Decades of experience and permanent further development distinguish our skid conveyor technology and are valued by leading automobile manufacturers worldwide. Eisenmann offers the complete product range for almost every application and every weight class.

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In the paint shop, electric monorail systems are particularly suitable for underbody protection lines. Our shuttles have their own landing gear controls. This means that, if required, car body type-dependent stopping positions and times can be implemented. Furthermore, the EMS is characterized by very precise stopping accuracy and extremely smooth running. The full potential is achieved in combination with an optional swivel hanger. This allows the body to be rotated on both sides by up to 110 ° in manual workplaces, which enables ergonomic work.

The future is skidless. The modular VarioLoc conveyor system revolutionizes conveyor technology in the paint shop, as it makes the use of heavy skids superfluous. The VarioLoc can move forwards and backwards, can curve and climb and can therefore be used extremely flexibly. Compared to conventional skid conveyor technology, the use of the VarioLoc can reduce investment costs by up to 38 percent. The halving of the necessary drives, a drastic reduction in the number of signal transmitters and the elimination of reading points all contribute to this. The offline maintenance concept also helps to reduce costs, as fewer maintenance accesses are required on the route. The servicing and maintenance of the locs takes place exclusively at maintenance stations that are decoupled from the route. This means that if maintenance is required, the entire system does not come to a standstill unnecessarily. Up to now, the heavy skids on which the bodies drive through the dryer had to be heated up and cooled down again each time during the drying process. With around 200 kilograms per skid, this is an enormous amount of energy. Since there are no skids with VarioLoc, up to 13 percent energy costs can be saved in the dryer area alone. Flexible capacity management is also easy to implement with VarioLoc, as the system can be expanded without major modifications and the Locs can be used anywhere.

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The VarioMover is a driverless transport vehicle with an integrated lifting table. It drives under the bodies, lifts them and transports them to a defined destination. The VarioMover can optionally transport the bodies with or without a skid, because its length can be variably adjusted. It can take loads of up to 1,500 kilograms. Equipped with a camera and controlled by a master computer, the VarioMover finds its way to the destination at a speed of up to one meter per second via an optical lane guidance system. Barcode labels serve as position indicators. Existing routes can be used by the VarioMover and humans at the same time. The vehicle is equipped with a 360 degree protective field and automatically reduces its speed when obstacles approach. In this respect, it is safe for people in terms of collision protection.

The factory of the future knows no rigid procedures and processes – the goal is nothing less than series production with batch size 1. This requires intelligent, flexibly configurable conveyor systems that clear the way for the production of a wide variety of car bodies and vehicle models on one and the same system. With VarioStore, Eisenmann has developed a concept for a flexible, adaptable car body warehouse that makes large, expensive high-bay warehouses a thing of the past. VarioStore is an area storage system that offers the greatest possible flexibility when relocating space and changing capacity by breaking with the concept of the rigid conveyor systems that have been used up to now. As a result, any free areas and area blanks can be used as storage, such as hall roofs. This is realized through the use of the driverless transport system VarioStore. If the customer decides to use VarioStore in an existing space, investment cost savings of up to 61 percent can be achieved. The reason for this is the omission of the complete storage block, the storage and retrieval machines and the conveyor technology in the front of the rack compared to the use of a high-bay warehouse.

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