A good while ago , a partnership was formed between several parties to develop the Rombomatic . This sophisticated man of engineering automatize rose film editing . However , the companionship that built this car went bankrupt , and growers who had been using it were left with a trouble . What about religious service and maintenance ? And what happen to the hump - how of the engineering it carry ? Who was operate to help if something went wrong ?
AventecJohn van de Ven , Aventec ’s founder , used to run at Jent Jentjens Machinetechniek , the company that produced the Rombomatic along with its partners . When the business went bust , John , an electrical engineer , started his own ship’s company , Aventec . In the former day , he was principally managing enceinte company ' projects . But , a few years later , the ornamental plant sector drew John back .
Pieter van der Harg and John van de Ven with the Robomatic .
Around that time , Nolina Kwekerijen approached John . They had maintenance , service , and replacement part yield they could no longer avoid . Above all , the cutting simple machine were running on outdated soft- and computer hardware which had to be regenerate to ensure it keep run . Nolina and Leo van der Harg joined forces to tackle this " simple machine rising slope " project . Aventec was task with determine what was needed to ensure the political machine ’s continued future operation .
A marque - new conceptJohn conclude that the car ’s entire control system , including random parts , had to replaced . Everything was outdated and no longer useable should something break down .
That end up being a four - year project resulting in a brand - new concept of doing matter the old fashion . The organisation was complex , loyal , accurate , and , thus , very tricky . " It extend on milliseconds make it very pixilated . You ca n’t programme that mental process in a day . The system being used was great , but it was developed by a whole squad . pass it as a ' one - humankind - regular army ' was no mean exploit , " begin John .
Perfect cutting exit the Robomatic line .
" To ensure that all the machines could keep running , I first rebuilt a single ( robot and vision ) faculty to test the cutting principle . It , naturally , included new , modern control and visual sensation electronics . We rewrote all the ( PLC and visual sense ) software from incision . Once that was done , we rebuild one of a Nolina simple machine ’s four modules to do further examination and make improvements . "
" Once that was all up - and - running , in September 2021 , we rebuilt the whole , four - mental faculty pipeline . Leo then expend two calendar week cutting and replant all the rose skip by hand , and , with the necessary cooking , I managed to convert the entire scheme in those two week . The result : the skeleton still houses the robot , but there are wholly renew controls , ironware , software , and photographic camera , " John excuse .
It was vastly challenging to rebuild and upgrade the entire system , especially using visual sense technology to post the robot to the correct stage with msec and millimeter precision . " That ’s not easy . " It took some time , but the project was a success .
" On fair , the machine turn tail for 100 hour per week throughout the year . Once everything was overhauled and a bug occurred , I was sometimes call out of bed . But all those teething trouble have been solve , and now I can log Z’s soundly again . More importantly , the system is ladder at the same level ; it might even be better . We now know its accurate details , so it ’s now just a matter of copying and pasting in the next projects , " John reason out .
The grower has his say"We installed the machine in 2002 . At the time , we were delighted with it , and with today ’s market , we ’ve only become felicitous . So it was n’t a question of whether we wanted to continue using it ; there was no doubt about that , " says Pieter van der Harg .
Yet the grower quickly became mindful of the system ’s offspring . First , they escape out of spare part , then a motherboard fail , which they shin to replace . That signify there was a high hazard of the system shutting down if anything let out - that peril needed to be prevented .
" But , reconstruct the entire system was also very risky . still , your company must proceed , so we had short pick . But , we ’re thrilled we did ; the risk has been averted , and the labor is a success . Plus , we now have a wholly renewed system , " Pieter says .
Nolina collaborationFor this project , Leo partner with fellow greenhouse Nolina Kwekerijen , and together , they pulled off quite an accomplishment because this was not , by any way , a inexpensive undertaking .
" It ’s important to explain this collaboration with Nolina . We ’re competitors of variety , but we had a common goal : to suspire new life into the " become flat " Rombomatic cutting political machine . We shared all the start - up cost , and they can employ the remaining spare parts we had while they ’re still running on the erstwhile scheme . It ’s a winnings - win . "
Quality guaranteeIn these times of labor shortages , this machine is a godsend . " It saves us about six people every 60 minutes . Times that by an middling 100 - hour week and do the math . A car performs just as well at the end of the day as at the beginning ; it never gets grim , is always on time , and does n’t involve a holiday , " adds Pieter .
" Plus , this line needs only two people to operate four robots which produce up to 5,200 carving per hour . We can , thus , bring our quality to a very high-pitched , constant level . You could clearly see the dispute in the two weeks we did everything manually . The human broker is go , and every cutting is done precisely the same , down to the millimetre , " he conclude .
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For more entropy : Leo van der Harg B.V.6 Vlaardingerhilseweg3237 LX , Vierpolders , NLTel : +31 ( 0 ) 181 479 777Email:[email protected]Website : www.kordana.nl
Aventec B.V.5 Grolderseweg5384 TM , Heesch , NLTel : +31 ( 0 ) 614 626 150Email:[email protected]Website : www.aventec.nl
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