Partners 4 Steel supply the steel trade with individual solutions from a single, reliable source
Partners 4 Steel – abbreviated to P4S – attach particular importance to customer cooperation. Working closely with the end user, the three partners engineer the perfect individual solution from their extensive performance spectrum.
“The important thing is that as a manufacturer, we keep a finger on the pulse of market changes in the steel trade and position ourselves accordingly”, sums up Christian Behringer, CEO of sawing machine manufacturer Behringer GmbH from Kirchardt. Whether in terms of the prefabrication services that are expected as a matter of course from today’s steel trade, or the individual adjustment of automation components for reliable material handling. In particular steel trade customers who require not only sawing technology but also production systems for drilling, punching, flame cutting and marking in order to process girders prior to preparation for delivery, have come to the right address with Partners 4 Steel. The “Partners 4 Steel” cooperation partners Behringer GmbH (sawing technology), Vernet Behringer (plants for steel construction) and Rösler GmbH (surface finishing) together supply everything from a single source. “This also includes the production of individual infeed and discharge devices and roller conveyor systems. Our in-house steel construction department implements specifically tailored systems”, emphasizes Christian Behringer.
Drilling, milling and sawing in a single unit
Behringer and Vernet Behringer will be presenting an innovative new machine with an additional X axis and a range of new functional features in the form of the new HD-Xevo.
Features of the new HD-XEVO from Vernet Behringer are significantly higher throughput when machining profiles and scope not only for carbide drilling but also milling. The new CNC-controlled gantry drilling machine comes with three drilling spindles, each extended by an X axis with a 500 mm traversing path. “This X axis enables a girder to be completely finish drilled over a length of 500 mm without the need to reclamp the material for each new drilling operation”, explains CEO Christian Behringer. Apart from increasing the machining speed, this also enables a substantial improvement in terms of precision, as it eliminates any inaccuracy caused by displacement during positioning. If the material is not reclamped, the machine is able to achieve a tolerance of ± 0.1 mm over a length of 500 mm. All axes are positioned by means of servo drives using ball screws. Another benefit of the new system is the facility for milling oblong holes and notched shapes. This saves the need for any downstream work steps. Marking using the “V scoring” method allows characters above and beyond the customary numerical and letter combinations to be inscribed, so facilitating the even more precise positioning of girders on the building site.
Drill and tool changes without loss of time
The gantry machine in connection with an attached mitre bandsaw is generally ideally suited for drilling, thread tapping and scribing girders and profiles. Its stable structure permits precise movements with high feed and working speeds. Linear movements can be travelled at up to 20 metres per minute. Each drilling unit encompasses an automatic tool changer for 6 tools (optionally up to 12 tools). Access to these is regulated by the control system. The Vernet Behringer machine is ideally suited for the use of carbide drills, as plenty of spindle power and speed are provided by the high-grade 15kW drive systems and up to 4000 rpm. The use of new and exclusive milling tools enables even faster production, providing an unrivalled degree of performance. What’s more, the entire machining process comprising combined milling, drilling and sawing can be three-dimensionally depicted and tracked on screen.
The drilling machine has a clamping width of 1,200 millimetres, while the regular drilling diameter is between 8 and 50 mm.
No reworking thanks to a neat cut
The attached HBP510-1208G mitre bandsaw is specifically designed to be lined up with the drilling plant. “A common situation for our customers is that sizing is carried out under contract and calls for a high degree of precision. This means that the efficiency of the mitre bandsaw is paramount”, explains Christian Behringer. With a cutting range of 1200 x 510 mm and bilateral mitres of 30° on the right to 30° on the left, the machine is ideally suited to address the needs of the steel construction industry and the steel trade. Its use ensures precise cuts and a significant increase in plant throughput. The mitre bandsaw’s gantry design is rugged and torsionally resistant. The saw blade guiding components are made of vibration-damping grey cast iron, which impacts positively on tool service life. The inclined saw frame reduces the maximum engagement length of the bandsaw blade, and is specifically designed to ensure the perfect cutting of large girders or rectangular hollow profiles. With its high-powered saw drive packing a full 13.2 kW output and optional servo feed with AFC (Auto-Feed-Control), it is capable of achieving impressively high cutting performance levels. Used in combination with finely graduated cutting force regulation, the feed and cutting speed are adapted in line with length of saw blade engagement in the material. The result: guaranteed high cutting performance due to consistent chip removal and an optimum tool service life. It is also ideal for use with carbide bandsaw blades.
