EANS-News: Rosenbauer International AG
Rosenbauer opens the fire industry's
most modern firefighting vehicle plant (with photo)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corporate news transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer/originator is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plant Openings - Production in line with the industrial standards used in the automotive industry - Sequenced AT and PANTHER assembly lines - Major investment of around EUR 12 million secures the course for the future Following a 12-month conversion and adaptation phase, today Rosenbauer officially opens the fire industry's most modern vehicle plant. The central element in the Plant II Leonding is formed by two new, synchronized production lines for PANTHER ARFFs and AT municipal fire trucks. Assembly takes place using complete process synchronization and in line with the industrial standards employed in the automotive and mechanical engineering sectors. Production at the Plant II Leonding commenced successfully in April and the first vehicles to come off the new production lines were completed only a few days after start-up. The initial PANTHER from Plant II Leonding was supplied to Sibu Airport in Malaysia, while the first AT was supplied to the Thüngen Fire Service in Germany. The new facility is designed for the annual production of around 150 PANTHER ARFFs and 250 AT municipal fire trucks in one-shift operation, although this capacity can be raised using shift models. 2013 and 2104 have seen investments of over EUR12 million in the new plant, which is future with employ around 350 people. The new premises are situated only 3 km away from Rosenbauer Group headquarters and have an area of approximately 52,000 m² with some 15,000 m² of hall space and roughly 5,000 m² of office accommodation. The Plant II Leonding provides an increase of around 60 per cent in the production floor space available at the Leonding location. And as Dr. Dieter Siegel, the Rosenbauer International AG Chairman, explains:" We have thus obtained the room that we urgently required. In addition we have been able to completely reshape our production. Intensive competition demands technical solutions that facilitate the faster manufacture of top quality fire service vehicles. With this extremely modern plant, we have already set the stage for a continuation of our business success in the hotly contested, international fire industry market." Sequenced line production in spite of small batches and vehicle diversity Assembly on both the main lines takes place at defined stations and in accordance with an established sequence. The vehicles and superstructures are moved automatically from one station to the next on rails and signals indicate the start of the next cycle. Assembly takes place in line with the flow principle, material supply according to the Kanban and pull principles. In addition, the working sequences have been systematically oriented towards the value flow concept and all the working processes and interfaces revised. Accordingly, the employees have also been provided with the necessary specialist, procedural and methodological competences. PANTHER assembly consists of six stations for the 6x6 and 4x4 models and following a short run-up phase is now completed in a two-day rhythm. The pre-prepared chassis is carried on a transport wagon from one assembly station to the next. Adjacent to the main line is a 4-station, cabin line and two separate short assembly lines, each with three stations for special types and PANTHERs requiring specific equipment, two assembly workstations for 8x8 trucks and three finishing work stations. In June, the production of chassis for the 6x6 and 4x4 models also commenced in Plant II on a sequenced line. The assembly of AT municipal fire trucks takes place in a one-day sequence via thirteen workstations, whereby as opposed to the PANTHER line, only the superstructure without the chassis is transported. The marriage between the superstructure and the chassis takes place in the final working cycle and then the vehicles receive their payload and are started up at various workstations. Pictures with Announcement: ---------------------------------------------- http://resources.euroadhoc.com/us/yNhnqsgF http://resources.euroadhoc.com/us/0gsa0Qky Further inquiry note: Rosenbauer International AG Mag. Gerda Königstorfer Tel.: 0732/6794-568 gerda.koenigstorfer@rosenbauer.com end of announcement euro adhoc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pictures with Announcement: ---------------------------------------------- http://resources.euroadhoc.com/us/yNhnqsgF ; http://resources.euroadhoc.com/us/0gsa0Qky ; company: Rosenbauer International AG Paschingerstrasse 90 A-4060 Leonding phone: +43(0)732 6794 568 FAX: +43(0)732 6794 89 mail: ir@rosenbauer.com WWW: www.rosenbauer.com sector: Machine Manufacturing ISIN: AT0000922554 indexes: WBI, ATX Prime stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, Stuttgart, official market: Wien language: English
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