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Wing production for the Airbus A380
S 3000 – double safety for travelling production gantry
Eight safety laser scanners in use on a production gantry for Airbus components
in Spain
S 3000 safety laser scanners not only monitor the 50 m long and 11 m
wide path of a giant production gantry for Airbus components – they also
protect employees who are working below the gantry.
>> The plants produced by the Spanish
company M. Torres join carbon fibre
tape together, layer for layer, for the
production of wings and other components
of the Airbus A380. As a result of
the size of the wings – they are, after
Only the S 3000 could do it
Vertical protective field for
safety on wafer robots
With its reliable view from above, an S 3000 Standard
protects the operators of a wafer-polishing plant from
reaching into the workspace of the handling robot. Only
the S 3000 could solve this task because it is the only
safety scanner of its type to be approved for vertical protection.
>> Peter Wolters Surface Technologies
GmbH & Co. KG in Rendsburg, one of the
leading producers of highly accurate finesmoothing
and polishing machine tool
systems, was looking for a reliable solution
that prevented operators reaching
into the robot’s workspace during operation
but did not hinder access to the double-sided
wafer polishing plant. The
S 3000 Standard was best suited for the
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all, 40 m long – the processing tool
travels over the aeroplane part under
production by means of a gantry.
Four S 3000s for the drive path
Two S 3000 laser scanners per direc-
machine conditions. The device is installed
on the upper section of the machine
framework with a sufficient safety
distance. With its resolution of 30 mm
the scanner instantly detects if a hand
reaches into the machine. The hazardous
movement of the robot in the polishing
plant is then immediately halted.
Vertical monitoring with the S 3000
– the perpendicular safety solution.
Applications
tion of transport ensure that no persons
or objects are present on the
tracks along which the gantry moves.
An automatic switching of the two scanner
pairs takes place to match the direction
of gantry movement.
Four S 3000s for the production
zone
Employees put down layers of the carbon
fibre tape while the gantry is in motion.
The application tool on the gantry
then applies a glue-like material to join
the individual carbon fibre tape layers
together. Four further S 3000s form an
invisible protective barrier around the
tool’s operating area in order to protect
workers.
Eight S 3000s for the Airbus A380 –
not an everyday application.
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You can obtain further product information
with the attached card under:
INFO 202
or on the Internet at:
www.sick.de/S3000
More about the customer:
www.mtorres.es
Polishing plant protected with the
S 3000
insightLINK
You can obtain further product information
with the attached card under:
INFO 202
or on the Internet at:
www.sick.de/S3000
More about the customer:
www.peter-wolters.com
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