In-plant transport and process applications
FORO designs and builds turnkey in-plant transport installations (including electric installation, automation and data capturing) featuring the following elements and capabilities.
- Industrial conveyor lines for a wide range of solid products (boxes, pallets, tiles, clay roof tiles, bricks...).
- Pulley-belts based conveyors
- Motorized roller based conveyors
- Plain or toothed synchronized belt based conveyors
- Industrial conveyor lines for a wide range of granulated and powder products such as feeds, sugar, concrete, clay, atomised powders, frits, gravels, pellets, etc.
- Belt driven
- Endless screw driven
- On fluidised bed (air-sliders)
- By pneumatic transport
- Transport automation at different degrees:
- Geared motor with mechanical speed variation
- Geared motor with frequency inverters
- Servomotor + gearbox + control drivers
- High accuracy positioning of the product for printing, marking, processing, machining...
- Capture and dumping of production recipes to the conveyor lines and the linked processing applications (section speeds, configurable parameters of the automatons...)
- Production data capture
- Production database generation, alarm setting...
- Robotics: Robotic systems for all industries, especially foods and ceramics
- Computer Vision: computer vision systems development and set up, quality control and physical inspection of products (size, serial numbers, components, etc.)
- Industrial Software Development: Management and Control software development. System integration with plant or business platforms
- Auxiliary elements for conveyor lines:
- Metallic supporting structures (e.g. overhead lines, plant structure-attached lines)
- Cord curves
- Belt curves
- Chain-slat curves
- 90º L shaped curves
- Belt turners
- Roller turners
- Junction/bifurcation elements between different lines
- Distributors
- Entrance and exit roller tables for applications, interfaces between roller tables and transport lines
- Dispensers and flow regulators
- Row makers
- Product accumulators to manage line stops
- Line lengtheners for processes with drying requirements
- Pneumatic clamps for robot manipulation
- Weighting cells
- Auxiliary elements for addition or decoration of products through different techniques (Silkscreen printing, gravure, spraying, waterfall, dripping, sprinkling, granulate applying...) including transport and stirring elements for the applied product (Mixers, stirring tanks, sieves, iron removing devices, pumps, filters...)
- Coding and Marking:
- Inkjet Printers: Inkjet printers for coding and identifying products, printing directly on primary and secondary containers and on any surface (cardboard, plastic, metal, etc)
- CIJ printers for small size marking (batch numbers, expiry dates...)
- Label printing and applying
- Inks and Media
- RFID Systems: RFID systems development, including software development , RFID printers, media and RFID scanners
- Scanners: Scanners and Code Controllers for coding systems, warehouses, etc. Integration into stock management systems
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Industrial sieving installations for different products and activity sectors: Food and agriculture, wine-producing, clay and mining, recycling, pharmacy...