Cleaning Stations / Safety Gates / Working Tables

The combination of cleaning stations, locks, and work tables makes sense wherever high-quality components are manufactured with manual intervention, such as in the aviation, automotive, caravan, sports, or defense industries, as well as in metalworking and woodworking. The same applies everywhere: certain inspection steps, cleaning cycles, or layup work require trained personnel. Langzauner designs the interface between people and the automated system so that processes remain safe, ergonomic, and efficient.

Cleaning stations enable a continuous cleaning cycle for tools or components without blocking the main line. Deposits, residual material, or contamination are removed in a targeted manner before they lead to quality problems. In combination with random inspections, wear and process deviations can be detected early. The result is cleaner tools, more consistent surface quality, and higher repeat accuracy, important prerequisites for stable series processes in the composite and press environment.

You can make direct contact through the “Request information” form on the product page and select “Automation” as the area of interest. Brief information about tool sizes, cleaning requirements, the type of manual tasks, and desired ergonomic improvements is helpful. Langzauner analyzes your existing line and develops a concept for how cleaning stations, locks, and work tables can be optimally integrated or retrofitted, including a layout proposal, safety concept, and connection to existing automation.

In complex layup processes, fiber layers, inserts, or inlays must be positioned by hand. Langzauner work tables are automatically loaded, height-adjustable, and coordinated with tool handling for this purpose. Tools can be loaded in an ergonomically favorable way, visually inspected, and cleaned if necessary. The automated system then takes over again, for example by moving the tool into the press via locks or transfer axes. This keeps highly critical manual steps controllable without slowing the cycle of the overall system.

Cleaning stations, locks, and work tables are firmly integrated into Langzauner’s automation portfolio. Together with elements such as SRMs, high-bay warehouses, mold tool shuttle systems, material transfer, and robotics, they create a continuous material and tool flow. A higher-level control system coordinates these components so that parts automatically reach the right station, are prepared for manual steps, and are then integrated back into the automated process. This creates a turnkey, highly automated production line.