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difficult-to-cut alloys such as aerospace, nuclear,
and oil and gas, as well as high volume production
environments where cutting is typically two to three
times faster than when using conventional bimetal
bandsaws.
Additionally, recent expansion of bandsawing
products to include the KASTOmiwin twin column,
double mitring model in semi-automatic and
automatic versions, plus the KASTOmicut pivot-bow
mitre cutting saw for the workshop, is evidence of the
company’s intention to strengthen its presence in the
construction industry with a more comprehensive,
single-source offering.
Another area of ongoing concentration in the R&D
department in Germany is the manufacturer’s
Industry 4.0 programme for digitalisation and
networking centred on proprietary integrated control
systems and interfaces. With KASTOlogic, for
example, the company offers a modular warehouse
management system tailored to the storage of long
goods and sheet metal. The system transparently
maps all the processes between goods receipt and
product dispatch, ensuring efficient control over
material flow.
Customised interfaces range from SAP, Infor and
Microsoft Dynamics products to customer-specific
software solutions, allowing easy connection
to a higher-level host system. Even manually-
operated warehouses can be managed through
the KASTOmobile app, while the latter also allows
monitoring of sawing machines to access data on cut
length, target number and actual quantity, feed rate
and cutting speed.
Kasto also has solutions to integrate and automate
production processes upstream and downstream of
the sawing process – the KASTOsort robot. Industrial
robots can not only sort and stack sawn parts but
can also perform other tasks such as deburring,
chamfering, centring, threading, marking and
printing.
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Mr Wagner concluded, “With all this technology
and back-up, our customers can make their
manufacturing processes more flexible and efficient
as well as benefit from optimal utilisation of
machines, short non-productive times, reduced
maintenance costs, lower production costs and other
advantages. The quality of manufactured goods is
higher than ever before and operating errors are
virtually eliminated. “The end of political turmoil in
Westminster is nigh, we all hope, and whichever side
of Brexit you are on we should soon have certainty.
Our customers and indeed all manufacturers should
not forget that there is significant demand, both
at home and especially abroad, that will lead to
substantial opportunities for sales and exports. Let’s
make 2020 a year of consolidation and of continuing
to Make it in Britain.”
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