Among the customers of Kautenburger GmbH, Germany, is Refractarios Kelsen S.A. (Spain), a producer of refractory components and solutions that include fire clay bricks, fireproof bricks used for lining furnaces.
In the production process, these bricks are stacked onto wagons. Stacking the bricks onto the wagons robotically is not a great challenge in terms of automation. However, during the processing and transport the bricks will change their shape, and their positions may shift as well. This lack of milimetric presicion lead to downtimes and waste. Using Roboception’s rc_visard 160m, the rc_randomdot pattern projector and the rc_reason BoxPick module, Kautenburger has implemented a solution that eradicated these problems.