VISION‑U / ‑L

For almost six deca­des now, Hob­by- Wohn­wa­gen­werk has been pas­sio­na­te­ly dedi­ca­ted to buil­ding motor­ho­mes. With working are­as of 8,000 mm x 2,500 mm and an auto­ma­tic beam table, three VISION-III-TT‑L sys­tems pro­du­ce a wide varie­ty of com­pon­ents there.

What was once con­side­red impos­si­ble or dif­fi­cult, such as desig­ning futu­ristic cur­ves on lar­ge bal­co­nies, has beco­me rou­ti­ne now thanks to modern CNC tech­no­lo­gy. Some­ti­mes it only takes a few days from con­cept to rea­li­sa­ti­on, befo­re, for exam­p­le, a tail­or-made con­cre­te stair­ca­se is rea­dy for delivery.

The Rei­chen­ba­cher VISION-III-TT 5‑axis sys­tem, the series desi­gna­ti­on of which in its­elf pro­mi­ses some­thing extra­or­di­na­ry, was instal­led in Lang­shyt­tan in cen­tral Swe­den at the end of 2023. Equip­ped with a steel beam table with woo­den sup­ports and con­vey­or, the sys­tem fea­tures an impres­si­ve working area of 20,000 mm x 3,100 mm. This enables the pro­ces­sing of very lar­ge CLT panels for house walls, cei­ling and roof ele­ments.

Pio­nee­ring a field is one thing, but achie­ving this in a tech­ni­cal­ly and eco­no­mic­al­ly sen­si­ble way is ano­ther. Con­se­quent­ly the acqui­si­ti­on of a new 5‑axis CNC sys­tem has been an invest­ment in the future. The goal is to enable the tra­di­tio­nal com­pa­ny to main­tain its lea­ding role as a manu­fac­tu­rer of door pre-pro­ducts and sup­pli­er of sys­tem solu­ti­ons for func­tion­al doors for inte­ri­or and exte­ri­or use.

They had the theo­re­ti­cal know­ledge and a bril­li­ant idea to boot: Five stu­dents from the School of Engi­nee­ring and Design at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Munich foun­ded the TUfast e.V. asso­cia­ti­on in 2002 to deve­lop racing cars for For­mu­la Stu­dent in prac­ti­ce. Rei­chen­ba­cher sup­ports this pro­ject with know-how and human capital.

The com­ple­xi­ty of geo­me­tri­cal­ly deman­ding struc­tures in com­bi­na­ti­on with fair-faced con­cre­te is a remar­kab­le chall­enge. The impres­si­ve pago­da in the ent­rance area of the new rhi­no house at Ber­lin Zoo is an exam­p­le for such a feat, as is a school buil­ding in Bava­ria, whe­re pret­ty much ever­y­thing is round and the­re is hard­ly a straight wall to be found.

Dri­ven by the pas­si­on to crea­te incom­pa­ra­ble one-offs, Diehl has beco­me a sym­bol for exclu­si­ve sta­ir con­s­truc­tions. It can be an exci­ting chall­enge when one CNC machi­ne is to be repla­ced by ano­ther. Howe­ver, the elec­tri­cal power of the new one could have cau­sed parts of Frank­furt to go dark for a short time.

With curio­si­ty and ambi­ti­on, the com­pa­ny neu­form-Türen­werk from Erd­mann­hau­sen near Lud­wigs­burg is con­stant­ly explo­ring trends, ques­tio­ning the fami­li­ar, taking up new chal­lenges and desig­ning trend-set­ting solu­ti­ons. As the pro­duct port­fo­lio had beco­me more and more cus­to­mer-spe­ci­fic with batch sizes start­ing from 1, the com­pa­ny had to repo­si­ti­on itself.

The purcha­se of a com­plex CNC sys­tem is also a leap in at the deep end – at least from the point of view of a small joi­n­ery busi­ness. Kurt Kut­sch­mann (Area Sales Mana­ger Rei­chen­ba­cher Hamu­el), who had the requi­re­ments of the Swiss spe­cia­lists for tri­cky woo­den form parts cle­ar­ly in mind, was well awa­re of this.

F. LIST GMBH have gai­ned them­sel­ves a repu­ta­ti­on as a sup­pli­er of modern inte­ri­ors for yachts and air­crafts. Their clear objec­ti­ve is to meet the gre­at chal­lenges faced in the high­ly sen­si­ti­ve air­craft indus­try, as the demands for utmost pre­cis­i­on are many times hig­her the­re than in other industries.

