The essential part of our production is forging hammers. Because hammers need auxiliary machines they are connected into a forging line and comprise: forging hammers, punching presses, induction heating devices and manipulation of hot pieces.We have:  12 forging lines.

FORGING LINES:

– 4 lines equipped with drop hammers- 8 lines equipped with hydraulic hammersIn addition to these basic machines in the forge, we also use in the manufacture of forged parts:- 4 lines for cutting the basic material- 4 lines for sandblasting forged parts 

TOOL-MAKING FACTORY

The tools used in our company are manufactured in our tool-making factory, where the following machines are essential:

• 2 CNC milling machines Makino
• 3 CNC milling machines Hurco
• 7 CNC milling machines Haas
• 2 wire erosions
• 3 submersible erosions

Our own knowledge and development have been oriented into the production of dedicated machines 

The increase of the competition, high demands of the market regarding the quality as well as the rationalisation and bigger flexibility of the production dictate the need for the production rationalisation.After many market researches we found too complex solutions or we found out that no standard solution exists for the specific problem, therefore, we decided to make usage of our own knowledge and development. We launched the planning and production of different types of dedicated machines.We have noticed the largest need in the process of raw parts manipulation on the way to the induction furnace and further to the workplace of forging, which we successfully solve by using the feeding device at all forging lines.Furthermore, we recognized the problems, developed solutions and carried out testing in other operations in our company and consequently developed many dedicated machines. Today we use the following dedicated machines:

• automatic feeding device
• automatic band grinding machine
• different automatic dosages of pieces
• pre bending machine for pieces
• automatic measuring and sorting system

26 active robots are the fruit of our knowledge and development

 Processes where power, precision, speed and continuous operation is required are suitable to be modernised with robots. Therefore, we recognised our production as very appropriate and started with very intensive automatization ten years ago. 26 active robots in our production processes are the result of our work.  All robotised processes are the fruit of our knowledge and development; therefore, we are more flexible and adjustable within the process itself. All our systems are equipped with IT control solutions.In our production, we use robots for various operations. In cases of using CNC machines robots from dedicated stores take pieces and insert them into the clamping devices of the machines. In the opposite direction, they discharge the machines; blow out the residues of the treatment, emulsions.

The introduction of artificial intelligence in the production processes 

IoT is one the major pillars of industry 4.0. This segment remains besides the automatization one of the two main development fields in our company. We work accelerated together with our development partners on the introduction of artificial intelligence in the production processes as well as the communication machine <-> machine.With the development of RRI Project (Machine Intelligence for Effective Production through Prediction of Maintenance and Optimization of Production Processes) resulting in the system which will comprise IoT and applications for data collection from this device as well as the efficient saving, and analysing of this “big data” with the help of Machine Learning we will contribute to the key objective – to increase the level of production robotization and automatization.

Our own dedicated measuring systems contribute to better work efficiency

Appropriate measuring equipment is essential for the control of our products, processes and purchased material. Variability of processes is a cause for scrap and inefficiency, high costs for assuring the quality and labour costs, moreover, it causes undesired delays.The market research gave us too complex measuring systems. There is not enough adaptability, solutions are rigid. That was the reason why we started with the development of dedicated measuring systems to find nonconformities.We have focused on the transitions between phases, as an early detection of process variation contributes to lower scrap and greater efficiency. Robotic production of the line is of an additional importance, since there are no delays and inefficiencies between the different phases of such a line.