Habau quickens the pace on well-traveled paths

Bucket conveyer system with enhanced logi(sti)c

Fig. 1 The complexity of the bucket conveyer system: ready-mixed concrete batches must be navigated through several halls on a track section simultaneously traversed by up to four transport bucket without colliding – without longer waiting times.

Fig. 2 Collisions are avoided by diverting the buckets that are in the way via a number of turntables and shunting switches, which, in addition, direct these buckets on their course to the various halls.

Fig. 3 Together with the new control system, a detailed visualization was implemented in the precast plant. Now the operators can inform themselves at a glance where and what needs to be repaired.

Fig. 4 The incremental sensors on-board every bucket ensure the exact positioning of the individual transport containers at the individual transport.

Fig. 5 A Siemens CPU 317-2 PN/DP, as master, directs the Austrian bucket conveyer system behind the scenes. The CPU communicated with the slaves in the buckets via ET200M modules.

Fig. 6 At a daily production output of up to 340 m³ concrete, this precast plant is an important part of the Habau group of companies.

Long years of collaboration forge strong bonds. Over the past ten years, Baumgartner Automation successfully administered “first aid” many times at the precast plant operated by the company Habau in Perg, Austria. Baumgartner, with headquarters in Gaspoltshofen, Austria, not only optimized the existing mixing technology – including a special batching plant – but also modernized the entire factory by installing a new control system for the bucket conveyer system, which had gotten on in years.

The new Internorm glass production hall in Traun, a row house estate, the gas dehydration plant of OMV in Reyersdorf and the high-bay warehouse of the plastics manufacturer Borealis in Linz – all located in Austria – have one thing in common: all of these structures were erected with concrete mixes from the precast plant of Habau Hoch- und Tiefbaugesellschaft m.b.H. in the Upper Austrian town of Perg.

With a daily production output of up to 340 m³ concrete, the precast plant in Perg is an important mosaic stone within the Habau group of companies that, in 2009, will generate a turnover of...