Takt time reaches the door
Line-side and inter-shop openings sit inside the production cycle. A slow door becomes a constraint on the whole line.
Industry
Automotive
Line-side openings where a stopped door stops the line.
01Industry challenges
What makes these openings hard
Paint and weld shop separation
Fume, overspray and particulate have to be contained without stopping material moving between shops.
Heavy internal traffic
Tugs, forklifts and AGVs run continuously through the same openings, and the guides are in their path.
Large vehicle openings
Finished vehicle and component openings are wide, often external, and wind-loaded.
02Recommended solutions
Products specified for automotive
High Speed Doors
High Speed Self-Repairing Door
Flexible reinforced PVC curtain that leaves its guides on impact and re-enters them automatically, for openings where forklift contact is routine.
2 configurations
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High Speed Doors
High Speed Roll-Up Door
Flexible PVC curtain rolling onto a drum above the opening, up to 5,000 × 5,000 mm, opening at 0.8–2.5 m/s under PLC, inverter and encoder control.
3 configurations
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High Speed Doors
High Speed Rigid / Insulated Door
Double-skin insulated rigid panels up to 5,000 × 7,500 mm, opening at approximately 1.2–1.5 m/s under PLC, inverter and encoder control.
2 configurations
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Industrial Doors
Industrial Sectional Overhead Doors
Insulated sectional doors in aluminium or galvanized steel with a PUF core, 40–50 mm thick, spanning up to 10 m, in manual and motorised configurations.
6 configurations
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Automatic Gates
Automatic Sliding Gates
Motorised sliding gates for factory, warehouse and campus entrances, running on a floor track or cantilevered clear of the driveway.
2 configurations
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03Engineering considerations
What to settle before you order
- 01
Cycle time on line-side openings should be specified against takt, not against convenience.
- 02
Self-repairing doors pay for themselves where AGV and forklift routes pass close to the guides.
- 03
Wide external openings need wind class specified before curtain type is chosen.
- 04
Insulated panel doors hold a differential between shops that a fabric curtain will not.
- 05
Interlocking with plant control and traffic signalling should be agreed at design stage.
Typical applications
- Inter-shop openings
- Line-side and AGV routes
- Paint and weld shop separations
- Finished vehicle dispatch
- Plant perimeter gates
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Specifying for a automotive site?
Send the opening details and the constraint you are working against, and we will come back with a specification.