Efficient and sustainable - digital templates at KLINGER Gysi

The Swiss subsidiary KLINGER Gysi can now digitally measure templates and sample gaskets. This benefits the team, the customers and, last but not least, the environment.

If a new special gasket had to be made, until summer 2020 a KLINGER Gysi employee usually drove to the customer, took the measurements on site and made a cardboard template. This was transferred by hand to the cutting plotter. A comparatively complex, cost-intensive procedure that, especially recently with social distancing rules, was not so easy to perform.

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Optimal material utilization

In addition, Reto Wermelinger, Division Manager of Sealing Technology at KLINGER Gysi, wanted to save material and keep waste as low as possible: “When cutting gaskets, the question of how to recycle the residual material kept coming up. In the case of complicated shapes, it was incredibly difficult to determine the zero point on the cutting table. It was a challenge to get the most out of the material. That is why we were looking for a more efficient solution,” he explains.

With the digitization software “VirtualDigitizing”, which was specially adapted for this area of application together with the Austrian company Softsolution, we have now found the perfect solution. With their help, templates, sample gaskets and 2-D objects can now be digitized in no time at all. The process in the KLINGER Gysi stamping plant in Rheinsulz is now much leaner. The new process guarantees the customer the most precise results and a quick solution.

Save costs, protect the environment

„This process saves time and money. But we can also use our leftover pieces, which have very individual shapes, much more efficiently. The machine now automatically detects where there is enough material to cut out another workpiece,“

says Reto Wermelinger, not only thinking about money, but also the environment. Ultimately, less waste also means less material that has to be disposed of.

The advantage for customers is also obvious: While complicated gasket surfaces previously had to be measured on site and transferred to cardboard samples, which also required several passes, the process is now much more customer-friendly. With the mobile camera, pictures are simply taken on-site, the dimension scan function is activated and the existing gasket surface is precisely reproduced in the KLINGER Gysi Auto-CAD system. This saves time and effort on both sides and leads to even more precise results. Another advantage: The data is stored at KLINGER Gysi and can be called up as soon as another gasket needs to be made.

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