CTI handling devices are employed to

Move heavy loads quickly and accurately through all axis Feed and remove materials, products to and from machines, ovens, furnaces, presses Schmitz Cargobull AG [2005] The system consists of 1 chain conveyor, 1 lifters, 1 diagnostic station, 1 maintenance station and 10 carriers. The automatic assembly line starts in the preassembling department, where the different trailer chassis are lifted up to the chain conveyor at level 2. The buffer function of the chain conveyor synchronizes the cycle of the assembly line. The preassembled chassis is taken up by a passing carrier and via a lifter transported to the different assembly areas. The working height, as the rate of speed, is adjusted automatically to the different working areas. At the end of the assembly line an additional lifter takes up the empty carrier to level 2 where before starting a new cycle, a complete automatic function control is executed in the diagnostic station. Essential system data: 1 chain conveyor, 3 lifters, 1 diagnostic station, 1 traversing carriage and 10 carriers (capacity 6000 kg, lifting height ca. 2400 mm). The length of a two-level bi-rail system, CTI Patented track, comes to 400 m. Management System and control: the generation and coordination of the process flow is executed by a master PLC which transfers the fully adjustable parameters to the local carrier PLC at the beginning of a cycle. The design of the carriers and the whole system was executed under the rule, that work below suspended load is permitted.

CTI offers the following crane systems

Overhead cranes Traveling cranes Automatic cranes Process cranes Interlocking systems Benteler [2005] The system consists of 2 double girder cranes, 1 handling station and 5 crossbeams. Benteler Steel/Tube Ltd. carries out the pickle of tubes in the Paderborn/Germany located plant. To update the standard of used equipment and safe the work quality in future, CTI delivered in 2005 a semi-automatic system for pickle tube bundles. The cranes have to transfer the tube bundles to the handling station. The automatic hook mounted crossbeam pick up the bundles by hand of the operator. The operator works with the crane up to a special position compared to the handling station. This position is checked by limit switches. Now the automatic process can start. The two lift carriers into transfer point and advance the boom to the pick up lug on the beam. The crane hoist moves and lays down the beam. The automatic hooks decouple. The crane can go away and the handling station starts the pickling program. Hand over back to the crane runs in reverse order.

CTI offers the following floor conveying systems

Roller conveyors, heavy and duty conveyors, skid conveyors Chain conveyors, special designed chain conveyors Lifts Closed chain conveyors Belt conveyors Shuttle systems The system consists of approx. 160 m of new patented track and corresponding powerbars, 7 switches and a monorail control station. In 2004, CTI SYSTEMS realized an extension of an existing CTI monorail system, operational already for about 30 years at Corus’ Scunthorpe (UK) facility, in order to allow for direct automatic connection to the newly installed automated CTI warehouse and in order to adapt to various other modifications executed at the same time by Corus. The approximately 100 C-hook conveyors traveling on the monorail are transporting steel rod coils with a weight of up to 2.2 t, a diameter of up to 1,3 m and a length of up to 1.7 m. They pick up the coils individually at the wire rod mill and via the large monorail system, including some 40+ switches, they pass along compactors, cooling tracks, weighing stations, labeling stations, ... directly to the input area of the new automated warehouse. Here the coils arrive with a temperature of still up to 400°C and at a rate of 106 coils/h. Prior to being unloaded onto conveyors leading into the warehouse, a check of each individual coil is made by the new CTI monorail control station, realized at the same time than the connection to the warehouse, in order to exclude any entry of an unsuitable coil into the warehouse.

Docking systems

The system consists of four (4) dock modules: 2 taildocks, left right one side equipped with the hoist, 2 windocks left right, 2 landing gear docks left right, 2 hydraulic docks left right. The dock can be used on the whole A320 family (A318 to the A 321). Equipped with numerous features the A320 dock modules successfully commissioned at Air France Paris in March 2007 allow aircraft access for heavy maintenance. The entire tail and wing sections are covered in most comfortable and ergonomic way for the entire A320 aircraft series (from the A318 to the A321). The passway and workplatforms at tail dock allow not only heavy duty application and high platform loads, but a

Monorail Systems

The system consists of approx. 160 m of new Tarca track and corresponding powerbars, 7 switches and a monorail control station. In 2004, CTI SYSTEMS realized an extension of an existing CTI monorail system, operational already for about 30 years at Corus’ Scunthorpe (UK) facility, in order to allow for direct automatic connection to the newly installed automated CTI warehouse and in order to adapt to various other modifications executed at the same time by Corus. The approximately 100 C-hook conveyors traveling on the monorail are transporting steel rod coils with a weight of up to 2.2 t, a diameter of up to 1.3 m and a length of up to 1.7 m. They pick up the coils individually at the wire rod mill and via the large monorail system, including some 40+ switches, they pass along compactors, cooling tracks, weighing stations, labeling stations, ... directly to the input area of the new automated warehouse. Here the coils arrive with a temperature of still up to 400°C and at a rate of 106 coils/h. Prior to being unloaded onto conveyors leading into the warehouse, a check of each individual coil is made by the new CTI monorail control station, realized at the same time than the connection to the warehouse, in order to exclude any entry of an unsuitable coil into the warehouse.

Teleplatforms

The system consists of 16 painting platforms and 20 double girder under-slung cranes. The painting facilities in Hamburg for the new A380 include a CTI teleplatform system. The system consists of 4 teleplatforms with a lift height of 23.5 meters to access the fin, 12 teleplatforms with a lift height of 11.5 meters to access the upper surface of fuselage and wings and 20 double girder under-slung cranes which are installed in two identical halls. The system additionally includes cross-over systems which allow the transfer of the fuselage teleplatforms between the fuselage and wing cranes. The max load per teleplatform is 4 people plus additional load of 280kg. The proven square mast system could be optimized in terms of proper weight and stiffness. The safety of the operator is guaranteed with a selection of systems which include among others fall protection systems, evacuation system and respiratory air treatment on platform level. CTI Systems S.A. included as first manufacturer worldwide the newly developed relative motion control system in reference to the actual platform position. The platform motion direction follows the pre-selected joystick direction from the operator. This new system reduces due to its simple use the risk of operating errors.