Bowmans Line 3
24T/hour - 110kg bale
Planning
To Balco, their standing in the market was very important, so from the very early stage of the design process, product presentation, product variety, product quality and reliability of supply were highlighted as driving forces.
All design decisions were made considering these factors. In a way the whole plant was designed by starting with the container packing and then working backwards to what varieties of packing arrangements were being considered and then looking at product grades, blending and de-contamination options.
From there we just had to decide what was the best equipment to meet that specification.
Co-operation
Given that Balco had an expectation of 6 months for the project's duration, the project required an extraordinary level of co-operation with the client and the manufacturing team.
Balco simplified this a lot by having a dedicated project manager who organised that people and information were freely at hand.
Fast Tools
While Technigraphica do have licenses and expertise in Inventor and Solidworks, the decision was made early to produce the drawing sets required in AutoCad Mechanical 3D Solids because of the sheer concepting speed that it avails.
Technigraphica have a lean system that allows us to process 1000's of dawings at astonishing pace and quality.
For Bowmans Line 3 our stats were 4600 drawings (including 3D Solid Model Design) produced in 5 months using an expanded team of 4 people.
