Dream Factory expanded
Cimcorp’s revamped automation system offers an end-to-end tyre plant solution – from goods-in to finished tyre loading.
The end-to-end solution includes an optimised layout design that utilises 50 percent less floor space than conventional solutions and can be integrated with specialised software systems. It is designed to generate cost savings of up to 50 percent in materials handling capital investment by simplifying the material flow.
Kai Tuomisaari, Vice President of Sales and Projects, Cimcorp, said: “The acquisition of Cimcorp by warehouse management and distribution specialist, Muratec, enabled the addition of key upstream components to the Dream Factory solution. Muratec’s warehousing and transportation technologies are now fully integrated with Cimcorp’s systems, including a user-friendly interface for operators, to provide seamless data access throughout the entire manufacturing process.”
The Dream Factory solution is suitable for both brownfield and greenfield factory sites, with the original version already implemented around the globe. In fact, Cimcorp has delivered solutions to 14 of the top 25 tyre manufacturers globally, who between them manufacture 60% of the world’s tyres.
In the new Dream Factory, Cimcorp’s proven gantry robot technology and material handling specialty software – a combination of warehouse control software (WCS) and manufacturing execution systems (MES) – provide tangible benefits that include:
•Total control of the manufacturing process at each stage.
•Real-time data for production and inventory management, including 100 percent availability of raw materials, compounds, components, green tyres and finished tyres at each point in the manufacturing process.
•Optimum utilisation of the most valuable process machinery, such as building machines and curing presses, to secure crucial increases in production capacity.
•Streamlined material flow that allows plant managers to minimise buffering and maximize production efficiency.
•Reduced buffer storage and therefore minimised work in process (WIP).
•Minimised capital investment for greenfield sites through optimised layout design.
•More efficient use of space and increased capacity within given building constraints in brownfield sites.