Used in combination with the coordinated shot blasting technology provided by Rösler, production lines are configured which are coordinated precisely to the machining process and the workpieces (sawing, drilling, shot blasting and painting) without any interface problems – all from a single source. The precisely detailed technical coordination which takes place between the three competence partners makes for a radically simplified decision-making process as early as the project engineering phase. Aspects which previously had to be coordinated by the user are now taken care of by Partners 4 Steel, saving time and creating an immediate overview of all the major issues such as cost transparency and production conditions. Renowned global players from the steel industry already place their trust in the expertise of these specialists on a daily basis.
Meticulously planned material handling saves time and costs
Within the framework of Partners 4 Steel, Behringer GmbH also supplies the entire plant technology, including a suitable control system. Depending on the requirement, infeed and discharge roller conveyors, cross conveyors or length measuring devices can be added. For low-manned operation in the steel trade, for instance, a computer-controlled material management system ensures unambiguous order assignment, from incoming material through to the building site. Using roller conveyor systems, the girder is transported into the drilling plant, then subsequently sawn and surface treated. The prefabricated girders then travel out of the plant and into an order picking zone. Ideally, the material hardly needs to be touched by human hand from the time it enters the factory until it is loaded for shipping. This is made possible by the world’s only fully automatic control and transport management system from Behringer GmbH. “Our TMS functions dynamically and takes care of smart navigation of the girders through complex plants. It seeks out the most sensible, fastest or shortest route to the order picking location, depending on the wording of the order”, explains Christian Behringer. The central management system allows staff to pinpoint the exact location of each girder inside the plant. The individual roller conveyor sections can be actuated separately to facilitate the prioritization of certain orders, to compensate for changes in sequence or channel specific girders out of the current process. “No matter how different the girders in terms of their size or shape, the transport system affords maximum flexibility”, he adds.
Partners 4 Steel – abbreviated to P4S – attach particular importance to customer cooperation. Working closely with the end user, the three partners engineer the perfect individual solution from their extensive performance spectrum.
“The important thing is that as a manufacturer, we keep a finger on the pulse of market changes in the steel trade and position ourselves accordingly”, sums up Christian Behringer, CEO of sawing machine manufacturer Behringer GmbH from Kirchardt. Whether in terms of the prefabrication services that are expected as a matter of course from today’s steel trade, or the individual adjustment of automation components for reliable material handling. In particular steel trade customers who require not only sawing technology but also production systems for drilling, punching, flame cutting and marking in order to process girders prior to preparation for delivery, have come to the right address with Partners 4 Steel. The “Partners 4 Steel” cooperation partners Behringer GmbH (sawing technology), Vernet Behringer (plants for steel construction) and Rösler GmbH (surface finishing) together supply everything from a single source. “This also includes the production of individual infeed and discharge devices and roller conveyor systems. Our in-house steel construction department implements specifically tailored systems”, emphasizes Christian Behringer.
Drilling, milling and sawing in a single unit
Behringer and Vernet Behringer will be presenting an innovative new machine with an additional X axis and a range of new functional features in the form of the new HD-Xevo.
Features of the new HD-XEVO from Vernet Behringer are significantly higher throughput when machining profiles and scope not only for carbide drilling but also milling. The new CNC-controlled gantry drilling machine comes with three drilling spindles, each extended by an X axis with a 500 mm traversing path. “This X axis enables a girder to be completely finish drilled over a length of 500 mm without the need to reclamp the material for each new drilling operation”, explains CEO Christian Behringer. Apart from increasing the machining speed, this also enables a substantial improvement in terms of precision, as it eliminates any inaccuracy caused by displacement during positioning. If the material is not reclamped, the machine is able to achieve a tolerance of ± 0.1 mm over a length of 500 mm. All axes are positioned by means of servo drives using ball screws. Another benefit of the new system is the facility for milling oblong holes and notched shapes. This saves the need for any downstream work steps. Marking using the “V scoring” method allows characters above and beyond the customary numerical and letter combinations to be inscribed, so facilitating the even more precise positioning of girders on the building site.
