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Production flow applications
the value of automated production flow FlexLink delivers automated production flow solutions that enable you to optimize the flows in your production processes. We offer solutions that enhance the efficiency of your processes by minimizing non-value adding operations and bottlenecks, which can cut throughput time by as much as half. Reduced operational costs and lowering the environmental impact goes hand in hand with FlexLink s solutions, minimizing both power consumption and total waste. Our material handling products and conveyor systems help you increase your production efficiency. We elevate, accumulate, distribute, divert, orient or push your products, making sure products follow the process path in a seamless, waste-less way. Value + DELIVERY SERVICE PROFITABILITY QUALITY ASSURANCE ERGONOMICS Production flow solutions by FlexLink Automated production flow solutions improve operational performance in manufacturing industries. - Cost THROUGHPUT TIME NON-VALUE ADDING OPERATIONS MANUAL ADMINISTRATION WORK IN PROCESS (WIP) STOCK OF FINISHED GOODS
Solutions for elevation and accessibility Reclaim valuable floor space By elevating your production flow, you reclaim valuable floor space, which enables you to add more production capacity or increase accessibility for your operators. We offer spiral, wedge, and incline conveyors along with chutes. Our experts will help you choose the right elevation solution based on factors such as throughput, the processes involved and the features of the products as they appear in the line. Avoid timing losses and choose the continuous flow solutions from FlexLink. Refined design and standardized interfaces to the up- and downstream equipment make the solutions not only efficient but also accommodating to various products. The incline elevator conveyor is designed for single or multiple lane elevation. It provides gentle handling of sensitive products. The spiral elevator provides a continuous product flow; the elevation is as simple and reliable as a normal straight conveyor.
Elevation in a continuous flow, seemingly effort-free, without stops or capacity losses. The solution is easily adjustable for different product sizes.
Solutions for accumulation and balancing balance the flow, boost throughput A perfectly balanced flow optimizes your production output. Use buffers, diverters, mergers or dynamic speed control to balance the flow, letting the line breathe and avoid queuing on the line. You can also easily distribute the flow to ensure that the right amount of product arrives on time at the downstream machines. Together with our engineers, you decide the solution best suited for your products and needs. With more than 30 years of experience balancing flows, we have standardized functions for handling high speed lines, mass flows, and both FIFO and LIFO configurations. Lack of floor space? The alpine buffer stacks vertically to reduce the footprint. Integrate it in-line or off-line and choose your configuration: FIFO or LIFO. The Dynamic Motion Transfer (DMT ) perfectly balances production flows at very high rates, topping 1,000 products per minute, depending on application.
Buffer tables are suitable for balancing and letting lines breathe, for instance at the line loading following depalletizing. A flexible design lets you decide the number of infeeds and outfeeds in accordance to your needs.
Solutions for changing product orientation precise orientation, reduced waste An incorrectly oriented product can cause severe stops or jams in the production flow, leading to capacity losses and increased waste. When choosing among different techniques to orient your products, such as tilting, pushing and rotating, we ensure that the solution is robust enough to handle high speed flows and that high levels of accuracy and capability are achieved. Careful handling of your products at high capacity makes a significant impact to your production efficiency. NY BILD A twister allows you to change the orientation of the product in-line and also dynamically. It is even possible to turn products up-side down. Pushers push products perpendicularly from one conveyor track to another or into and out of workstations.
STANDARDIZED FUNCTIONS Proven and efficient Do you value high line efficiency and functions that are proven, reliable and well suited for your needs? FlexLink has a wide range of functions that have been developed based on industry know-how and the experiences from thousands of installations worldwide. The functions are bespoke for the FlexLink solutions so you can rest assured that the functionality is 100%. To make the engineers life easy, the functions are delivered as ready to fit modules. Standardized function modules for engineering convenience Adjustable guide rails are available in both manual and automated versions. The changeover procedure becomes both easy and exact. This way, operators is released to support the changeover where it is best needed. The inline conveyor cleaning and drying unit is designed to run continuously. Conveyors are kept clean to the benefit of product quality and service life of the equipment. The pack turner is extremely compact and precise in operation. The soft sponge rolls gently turn the packs in speeds up to 60 m/ min through 90 or 180 degrees. The driven transfer design ensures there are no products stalling across conveyor transfers.
Youtilize The efficiency toolbox BE incommand Youtilize is our suite of functions for improved production efficiency. Service Monitoring With Service Monitoring you have access to the health status of your conveyor in real time. Plan your improvements and preventive maintenance to minimize unplanned stops and extend equipment utilization. Production Monitoring Gain access to important production efficiency data in real time with Production Monitoring. Locate bottlenecks and root causes through production and machine utilization reports or make trend analyses and comparisons. Youtilize enables you to work proactively with line efficiency improvements. Factory Control With Factory Control, you have access to track & trace functionality that can be used to manage all resources in the assembly process, i.e. operators, machines and parts as well as all the data required for production and quality assurance. Service Monitoring Production Monitoring Factory Control