Tool storage and loading systems
for your machine series

Efficient tool management for modern production machines:

Modern production machines offer a wide range of options, but integrated solutions can no longer cope with the increasing number of tools required. A future-proof option is therefore a tool storage system with sufficient reserves, which is particularly important for flexibility in automated, unmanned shifts.

Pallet automation often opens up completely new production concepts, but also requires extended tooling. Our WT terminals have proven themselves not only in retrofitting, but also in series production. You can rely on our solutions to always have the tools you need directly at your machine.

Always the required tools at the machine

Get your machine up to speed

the advantages of TOOL terminals

  • Space-saving and efficient – High tool density with up to 552 tools on just 3.5 m², saves valuable space in production.
  • Versatile and customizable – Generalist for all common tool holders, with three basic architectures for flexible configurations.
  • Open and economical – Open storage with interfaces to tool management, tool presetting and production ensures a short amortization period.
  • Increases productivity – Reduces downtimes due to sister tools, increases machine productivity.
  • Customized and user-friendly – Modular design allows almost unlimited variants, simplifies the implementation of special requests without great effort.
  • Powerful and integration-friendly – series-optimized design and modular structure for simple service & support, enables easy integration into OEM machines, both across variants and series.

Individual branding Customized terminals according to OEM specifications

Our terminals are designed exactly according to the customer’s specifications so that they fit seamlessly into the design of the OEM machine. The technical features are based on proven automation solutions for machinists and ensure a sophisticated system with high performance that can be easily integrated into the OEM machine.

Our automation solution is not only cross-variant and cross-series, but also makes it easy to provide or integrate the terminals into the design of the machine housing. Thanks to their modular design, our terminals offer almost unlimited variants, making it possible to implement individual requirements and special requests from end customers with little effort.

The terminals can be easily integrated into different automation environments, be it tool ID systems, control systems or various PLC interfaces and generations. The series-optimized design and modular structure not only facilitate service and support, but also spare parts management for smooth integration and maintenance.

Possible applications for your TOOL terminal

As an additional magazine directly on the machine tool

As an additional magazine on the machine, the TERMINAL exchanges tools with the machine’s internal magazine. There are three options for controlling the TERMINAL.

  1. Without its own control system:
    The machine control system controls the TERMINAL.
  2. With sequence control and IO link interface:
    The machine control takes over the tool management.
    The terminal’s sequence control coordinates the handling in the terminal and the transfer of tools to the machine’s magazine.
  3. With sequence control, separate management and IO interface:
    Sequence control and tool management in the TERMINAL are handled by the TERMINAL control system.
    The TERMINAL control system also transmits control signals and tool data to the machine control system via an interface.
    Integration of data from the tool presetting is also possible

Three architectures for your machine series

TOOL-S: The economical entry

The round shelving units with the smallest footprint with 3 to 7 levels

It goes round and round with your tools. The TOOL-S is a round shelf storage system with 3 to 7 shelf levels. Pack up to 350 tools on a small footprint. This gives you many times the capacity that machine-related magazines generally offer. TOOL-S can be operated on almost all machines, so that every production facility can implement automated tool handling or the expansion of machine-related magazines.

You can configure your automated tool storage system precisely using the modular TOOL-S system. We will be happy to advise you personally.

 

TOOL-S

  • S for shelf: The compact shelving system for up to 350 tools, which can be combined with almost all machines.

Your contact
to automation solutions for OEMs

Sebastian Auth

Dipl.-Ing. (FH)
Deputy Chairman Sales Manager

Automation products

+49 (0) 151 146 177 39

+49 (0) 6659 82-67

s.auth@wassermann-technologie.de