End-to-end engineering for industrial systems

An agricultural machinery manufacturer wanted to bring powder coating capacity in-house. The difficulty was in the parts: trailer chassis, plough bodies, body side panels, and alongside them dozens of smaller brackets and fittings. Dimensions and geometries had nothing in common, and no single part family could serve as the basis for the line. The conventional answer is a fixed, long booth served by a continuously moving conveyor. But with this part mix a fixed booth has to be sized for the largest part: the booth grows, the volume to be heated and ventilated grows with it, and the required floor area and investment rise out of proportion. Coating a small bracket then means ventilating that same volume. In a medium-volume plant producing varied parts, this is a line that consumes excess energy from the day it is commissioned.