case we were
presented with new challenges. The
bags which needed to be palletized
are unwieldy and heavy. There were
also different formats for different
products. Small amounts of the bags’
contents trickle out during transport.
For this reason our PA8 had to be not
only fast, but also sturdy and easy to
clean. We adapted it accordingly.
What makes this PA8 special is the
new bag infeed ZF 36. This infeed
was especially developed for bag palletizing. The ZF 36 can handle bags of
grain and dog food as well as sand
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A U T O M A T O N
M A R A T H O N
Innovative Technology at the FachPack 2003
Things were in motion again at
our booth at FachPack 2003 in
Nuremberg. We had a lot of new
items from our development and production to show. The center of attention was a PA8 with a new modular
infeed system ZF 31 for boxes and
trays. The ZF 31 can do much more
than simply feed in products: depending on their size, a pusher groups one
to four boxes, the following turning
Booth at FachPack 2003 with PA8
Of Greatest Importance:
New Eisenberg
Post Office Box
Address
After many years of intensive
effort we have finally been able
to get a larger post office box.
We’re very happy about that.
What we’re less happy about is
that our post office box number
and our zip code have changed.
Please use only »Postfach
1380« with zip code »67300
Eisenberg« from now on!
If you continue to use our old
numbers your mail will be returned to you with the notation:
»Receiver unknown«. That’s understandable, considering that
Eisenberg is a small town with
about 10,000 residents and not
many companies. We’re one of
the biggest here. How can we
expect the person who sorts the
mail in the only post office the
town has to know that? That
would be demanding too much.
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WHO
People in Freiberg and Eisenberg
IS WHO
Anniversaries
This section has been confined to our employees, but this time
around we want to make an exception because we have an
anniversary to celebrate of something that significantly influenced
the development of our firm:
Within the next weeks we will be delivering our 200th layer
palletizer. It is a PA8 which will be going to the Paper Processing
Works Fripa in Miltenberg. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished: 200 layer palletizers in 18 years. That’s more than 10
palletizers per year. We congratulate Fripa and look forward to the
next 200. How long will it take this time?
Rainer Klos - our best Master Electrician in Rheinland-Pfalz - was on
the spot at once. Did he jump on his motorcycle in really urgent
cases? All the best to you!
Not quite as long as the above mentioned, but 10 years is also a
long time to be keeping things in order in our store. Stephan Seib
has been working in our Goods Receiving for that long. With his
talent for organization he brings incoming goods into the proper
channels quickly and efficiently. We look forward to the next 10
years.
Anniversaries in Freiberg
Rico Dienel has been with our team almost from the
beginning. Our welding specialist has been seeing to
precision seams for 10 years now. We wish him all
the best and also the best connections.
The PA8
Stephan Seib
Rico Dienel
Matthias Lutzke
Norbert Klatte
Stephan Hassert
You can really do time with us. In every issue of our info letter we
present employees who have been with us for 10, 15, or 20 and
more years. We’re a firm in which our employees can grow and
develop and which - despite the slackening of the economy created new jobs within the past 3 years. When we need to fill
new positions we sometimes wish that graduates and experienced specialists were more aware of the quality and security of the
positions we offer. Working for Langhammer is worth it!
Anniversaries in Eisenberg
He’s spent half of his life with us, that’s why Stephan Hassert our specialist for difficult design tasks - has two reasons to
celebrate: on August 1st he reached his 20th year with us and on
October 18th his 40th birthday. Double congratulations! If he’ll
be the one sitting at the keyboard singing us one of his own compositions at the big party? That would be great!
Rainer Klos can look back at 20 years at Langhammer as well.
They were not always easy years. Whenever problems turned up
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Birthdays - Eisenberg
Since the 25th of October Edgar Gebhardt can look
back on 40 successful years. Even though reluctant at
first he was made to Team Leader of his Team due to
Rainer Klos
Edgar Gebhart
his experience and he now oversees the assembly of our palletizers. As a good family father with 2 children he has also been successful in his private life. All the best!
Birthdays - Freiberg
60 years old and not a gray hair! Only Norbert Klatte - our storekeeper in Freiberg and one of the first employees there - could
accomplish that! We wish him a great birthday party and ourselves
that we profit from his experience for a long time.
Wedding
Important software material has to be thought through systematically and assessed according to its effects - that can take time.
Matthias Lutzke needed 6 years until he had developed and
tested the »Marrying Silke« program. Finally, on August 8th, he
was ready. We’re certain, there are no more bugs to worry about
and as an experienced troubleshooter Matthias Lutzke will have
masterfully codified this new configuration. We wish the young
couple a virus-free running time.
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Continuation from page 1 EKW
Continuation from page 1 FachPack2003
and cement. Incoming bags are arranged according to the desired pattern and transported to the palletizer.
