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Welcome to FLS
Movement in warehouse and production

Engineering Office for material handling

 

Modern logistic processes
for your business

Because movement makes the difference.

 

 

Welcome to FLS
 

Factory planning

FLS Michael Taddiken is an engineering office for factory planning.
Our focus is on planning of logistic processes in warehouse and production.  
Projecting manufacturing processes and conceptual designing of automation solutions is our business as well.

Technical documentation

Beside the factory planning technical documentation is another core competence of FLS.
The compiling of risk assessments according to the EU machinery directive, safety concepts conforming to European standards for machines and systems, conformity expertise and consulting are the topics.

We put things in motion.

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What you‘ll get.

 

Factory planning – modern logistic

Panta rhei – material in flow
Essentially is the movement – standing material costs production area, time and money.
Too much warehouse stock causes standing material, oversupplied assembly stations also, for working stations are nothing else than a storage places in production.
FLS analyses your material flow and potentials. 
Modern is if anything flows.

Production logistics
Kanban or card chasing?
 

Modern intralogistics concepts don‘t only consider transportation ways, volumes and destinations – essentially for floating processes are the triggers. Only with the information flow the material flow becomes logistics.
For lean concepts the process steps has to build on one another in order to avoid too high or too low stocks.
A process is just as good as the appliances it is implemented with. Therefor for a modern process requires modern means of transportation.
Lean logistics, fork lift truck reduced factory? With a milkrun concept it will work.
 

Warehouse logistics
Is less more? The best warehouse is no warehouse?

With an optimal implemented pull production this is theoretically possible.
But it doesn’t have worked anytime
Warehouses have to balance the unplanned events and the planned time spreads in production as well as in the supply and delivery chain.
This is valid even more if the warehouse is the main value adding process like in trading or distributing companies.
If in front of, in between or behind the production – the warehouse has to provide the required material reliable.
Not more, but in no case less!

Manufacturing concepts
Everything handicraft?
 

Not every workstation can be automated but well planned processes on the place and between the stations will increase output and quality.
With the right preconditions automations contain sufficient potentials of economisation and quality will get reproducible.
But if supply and removal processes are not satisfactory the aims will not be accomplished.
With this also applies: logistic isn’t everything but without logistic everything is nothing.

Technical documentation

From one day to the next
Nothing‘s as old as the directive from yesterday

The transition fom machinery directive to machinery regulation is a key date regulation: with „making available on the market“ until January, 19th, 2027 the machinery directive must be applied and EG- declarations of conformity has to be issued, from January, 20th, 2027 only the machinery regulation is valid; EU- declarations of conformity must be issued.
With this suppliers might get in trouble when unplanned deadline shiftings occur.

 

Conformity
Directly regarding to directive – everything regulated after regulation

Any producer or distributor of machines have to ensure the conformity of his products with the current European machinery directive respective with the upcoming machinery regulation when placing it on the market within the European economic area.
Precondition for that is a risk assessment. 
 
FLS prepares this risk assessment for
 
  • new machines and systems
  • modification of systems
  • essentially modificated machines
  • assembies of machines
  • existing installations (susequently assessment)
  • integrated manufacturing systems

 

What´s getting
Everything stays different
 

The first and most obvious diffrence is the naming. As a regulation the new legal act is valid directly in the whole economic area without launching national laws.
News are found in the scope of application and by technologies (f.E.: „self changing machines – AI“) as well in the area of software.
Most requirements of safety stay the same, new are regulations for compromising of plc‘s, as well from outside and for the execution of documentation. So there are now specifications the digital supply of the manual.
Still vague is the application of harmonised standards. The harmonisation still regards to the machinery directive.

Operators instructions
Instructed to follow instructions

In pratice manuals and other documents, in the machinery directive there is no regulation for that. In the machinery regulation there are requirements worded, but not necessarly for the better.
Assembly manuals are declarations of conformity and/or incoparation are allowed as digital version now.

Documentation
Collected works

Beside the documents required by the machine directive nd upcoming by the machinery regulation , further documents for operation or maintenance may be neccessary or be demanded by customer.
In every case, an uniform appearance of the documentation is a business card.

Safety
Only safe is safe

The results of the risk minimising measures for machines and related products.
If separating protective devices, safety related parts of control systems or safety advices, relevant is the execution conforming to European standards.
FLS supports you with design and/or choosing of components or systems:
dimensions and distances of safety fences
access systems for large machines
selection of safety related means of the control (light barriers with muting or blanking function, scanners, door switches)
specifying of performance levels
Arrangement and selection of ermergency stop devices
compiling of safety layouts

References

A selection of our customers.

Getting curious?

We are looking forward to your requirement.

 

FLS Michael Taddiken
Im Schünmoor 2
27211 Bassum

+49 (0)4241 9210444
info(at)fls-planung.de

 

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