Handling without limits

HOMAG CNC stationary cell with robotic feeding

Practically speaking, doors

connect or separate roomsthat is their purpose. But a door is much more than this, as nothing is shaped more by our individual personality than our own four walls. HOMAG has designed a processing cell that supplements a classic system for producing door leaves and offers particularly impressive flexibility. The Dutch door manufacturer BERKVENS TUR SYSTEMEN BV has been using the system successfully for six months and is producing doors with much more customization, thereby contributing significantly to designing indoor spaces.

The most important thing for people in Germany is their own four walls. This is shown repeatedly by surveys and statistics that place classic investment goods such as cars or electronic/ entertainment devices lower down in the rankings. It's easy to see why. Within our own four walls we find peace; they give us a feeling of well being and we recharge our batteries there. There are no limits to individuality in furnishings and design when it comes to getting the right feel-good atmosphere.

When designing rooms, the furniture and the color of the walls are not the only things to consider. The overall concept must be harmonious and the design of the doors is also very important. Doors enrich the comfort, functionality and atmosphere of rooms. They have different surfaces, different types of edges; cut-outs for glass panes or grooves; all of which allow them to be adapted excellently to suit individual tastes and the space within the room.

Automated CNC processing on two processing tables

To allow for individuality but still enable industrial production, as an addition to the finishing processing in door production, HOMAG has developed a CNC stationary cell for finalizing door leaves. At the core of this cell is a CENTATEQ P-500. It is fed automatically by a robot that moves in the X and Y axes.

The cell is connected directly to the classic throughfeed line and offers fully comprehensive processing of door leaves for fixtures, cut-outs for glass panes or decorative grooves.

The production sequence is as follows: The prefabricated door leaves are fed into the machine via a roller conveyor. Here they form a stack of unprocessed parts that the robot uses as the starting point for feeding the CENTATEQ. In the next step, the individual door leaf can be turned using an alignment table. It is placed in the correct position and simultaneously identified by a barcode scanner. The barcode gives the CNC processing center information about the properties of the door and the processing steps to be performed. The actual trimming of the door is the main part of production. The door is produced and processed according to the specifications.

The automatic processing means that the following actions are performed simultaneously: the robot places new door leaves on the alignment station, the robot disposes of offcuts and a new door leaf is placed on the other side of the processing table of the CENTATEQ. Finally, the robot unloads the processed door leaves onto the finished part stack. All feeding and handling processes can be executed independently of one another. The machine can be run in 100% shuttle operation with no waiting times.