E80 Group provides the safe and integrated Smart Factory
The company and its partner Gambini jointly present a solution for tissue companies that improves process automation with AGVs and a patented new unwinder
To build increasingly integrated, digital and sustainable smart factories capable of improving efficiency and safety throughout the supply chain: this was E80 Group and Gambini’s objective when they developed their new fully automatic converting line and optimized the interconnectivity of tissue factory production operations.
The system developed by the E80 Group – the company specialized in the development and installation of advanced automated and integrated intralogistics solutions for industry – and by Gambini, the leading manufacturer of machinery for tissue production, combines the movement of paper reels by two models of E80 Group automatic guided vehicles with a new, Gambini-patented automatic unwinder.
The solution boosts the efficiency of the supply chain by automating and integrating converting area operations, and also improves production line safety, as it avoids operators having to work with reels suspended overhead.
Parent reels are retrieved from the warehouse by E80 Group’s patented Unicorn Laser Guided Vehicle (LGV), which is specially designed for use in the tissue sector. These LGVs reduce waste and safeguard finished product quality. They can transport and lift parent reel up to 5 tons in weight and 3 meters in diameter and can form vertical stacks of up to three reels, for a total height of 9 m. Efficient stacking optimizes the use of warehouse space by up to 7% and reduces the risk of fire by minimizing the “chimney” effect.
Once delivered to the converting area, the reel is picked up by the ANT Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) and moved to Gambini’s innovative, automatic unwinding system. This eliminates all the risks associated with manual reel lifting and allows flying splices to be made without adhesive tape and without the presence of an operator, while the reel is overhanging. In addition to automatically orienting the reel to suit the unwinder, the ANT also interfaces with the Unicorn LGV to transport non-compliant or incomplete reels from the converting area to the warehouse, as well as handling empty cores.
E80 Group’s custom intralogistics solutions also optimize other supply chain operations thanks to palletizing robots specially designed for the tissue sector, pallet control systems, wrappers, robotic labellers and storage systems.
The E80 Group has already developed 350 integrated factories and installed over 2,500 robotic systems, 6,500 automatic LGVs and, since 2016, 40 automated high-density warehouses in various parts of the world. Their flagship software program, SM.I.LE80 (Smart Integrated Logistics) ensures perfect integration between systems and flows as well as total traceability of the products moved, from the entry of raw materials through to the shipping of finished products.
E80 Group solutions are also designed for ever greater sustainability in order to reduce the environmental impact of production, assembly and installation. Over the last three years the Group has cut energy consumption by 19%, production waste by 13%, noise pollution by 7% and production and assembly times by 23%. Sustainability is a value shared by all the Group’s collaborators, partners and customers.
Do you have questions about automation and latest intralogistics solutions?
E80 Group and Gambini will exhibit together at the MIAC trade show, which will be held on October 12-14, 2022, in Lucca, Italy.
Join them at Booth 99 to discuss your business needs and future challenges.
For more information, please visit https://www.miac.info/or get in contact with E80 (info@e80group.com).
