ZOLLER | MAGAZINE 2018 EDITION

Automotive, mechanical engineering, medical technology, computer industry, food technology... companies in these and more than 30 other industries have one thing in com- mon – they all use H.P. Kaysser GmbH + Co. KG as a pro- vider of sheet metal components. H.P. Kaysser’s contracts are just as diverse as its customers. The company’s pro- duction processes have to be versatile enough to match a variety of needs, meaning machines frequently need to be re-fitted. With a central set-up location combined with efficient tool management, the company has a handle on set-up times and has an accurate overview of tools. It All Starts With Warehouse and Set-Up Time Optimization Over 4,000 complete tools and an equal amount of single components are in use at H.P. Kaysser – which is a signifi- cant cost factor. To work more efficiently and lower tool costs, the company launched a project to optimize tool storage and management in 2015. “In the past, employees frequently had their own storage areas at specific ma- chines. It was almost impossible to know where a certain tool was,” explains Peter Pfleiderer, Project Manager of Tool Management at H.P. Kaysser. “Machine set-up times, especially, were too high. That’s why we decided to estab- lish a central set-up station with two Kardex shuttles, while optimizing tool management at the same time.” The company chose to partner with ZOLLER – they were al- ready aware of the company from joint projects in the past, and had been operating TMS Tool Management Solu- tions on a ZOLLER »venturion« presetter since late 2015. The diversity and modular design of TMS Tool Management Solutions by ZOLLER, and the fact that they could receive tool presetting and management from a single source, were key factors behind the decision. GOAL 1: SMART PATHWAYS FOR BETTER FLEXIBILITY AND EFFICIENCY H.P. KAYSSER GMBH + CO. KG: TOOL DATA TRANSPARENCY AND IMPROVED SETUP TIMES COVER STORY 28 Z.magazine 2018