Incre­asing urba­ni­sa­ti­on ever­y­whe­re around the glo­be asks for ever more effi­ci­ent and low-emis­si­on sys­tems in public trans­port and sta­tio­na­ry indus­tri­al plants. Airex Com­po­si­te Struc­tures knew at an ear­ly stage that cle­ver light­weight con­s­truc­tion is a pre­con­di­ti­on for the effi­ci­ent move­ment of weight, for effort­less acce­le­ra­ti­on and for excel­lent mecha­ni­cal performance.

„If we build two iden­ti­cal stair­ca­ses it is only becau­se we need two of a kind in the same buil­ding“. Apart from spa­cious sto­rage are­as, their shop flo­or is abo­ve all cha­rac­te­ri­sed by tech­ni­cal­ly sophisti­ca­ted machi­nery. The­re you find two 5‑axes machi­ning cen­tres, each more than six met­res in length, of VISION type with gan­try dri­ve, which have been sup­pli­ed by the machi­ne buil­der Reichenbacher.

On a new cut­ting and pro­ces­sing cen­ter for lar­ge-for­mat woo­den com­pon­ents, the Bal­te­schwi­ler com­pa­ny cuts, mills, drills, almost and sands com­plex panel and con­s­truc­tion com­pon­ents up to 13.5 m long, 3.5 m wide and 250 mm thick ful­ly auto­ma­ti­cal­ly. Sta­te-of-the-art CNC and dri­ve tech­no­lo­gy with inte­gra­ted safe­ty is used.

The new cut­ting and pro­ces­sing cen­ter from Bal­te­schwi­ler AG opens up new opti­ons for joi­ne­ries, car­pen­try com­pa­nies and tim­ber con­s­truc­tors, but also for steel fabri­ca­tors and gene­ral con­trac­tors. Lar­ge panels can be sup­pli­ed for a wide ran­ge of appli­ca­ti­ons – quick­ly and cost-effectively.

Hob­by-Wohn­wa­gen­werk from Fock­bek in the Rends­burg-Eckern­för­de dis­trict has been buil­ding cara­vans and motor­ho­mes for almost six deca­des. Some time ago, the com­pa­ny was loo­king for a repla­ce­ment for the 30-year-old machi­nes used to finish the outer bodies. The com­pa­ny found what it was loo­king for in the spe­cial sys­tems manu­fac­tu­rer Rei­chen­ba­cher Hamu­el, which sup­pli­ed sta­te-of-the-art CNC technology.

Woo­den win­dows and doors are the busi­ness of Wil­helm GmbH in Wees. In 2009, they purcha­sed a new CNC pro­ces­sing cen­ter. Initi­al­ly only for stair­ca­se pro­duc­tion, but in order to achie­ve bet­ter capa­ci­ty uti­liza­ti­on, front door pro­duc­tion was also trans­fer­red to this machi­ne. To this end, “NC-Hops” was also expan­ded to include a cor­re­spon­ding frie­ze con­s­truc­tion module.

The core com­pe­tence of Bal­te­schwi­ler AG lies in the pro­duc­tion of wall and cei­ling paneling as well as exte­ri­or faca­des. Around 1 mil­li­on squa­re meters of wood panell­ing are pro­du­ced annu­al­ly. With the Rei­chen­bach CNC machi­ning cen­ter, orders can also be com­ple­ted at short notice.

To exceed cus­to­mer expec­ta­ti­ons, Prüm-Türen­werk GmbH reli­es on Total Qua­li­ty Manage­ment – con­sis­t­ent­ly. So it comes as no sur­pri­se that the latest tech­no­lo­gy is used in the manu­fac­tu­ring pro­cess. The remar­kab­le qua­li­ty can be reco­gni­zed at first glan­ce, and the doors have recent­ly been pro­du­ced on a Rei­chen­ba­cher sys­tem that is uni­que in terms of com­ple­xi­ty and speed.

A 5‑axis main spind­le and three addi­tio­nal mil­ling units on the same sup­port – this dis­tri­bu­tes the work in stair­ca­se con­s­truc­tion to spe­ci­fi­cal­ly desi­gned units, redu­ces tool chan­ge times and saves a total of 20 per­cent time. Like the gim­bal-moun­ted 5‑axis main spind­le, the units are moun­ted on the Y‑support.

Wort­mann Mas­siv­holz­trep­pen GmbH is a fle­xi­ble sup­pli­er for car­pen­ters and joi­n­ers. The Sau­er­land-based com­pa­ny reli­es on high-per­for­mance CNC tech­no­lo­gy and pro­vi­des its part­ners with com­pre­hen­si­ve sup­port from plan­ning to assem­bly. The five-axis machi­ning cen­ter Rei­chen­ba­cher “Visi­on” has been in use sin­ce 2013.