Bulletin 2/2010 - Siempelkamp NIS

Glue application and joining of mineral wool core and cover layers
Custom-made control system – complete quality control
The control system for such a highly-complex production line
plays an important role. The Finnish customer made great
demands on Siempelkamp regarding such a system.
The control system is divided into several levels. The PLC machine
controller ensures the functional sequence of all machines,
records the process data for the adjustment of the plant parameters
and the production values for the determination of
cutting lengths and stack sizes.
With an ERP system, the customer develops the upcoming production
list including all data concerning raw material, product
and customer. This information is transferred to an SQL database
which handles the data exchange. According to this data,
Siempelkamp machinery retrieves the corresponding mineral
wool from storage, adjusts the glue application machine, the
heating system of the double belt and many other process
parameters which are stored in recipe databases.
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When the production of one batch is completed, the actually
produced product parameters are recorded to the database. At
the same time, a number of other information about the production
is put into the database including the measured process
values regarding the temperature, pressure, glue amounts, and
production time. “With the help of such complex details, the
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