COMBI – Combination of street → transfer → container → wagon
The production-oriented design process developed by BOXmover uses a special design principle to create a sheet metal-edge component that uses artificial intelligence to join together with other components in an assembly, allowing the manufacturing process to be dimensionally accurate, welding distortion-free and technically correct (practically error-free, even with a batch size of one), without having to rely on employees specially trained in the manufacture of the product.
A distinction is made between bodies for road equipment, ISO (ISO 668) / CSC containers, i.e. standardized standard loading units that are placed on the container pins and comply with international standards.
BOXmover also develops ILU loading units (intermodal loading units) in accordance with UIC 592, which use both container pins and situational supports.
All BOXmover developments are compatible with third-party equipment on road and rail, but in combination with BOXmover’s own developments (road or rail), additional functions (e.g. higher payload, easier operation, cheaper production, lower tare etc.) can be generated.
A special synergy can be generated between BOXmover superstructures and BOXmover BaseFrame. This combination generates the best customer benefit.
Consensus-oriented projects can cover priorities in different tasks
Production in customer workshop
The task is to use the production-oriented design principle to implement a steel vehicle frame in such a way that a local workshop can manufacture the entire steel structure on site without the need for special machines or trained specialist personnel. Furthermore, the work was to be carried out during off-peak periods, which posed a particular challenge for just-in-time delivery. It was therefore particularly important to design the components in such a way that they could be prepared using edge technology, but on the other hand only standardized rolled profiles should be used that could be obtained within hours. The design must ensure that the 21m-long steel frame construction also meets the required standards in terms of distortion and dimensional accuracy. The production-oriented design principle adapts the tolerances of the manufacturing process to the local conditions.
Cost-effective with manageable quantities
The development of a loading platform for vehicles with pneumatic tires based on the principle of production-oriented design aims to minimize production costs while maintaining project-related production batch sizes. The overhead costs for warehousing or prefabrication would be too high for conventional production to make the product economically viable.
The development effort is therefore twofold. On the one hand, the development aims to ensure that the loading platform can be used like an intermodal container on the carrier wagon, and on the other hand, the task is to minimize the production costs, including the special production costs, working hours for product changeover and material costs, thereby enabling the loading platform to be built in small series in Austria at competitive costs.
In the final stage of BOXmover’s production-oriented design and development tool, it will be possible to develop and design complex steel frame constructions in-house, which can no longer be distinguished from a conventionally developed component using current scientific methods and can completely dispense with the influence of trained personnel during production. We believe that this is the only way to counteract the shortage of skilled workers and the ever lower level of education in the population.