SMS group offers a large number of solutions available along the complete process chain which do not need large investments, but substantially increase the competitiveness of plants. These technologies, components, automation solutions or services are classified as Performance Modules.
Performance Modules improve the performance of plants and machines regarding one or more of the four categories:
Aluminum plants
Quality
- Highest surface quality, bright and shiny painting of automobile parts
Efficiency
- Reduced operational cost by up to 30 % due to higher precision of coating and consequently lower consumption of coating agents and shorter drying time
Efficiency
- Reduced yield loss due to edge trimming
- Tremendous decrease of energy consumption compared to conventional hot edge spray system
Quality
- Prevention of strip breakages
- Absolute strip flatness improved by 15 I-Units
Quality
- Optimized strip flatness
- Minimized off-flatness lengths
Productivity
- Increased rolling speed
Quality
- Early identification of process deficiencies and unsuitable product Quality
- Stabilizing operational performance
Industrie 4.0
- Increasing transparency and visibility of quality related data across the whole process chain
Productivity
- Maximum production and high production flexibility
- Support for the development of new products
Quality
- Improved product quality
- Tighter geometrical tolerances
- Meeting market requirements
- Optimized production rate
Quality
- High coiling quality
- Stable coiling process
- Reduced coil repair rate
Productivity
- Increase of rolling speeds by 200 m/min. expected
Efficiency
- Increased output of >10 %
Productivity
- Up to 10 percent increased production time
- Extremely low maintenance effort
- Extension of product portfolio (advanced high-strength grades)
Productivity
- Up to 10 percent increased production time
- Extremely low maintenance effort
- Higher flexibility due to combined systems
- Extension of product portfolio (advanced high-strength grades)
Productivity
- Increased product portfolio (tensile strength up to 2,000 MPa)
Efficiency
- Minimized wear
- Low knife costs
Contact
Ralf Ohrndorf
SMS group GmbH
Technical Sales Aluminium
Wiesenstraße 30
57271 Hilchenbach
Germany
Phone
: +49 2733 29 1620
Fax
: +49 2733 29 771620
Dr. Martin Ahrens
SMS group GmbH
Head of Sales Electrics/Automation Aluminium Mills
Ivo-Beucker-Straße 43
40237 Düsseldorf
Germany
Phone
: +49 211 881 5634
Fax
: +49 211 881 775634
Stefan Melster
SMS group GmbH
Technical Sales Processing Lines
Eduard-Schloemann-Str. 4
40237 Düsseldorf
Germany
Phone
: +49 211 881 5217
Fax
: +49 211 881 775217