B28B15/007

System and method for producing tubular concrete products
10189179 · 2019-01-29 ·

A method and system for producing tubular concrete products in a casting method using upright casting molds. The system includes a fabrication zone with a plurality of fully automated fabrication stations and a mold conveyor, the first zone having: a first demolding station for removing an outer mold from a casting mold positioned at the first demolding station, a second demolding station for removing a cured tubular concrete product form a mold core positioned at the second demolding station, a mold core cleaning station for cleaning a mold core positioned at the mold core cleaning station, an outer mold cleaning station for cleaning an outer mold positioned at the outer mold cleaning station, a mold assembly station for assembling a casting mold from an outer mold and a mold core, and at least one filling station for filling an assembled casting mold with concrete.

LINE AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF DECORATED CERAMIC PRODUCTS
20180178407 · 2018-06-28 ·

A line for the continuous cycle production of decorated ceramic products includes a feeding machine, a pressing machine and a colouring machine. Further, the line includes a supervision system that includes a line server and, for each machine: (i) a local control panel, connected to the corresponding machine and configured to generate configuration data representing a machine setup; and (ii) a print server, connected to a corresponding local control panel to receive the configuration data of the corresponding machine and process it to generate a machine configuration document representing the machine configuration data formatted according to a predetermined protocol. The line server can be connected to all of the print servers of the line to receive the configuration documents of the machines of the line, and be configured to generate a configuration document of the line, representing the setup of the line in its entirety.