At the beginning of June, Porsche and Schuler started the operation of a fully-connected press shop in Halle (Saale), Germany. Apart from a servo press line with an output of up to 20 strokes per minute, the smart press shop features a state-of-the-art blanking line: a Schuler Laser Blanking Line 2.18 equipped with two cutting heads for processing strip material with a width of up to 1880 mm.

Blanking lines with lasers do not require expensive and heavy blanking dies, which is why they are particularly suitable for the production of new parts or small batch sizes with frequent product changes. The continuously moving coil material is processed into blanks at high cutting speeds. Thanks to tooling-free scrap separation, the result is high output rates. Furthermore, the system ensures gentle transportation of sensitive materials such as aluminium.

According to Schuler, the Laser Blanking Line 2.18 is the ideal solution for the smart press shop in Halle, which focuses on the production of aluminium outer skin parts in small batch sizes. By recording various measured values of the system, as well as the coil material (by smart marking of the blank), the line that supplies the blanks for the servo press line forms the point of departure for a track and trace system.

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