A split sliding apron in the PA8 makes for exact pattern arrangements. During palletization
pressure on individual bags or on layers is possible. Switching over to a new pattern
formation takes only a matter of seconds with the Touch Screen Panel. At the moment
the bags at EKW are running at ca. 600 per hour - that being the capacity of the filling station. Without any additional changes the PA8 can palletize up to 1800 25 kg bags per
hour - i.e. 45 tons of high refractory cement mix in an hour. That’s two fully loaded
trucks.
area turns the individual pieces
or groups 90° to the left or to the
right or 180° around so that predetermined box sides face to the outside.
The new »C« conveyor could be
seen in operation, as well as a new
pallet roller conveyor and a new pallet turning table. Our bar was part of
the whole attraction again as well.
We were very happy to be able to
greet many regular guests who stopped by and informed themselves
about our innovations.
Detlef Osterfeld, Plant Manager and Bernd Karg, Technical Design (EKW).
Robot in action
Applications and Customers
PA 8 w i t h Z F 1 4 4 a t F r i p a
BATHROOM TISSUE IN 12 PACK
We’ve solved some of the most
unusual tasks at Fripa in Miltenberg in the past. Extensions of the
installed unit were continually required. We integrated a new rewinder which had to be set up off to the
side - into our Matrix distribution. We
built a 128 meter long transport lane
in a tent corridor to transport loaded
pallets from the processing hall into
the new warehouse.
This time Fripa ordered two new
PA8s with the Tissue Infeed ZF 144
in an improved version. Improve-
ments are an everyday thing for us,
but this new ZF 144 is a small revolution. It masters the infeed of bathroom tissue in a 12 pack for a new
display pallet: 4 rolls high and 3 wide.
This pallet type has been introduced
by a leading Discounter.
It is spreading in the current market and is viewed as the sales pallet
of the future. We’re proud of the fact
that at the moment we are the only
ones who can palletize this type of
pallet automatically and at highest
speeds. Fripa is happy.
Display Pallet
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Production News
Tried and True Technology for New Tasks
D PA 1
Unloads Pallets Automatically
For Harry Brot it was a special solution, now it has become a standard product: DPA1, our first off-the-shelf depalletizer is now available. Its
development was actually very logical: palletizing is our business and
we’ve been delivering dependable units for decades. The idea that our
technology can also be used to unload loaded pallets got us a contract
with Harry Brot. Harry Brot wanted to be able to automatically unload and
transport pallets of empties. So we developed the DPA1. It unloads pallets, transports the load to the transport technology for further processing
and transports the empty pallets to the empty pallet stacker. As a flexible
standard product the DPA1 can handle loads from bags to plastic crates.
Our automation technology has found its way to goods receiving.
A CLEAN CUT
Impressum
Help for Smooth Edges
Producer
CREATIVE IDENTITY
Redaktion: Peter Steding
Grafik: Kerstin Diacont
Druck: Druck und Verlag Sommer,
Grünstadt
Publisher
Langhammer Maschinenbau GmbH
Siemensstr. 2 · 67304 Eisenberg/Pfalz
Tel.+49(0) 63 51 / 900 - 0 · Fax 900 - 180
email: [email protected]
Am Junger Löwe Schacht 7
09599 Freiberg/Sachsen
Tel. +49(0) 37 31 / 67 00 - 0 · Fax 67 00 -18
email: [email protected]
Internet: http://www.langhammer.de
AIDING GOOD CHEER:
The protection doors of our units
usually have a window so that the
operator can see everything. This window consists of a sheet of Makrolon - a
shock-resistant plastic with a sensitive
surface. For this reason it is protected
with foil until the unit is put into operation - similar to the display on modern
mobile phones. Before start-up the foil
should be removed. But this foil is
clamped into the frame together with
the plastic sheet and so an ugly teared
off residue remains. That bothered our
colleague Rico Lempe. He developed a
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foil scoring knife with distance holder. With this knife the foil can be
scored all along the Makrolon sheet
at the same distance to the edge.
The resulting small strip can then be
removed from the sheet before it is
mounted into the frame. When our
customer removes the protective
foil he now has a clean and foil-free
window that not only looks better,
but also gets less dirty. Once again
a good practical idea for practical
purposes. We thank Rico Lempe.
A Christmas Present
In our last issue we reported
on the vacation the children
from the Children’s Village had.
We had contributed to this
event with our Christmas 2002
Donation. The happiness of the
children as well as the reaction
of the Langhammer Info readers have confirmed us in our
intent to donate our budget for
Christmas presents this year to
the Children’s Village again.
We’re convinced that we are
acting in agreement with you
and we’ll report about what our
donation was used for next
year.