32 WET-COATING FACILITY FOR RAIL VEHICLES WEIGHING UP TO 20 TONS PLANT TECHNOLOGY Input and output stations, various preparation stations and putty cabins, free-blasting space, 2 robot-coating and 2 hand-coating cabins, 5 dryers MATERIAL FLOW SYSTEM Central transfer platform with pushing-off and pulling-on device on both sides and precise po- sitioning of the workpieces in the robot cabins 1 The 27.5m wide wagon transfer platform, which is 6 m long, serves a travel section of 90 m and can take workpieces weighing up to 20 t 2 Absolute value encoders placed on either side of the pit wall ensure controlled synchronicity of the two 5.5 kW travel drive units 1 2