Drill and tool changes without loss of time
The gantry machine in connection with an attached mitre bandsaw is generally ideally suited for drilling, thread tapping and scribing girders and profiles. Its stable structure permits precise movements with high feed and working speeds. Linear movements can be travelled at up to 20 metres per minute. Each drilling unit encompasses an automatic tool changer for 6 tools (optionally up to 12 tools). Access to these is regulated by the control system. The Vernet Behringer machine is ideally suited for the use of carbide drills, as plenty of spindle power and speed are provided by the high-grade 15kW drive systems and up to 4000 rpm. The use of new and exclusive milling tools enables even faster production, providing an unrivalled degree of performance. What’s more, the entire machining process comprising combined milling, drilling and sawing can be three-dimensionally depicted and tracked on screen.
The drilling machine has a clamping width of 1,200 millimetres, while the regular drilling diameter is between 8 and 50 mm.
No reworking thanks to a neat cut
The attached HBP510-1208G mitre bandsaw is specifically designed to be lined up with the drilling plant. “A common situation for our customers is that sizing is carried out under contract and calls for a high degree of precision. This means that the efficiency of the mitre bandsaw is paramount”, explains Christian Behringer. With a cutting range of 1200 x 510 mm and bilateral mitres of 30° on the right to 30° on the left, the machine is ideally suited to address the needs of the steel construction industry and the steel trade. Its use ensures precise cuts and a significant increase in plant throughput. The mitre bandsaw’s gantry design is rugged and torsionally resistant. The saw blade guiding components are made of vibration-damping grey cast iron, which impacts positively on tool service life. The inclined saw frame reduces the maximum engagement length of the bandsaw blade, and is specifically designed to ensure the perfect cutting of large girders or rectangular hollow profiles. With its high-powered saw drive packing a full 13.2 kW output and optional servo feed with AFC (Auto-Feed-Control), it is capable of achieving impressively high cutting performance levels. Used in combination with finely graduated cutting force regulation, the feed and cutting speed are adapted in line with length of saw blade engagement in the material. The result: guaranteed high cutting performance due to consistent chip removal and an optimum tool service life. It is also ideal for use with carbide bandsaw blades.
Used in combination with the coordinated shot blasting technology provided by Rösler, production lines are configured which are coordinated precisely to the machining process and the workpieces (sawing, drilling, shot blasting and painting) without any interface problems – all from a single source. The precisely detailed technical coordination which takes place between the three competence partners makes for a radically simplified decision-making process as early as the project engineering phase. Aspects which previously had to be coordinated by the user are now taken care of by Partners 4 Steel, saving time and creating an immediate overview of all the major issues such as cost transparency and production conditions. Renowned global players from the steel industry already place their trust in the expertise of these specialists on a daily basis.
Meticulously planned material handling saves time and costs
Within the framework of Partners 4 Steel, Behringer GmbH also supplies the entire plant technology, including a suitable control system. Depending on the requirement, infeed and discharge roller conveyors, cross conveyors or length measuring devices can be added. For low-manned operation in the steel trade, for instance, a computer-controlled material management system ensures unambiguous order assignment, from incoming material through to the building site. Using roller conveyor systems, the girder is transported into the drilling plant, then subsequently sawn and surface treated. The prefabricated girders then travel out of the plant and into an order picking zone. Ideally, the material hardly needs to be touched by human hand from the time it enters the factory until it is loaded for shipping. This is made possible by the world’s only fully automatic control and transport management system from Behringer GmbH. “Our TMS functions dynamically and takes care of smart navigation of the girders through complex plants. It seeks out the most sensible, fastest or shortest route to the order picking location, depending on the wording of the order”, explains Christian Behringer. The central management system allows staff to pinpoint the exact location of each girder inside the plant. The individual roller conveyor sections can be actuated separately to facilitate the prioritization of certain orders, to compensate for changes in sequence or channel specific girders out of the current process. “No matter how different the girders in terms of their size or shape, the transport system affords maximum flexibility”, he adds.