Nord Drivesystems Utilize Components for Surface Coating Facility
At the Nord Drivesystems headquarters in Bargteheide, Germany, the power, functionality and intelligence of Nord products are used to the company's own advantage across the factory floor, with geared motors and drive electronics handling various applications. Notably, this includes a recently established surface coating facility, where Nord systems drive overhead conveyors, fans and hoists.
The new surface coating facility at the Nord headquarters has twice the size of the previous paint shop. New paint booths, an automated high-bay warehouse for paint cure, and packing stations together occupy 1,400 m². An intelligent control system has, on average, halved the lead times for paint jobs. Any drive can be painted and shipped within two hours after assembly.
Paint line with a fast lane
Nord configures each drive system to order, drawing almost exclusively on components manufactured in-house. Application-specific coatings are part of this process. Fast processing of urgent orders has now become much easier. Previously, geared motors were routinely returned to the end of the queue once the first coat had been applied. The new conveyor system enables completely flexible routing: after curing, high-priority products can jump the queue and immediately get their next paint coat. Intelligent sorting algorithms also ensure that paint jobs with equal priority are optimally grouped by coating systems and shades. This has reduced wastage and setup times. In addition, state-of-the-art filter systems in the paint booths limit pollution to a minimum. The packing stations also draw on the smart sorting capabilities of the conveying systems: each packing station can be designated to handle a particular mode of shipment.
The right drive for each and every task
More than 100 drives take over various tasks in the new facility – Nord drive technology powers conveyors, hoists, exhaust ventilation and cooling fan systems. Drawing on its own modular drive program, Nord has configured optimal solutions for each of the various requirements. Both highly efficient helical bevel gear units and worm gearboxes with very high gear ratios are used. Depending on the performance and function requirements, the motors are controlled by different frequency inverter models.