35 WORKPIECES Component parts up to 20 t (22 m x 2.4 m x 4 m) PERFORMANCE DATA Product carriers: Auxiliary wheel sets Throughput: 2 product carriers/h PROCESS TECHNOLOGY Eisenmann do Brasil RANDON, BRAZIL In the state of São Paolo, Brazilian manufacturer Randon constructed a 500-m-long combined welding, coating and assembly line for truck trailers and railway cars. For the individually cycled infeed, Vollert developed a heavy-load material flow concept made up of 13 combined wire rope drives for forwarding of the buggies to two distribution transfer platforms up- and downstream of the coating areas, and all the associated automation technology. 1 Instead of a single rope conveyor for the entire conveyor line, the use of an individual drive concept allows the individual retention times of workpieces at respective workstations 1 1 REFERENCE PROJECT