SYNOPTIK INSTALL WECO FINISHING SYSTEM

As recently featured in Optical World magazine the central finishing lab of Synoptik, Copenhagen has recently installed the latest and most advanced finishing equipment.  Three Weco 990 blockless fully automated finishing systems are linked together with a Weco OptoMove intelligent in-house logistic system.

Synoptik's Kåre Anshøj (right) launches the new WECO OptoMove transportation system watched by Matthias Neff and project manager Klaus Krengel, WECO Germany

This transportation system links the finishing units together, supplies new jobs to the machines and collects finished jobs back for assembling or shipping.

The Weco OptoMove is based on a monorail with self driving shuttles which are intelligent and programmable.  Every shuttle carries a single job.  The jobs are scanned at the beginning of the process to find the optimized finishing unit.  Weco LabControl software matches the profile of jobs and available workstations.  The result is programmed into the shuttle which then finds it's own way.

This new design for optical labs offers quiet operation, low power consumption and reduced maintenance.  A high degree of flexibility allows various solutions for all kinds of labs and for lens production.